June 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Meet the new Therapist

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 6:52 AM by BLACKFIVE

Image of the Day: Corsair's close air support during Korean War Korea: UN denies N.Korean charges of bringing heavy weapons into DMZ Japan PM urges China to slam S.Korean ship sinking U.S./S.Korea delay joint drills for third time while China commences...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 3:17 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

CIA doctors violated Nuremberg Code?

Good Lord these people are relentless. Based on zero new evidence, simply their own interpretation of memos about the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques a group of doctors is accusing the CIA doctors who supervised the program of essentially...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 1:36 AM by BLACKFIVE

Someone Broke The Rules - THAT Broke McCrystal

It's been a long time since I've posted, but given recent events, I must come back online and throw in (throw down?). With McCrystal likely going to resign this week (we are still working to confirm the UK's Telegraph article) or be kicked...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 8:10 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders, Bust Their Chops, Weblogs

JD leaves the plastic world for the Stan

JD Johannes is back in Afghanistan and will soon be letting us see some of what is going on there. He will be taking a different approach this time and I had a chance to discuss this with him the last time he was in DC. I think it will be very interesting...

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 2:48 AM by BLACKFIVE

Gunslingin' near Castle Rock, CO

Had a great time on Saturday out on the ranch of one of the guys I'm working with out here, who is also a buddy of The Wolf. He has 30 acres w/ several mules who retired from the Grand Canyon gig. We killed all kinds of little steel animals and spinners...

Published Sun, Jun 20 2010 8:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

British Lieutenant Henry Charles Albert David Wales

Otherwise known as Prince Harry... I saw on the news last night that the press was reporting on Prince Harry's toughness for continuing to play polo after taking a nasty fall. However, they really should have followed the AP's lead and reported...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 12:53 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

British Sniper Rifle

OK another odd request, but all will become clear later in the month. A while back a British Sniper made the current longest kill at about 1.5 miles. He did so with this gun: The L115A3 rifle was first deployed to Afghanistan in May 2008.The MOD claims...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 4:51 AM by BLACKFIVE

Tim Kennedy Fight Update

UJ's phone, while making him a bacon sandwich, called to let me know that Tim's fight is at 11 Eastern/8 Pacific on Showtime tonight. Posted via email from blackfive's posterous

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 9:53 AM by BLACKFIVE

Roundtable: Corruption and Culture

We spoke with Major General Mike Ward about efforts to develop the Afghan police. (Transcript here.) It was an interesting conversation, because it points at one of the trickiest aspects for Western powers operating in a traditional culture: our tendency...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 12:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs

What Are You Doing On The 4th?

Don't know about you, but I plan on spending a little bit of time with this man. Mark is doing a 24-hour vigil both to honor the fallen and to raise funds and supplies for a small thing in Germany. Greta has the full story on him, and as usual, it's...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 10:27 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Emasculated ROE will likely continue under Petraeus

While some here maintain that McChrystal's emasculated ROE are the "right rules," I would like to hear how the Karzai 12 have made any positive contribution to the war. If I was in command, and my subordinates translated my directives in...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 4:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Tips for Vets returning to College

Operator Dan over at This Ain't Hell has some good tips on using your benefits and how to avoid some of the typical VA nightmares.

Published Wed, Jun 02 2010 12:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Max Blumenthal- Juicebox Mafia calling who liars?

I have another juiceboxer who wants to run his cakehole to demonstrate to the world just what an ill-informed wanker he is. Max Blumenthal, who is particularly unimpressive even for a JM member, is mouthing off about an audio tape the Israelis released...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 4:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Great news!

If you act immediately, the Google Ad on the right sidebar has a great deal on "Morocco Foreign Policy." Having just paid full price, I was somewhat disappointed. But if you procrastinated on purchasing your foreign policy, you can save something...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 1:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Humor

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Meet the new Therapist

Daily Brief 30 Jun 2010

CIA doctors violated Nuremberg Code?

Someone Broke The Rules - THAT Broke McCrystal

JD leaves the plastic world for the Stan

Gunslingin' near Castle Rock, CO

British Lieutenant Henry Charles Albert David Wales

British Sniper Rifle

Tim Kennedy Fight Update

Roundtable: Corruption and Culture

What Are You Doing On The 4th?

Emasculated ROE will likely continue under Petraeus

Tips for Vets returning to College

Max Blumenthal- Juicebox Mafia calling who liars?

Great news!