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  • Blue Star Mom

    OK this is an easy one, from Dan at NY GOE Kim Brubaker is a Blue Star Mom whose oldest kid is serving in the Army in Afghanistan. She is also a contestant in More Magazine's Beauty Search Contest sponsored by Olay & Covergirl. She is in fourth...

  • Cold War Victory Parade

    I like this angle quite a bit.It was a scene cut from Russia's Cold War nightmares: 71 Americans in dark blue dress uniforms carried the U.S. flag over the cobblestones, past the mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin and the towers of the Kremlin wall to salute...

  • Mullah Omar captured?

    You know the deal, if it ain't up at Long War Journal it's just talk. It would be lovely, but let's chill and see what turns up.

  • DADT statement from Milbloggers

    There was a recent exchange of letters between Sen. Levin and Sec. Def. Gates about the study the military is doing about Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In it Sec. Gates confirmed that the military was looking at how best to implement the policy on the...

  • The Russians Executed the Pirates

    Anyone from the Cold War era and anyone who knows Russians knows that the Ruskies (topped, whacked, shot, ganked, ghosted, iced, smoked, wasted) killed those Somali pirates...Ten pirates captured by the Russian navy last week near Somalia were put in...

  • Marinestan

    It is right and proper to love the Marine Corps.One unnamed Obama administration official was quoted by the Washington Post as saying, "We have better operational coherence with virtually all of our NATO allies than we have with the U.S. Marine Corps...
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  • Weapon carry status in Afghanistan

    There has been a lot of talk about weapons carry status for our troops in Afghanistan and whether they are being told to carry in amber status i.e. no round in the chamber. I asked ISAF HQ and got the following response. Jim, Headquarters ISAF, the ISAF...

  • Michael Caine on how to save England

    Michael Caine has a new movie out called Harry Brown about a crusty old Brit who has had enough of the drugged-out violence and starts whacking bad guys. Unsurprisingly he has caught a fair ration of shite about that from the same weak-kneed, spineless...

  • Chicago cop & Iraq war vet killed....in Chicago

    This is just sad. A Chicago police officer who had just come back from a tour in Iraq gets shot and killed outside his own house. A 30-year-old Chicago police officer who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq was shot and killed when several people...

  • How To Kill Our Soldiers......

    By using neglect, disrespect, complacency and PC Bovine Scatology.... First I hear about medals for "not shooting" and now I read about this... Commanders have ordered a U.S. military unit in Afghanistan to patrol with unloaded weapons, according...

  • Sestak and Core Values

    Adding to the dogpile, I wrote this little piece for the American Security Council Foundation website a month or two ago. Representative Sestak's win in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania for the senate seat up for grabs this November has brought...

  • American exceptionalism on the battlefield

    Lt. Col. Oliver North reminds us why American fighting man (or woman) is the best the world has to offer. Ever heard of a Hamas/Taliban/al Qaeda/Hizballah fighter treat a wounded enemy soldier, then carry him from the battlefield? If they do grab one...
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  • Michael Yon and the cards he has dealt

    Mike Yon has apparently taken some time in Thailand to address what I wrote about his exit from Afghanistan. Though I am working on Afghanistan dispatches, during breaks over the next days I will address some those who took part in the blog lynch mob...

  • The Battle of Another Gun...

    Let me start out this post by just saying this. Never, not once, dirty, clean, dusty, snowy, muddy, wet or dry did my M-4 fail to go "BOOM" when I pressed the "BOOM" switch. It never jammed, double fed, stove piped or just went "CLICK...

  • The Man Who Would Be King

    In this Wednesday, April 28, 2010 photo, U.S. Army Capt. Casey Thoreen, second from left, of Seattle, Wash., Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade, talks with village leaders before the start of a shura , in the Maiwand...
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