June 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

South Carolina stands up Counterterrorism Advisory Team

From NavySEALs.com: The Joint Services Detachment (JSD) of the South Carolina Military Department (SCMD) has established a Counterterrorism Advisory Team, a 10-plus member council composed of nationally recognized military, counterterrorism, and intelligence...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 12:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Flotilla fallout - Some questions and some things to think about

As this story about the so-called "Freedom flotilla" and the Israeli raid continues to unfold, all sorts of questions come to mind. What is up with Turkey and why are they keeping this so hot? It's prime minister has recently said: "Now...

Published Wed, Jun 02 2010 1:39 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Amber Status in AFghanistan

RE: Rules of Engagement and Weapon Status Jeffrey Schogol who writes the Rumor Doctor column for the Stars & Stripes followed up on one soldier's claim that his unit was dismounted patrolling in Amber (no round chambered): ...The Rumor Doctor...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 6:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

British Airways First Class Terrorist

Below is a cover of a recent London Heathrow airport magazine with a British Airways agent and happy iPhone customer on the cover: You probably don't notice the actual ticket data unless you look really close. The sample ticket included Bin Laden's...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 3:55 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Very Interesting...

I've been reading at Cassy Fiano's place, and on some of the news outlets, about a couple trying to enter McDill. I am truly shocked that Eric Holder or the FBI rush to deny it was terrorism even before anything was known (as usual). That said...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 5:25 AM by BLACKFIVE

War and Remembrance

Mary Katharine Ham recently took a trip to Iraq along w/ ret. COL Tom Manion who went there to meet some Iraqis who his son 1LT Travis Manion had trained. Unfortunately Travis caught a sniper round while pulling some other Marines to safety, but as the...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 12:49 AM by BLACKFIVE

Deadly 4G phone claims 3 more scalps

My ruthless 4G EVO phone, who likes to be known as Uphonious Junk and I will refer to as UJ(p) so as not to confuse, has been at it again in North Waziristan. Four more dead tangos chalked up to the most deadly mobile communications device in the world...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 2:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Happy Birthday to the US Army

235 years young and hardly looks a day over two centuries. I have said before that our military is one of the great forces for good ever on this planet and the Army has a huge role in that. A big Hooah to all those wearing the uniform now and to those...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 3:17 AM by BLACKFIVE

The DISCLOSE Act & the 1st and 2nd Amendments

A disgraceful piece of legislation, the DISCLOSE Act, passed the House yesterday, hopefully it will die in the Senate but the fact that it is in play shows just how far down the hole our government has gone. This steaming pile of censorship makes sure...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 2:25 AM by BLACKFIVE

Ideologues and COIN

Crush points out, while nodding sagely in agreement, a piece by COL Gian Gentile bemoaning the idea that an insurgency should be fought using a counterinsurgency strategy. I think it bears a look at COL Gentile and his deep and abiding distaste for COIN...

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 1:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Afghanistan Policy Review

It has become increasingly clear to me that we have a failure of leadership in Afghanistan. Obama has failed by not articulating to us, and to the military, what his desired end state should look like. A democratic state with equal rights for women? One...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 8:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

And Who Thought This Would Be A Good Idea?

The news this morning is that General McChrystal has both issued a preemptory apology for a forthcoming article/interview in Rolling Stone Magazine, and that he has been recalled from Afghanistan -- apparently because of what is being reported may be...

Published Mon, Jun 21 2010 10:53 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Stan the Man

After reading McQ's post, LW's post, the Mudville Gazette and most importantly COB6's post at the Farm Team's place, I was going to write about how light I thought GEN McChrystal's comments to be...but Grim, as usual, got ahead of...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 2:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Rolling Stone violated interview rules

Shocked, shocked I say. The dirty, nasty, patchouli-smelling, hippie freelancer for Rolling Stone violated the off the record rules to report any dirt he found. "Many of the sessions were off-the-record and intended to give [reporter Michael Hastings...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 10:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

So what's going to change in Afghanistan?

On Wednesday, I received an email from one of my former soldiers in the 101st in Afghanistan who wanted to know, if GEN McChrystal was fired (2) who was his replacement and (3) what would change in Afghanistan. My response was (1) his resignation was...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 12:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

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South Carolina stands up Counterterrorism Advisory Team

Flotilla fallout - Some questions and some things to think about

Amber Status in AFghanistan

British Airways First Class Terrorist

Very Interesting...

War and Remembrance

Deadly 4G phone claims 3 more scalps

Happy Birthday to the US Army

The DISCLOSE Act & the 1st and 2nd Amendments

Ideologues and COIN

Afghanistan Policy Review

And Who Thought This Would Be A Good Idea?

Stan the Man

Rolling Stone violated interview rules

So what's going to change in Afghanistan?