July 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Battlefield Information - Wikileaks, the Military, and the Truth

Noah Shachtman has a piece up at the Wall Street Journal about the Wikileaks reports. Shachtman was embedded with a unit last summer that was in a firefight that shows up in the leaked battlefield reports: Echo company got into a gunfight last Aug. 25...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 12:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

Congratulations Rear Adm. Tyson

Here's a "first" worthy of note: Rear Adm. Nora Tyson will become the first woman to take command of a carrier strike group in a ceremony Thursday aboard the carrier George H.W. Bush at Norfolk Naval Station. Tyson will assume command of...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 11:22 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Strategy Room video

Here is the video from the FOX segment I did this morning on Strategy Room which is their live online show. Harris Faulkner was the host and I liked the feel of the show, a little less stuffy maybe and more freewheeling, pus the segments are longer. And...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 4:19 AM by BLACKFIVE

Trip to the Mountains

10th Mountain, that is. Recently I had some time to head off on my cycle and enjoy what Colorado has to see on a nice ride. I had planned a long route to take in all of the best of Colorado, from Aspen to Telluride to Steamboat, but had to cut the trip...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 2:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Travel

Talking WikiWankers on FOX

I'll be on FOX News Strategy Room 9:45 am Tuesday to talk about the WikiWeasels. Smart money says Julian Ass-Flange gets called a jackwagon.

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 8:14 AM by BLACKFIVE

Julian Assange's internal monologue

oh yes I'm back oh yes I am. in the spotlight. look at me. look at me. no, don't look at me. stop. seriously. okay now: look at me again, look at me now, look at me forever. i am gorgeous. unreal how bloody beautiful i am, it were as if i was...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 7:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Some guys you just can't blow up

I love Marines and think everyone should have a squad or two. Here is one reason why. Lance Cpl. Edgar Jones, a combat engineer with the squad, found a pressure plate inside the compound and hollered to Garst, asking what he should do with it. Garst turned...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 7:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

ROE working & WikiLeaks still wanking

Here is a video on the topic of our ROE in Afghanistan. I would ask that the 91% who voted in Crush's poll saying they are too restrictive take another look at them. The idea has never been to show weakness or shrink from a fight we know we could...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 4:08 AM by BLACKFIVE

Wikileaks working with the New York Times

Is this Wikileaks parting shot? Reports: Leaked records show unreported Afghan deaths http://usat.me?39421438 Posted via email from blackfive's posterous

Published Sun, Jul 25 2010 1:36 PM by BLACKFIVE

Dead Tangos in Waziristan

Looks like the world's deadliest mobile communications device UJp has been at it again. The US carried out just its second Predator strike in Pakistan this month, killing 16 Taliban fighters in an attack on a Taliban compound in South Waziristan....

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 5:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Westboro Church beautifully punked

The ass clowns of Fred Phelps Westboro Church decided to protest at Comic Con in Vegas. The conventioneers counter-protested brilliantly. Short of lightning bolts smiting these scum, this was about as good as it gets.

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 4:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

Canadian Jet Crash Yesterday

From reader Steve G: Here is a video of a Canadian CF-18 fighter jet crashing Friday during practice for an air show in Alberta. Apparently, he lost his right engine at slow speed and very low altitude, stalled out, and planted it on the airfield in a...

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 4:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

US troops captured in Afghanistan?

This doesn't sound good at all. KABUL -- Two American soldiers went missing after driving off their base in Kabul on Friday afternoon, and the Taliban later claimed to have captured them in eastern Afghanistan, NATO officials said Saturday, the same...

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 3:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

360 Days At War

Must read for the day: Homecoming

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 1:17 AM by BLACKFIVE

Good Luck, General McChrystal

“In fact, over the past decade, arguably no single American has inflicted more fear, more loss of freedom and more loss of life on our country's most vicious and violent enemies than Stan McChrystal." - Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense. This...

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 1:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

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