July 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Medal of Honor history: Modrzejewski and Pope

44 years ago, Capt. Robert J. Modrzejewski and his men of Company K, Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, THIRD Marine Division were inserted by helicopter into an enemy-infested jungle near the De-Militarized Zone. Their mission was to set up a blocking...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 4:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

More Mullah Omar

Brad Thor reports over at Big Peace that Afghan and Pakistani media have begun picking up the story he broke and we confirmed, that Mullah Omar is in Pakistani custody.

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 4:48 AM by BLACKFIVE

Hero

No other word describes US Marine Corporal Larry Harris..."It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." -- General George Patton

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 6:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

Drugs, not Islam, the motivating factor in Afghanistan

Below is anonymous email from a Marine in Afghanistan: ...This place is definitely different from Iraq in a lot of ways. The only similarities of note are that our specific location here is also in the middle of the desert (an environment similar to 29...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 1:08 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

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

A double dip of sweetness & light

Two feelgood stories for you. First a couple who both fly for Uncle Sugar join the mechanical mile high club. Air Force Capt. Christine McLean pilots a refueling plane and Navy Lt. Jeff McLean flies an F/A-18 Super Hornet. After Christine McLean was deployed...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 6:55 AM by BLACKFIVE

Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume...

Published Sat, Jul 03 2010 8:14 PM by BLACKFIVE

Bill Ardolino in Afghanistan

Our friend, Bill Ardolino (who used to write the excellent blog, INDC), is in Afghanistan and embedded with the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines. He's posted up a photo essay at the Long War Journal (click here for a slide show). Here's a sample photo...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 4:46 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

JD w/ the Zombie Killers

No seriously, he is. That is what an Afghan Army training and validation team calls themselves. Check him out. My tour guides were the Validation Transition Team Kabul and VTT 201. The latter going by the nickname 'Zombie Killers' for their firm...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 12:19 AM by BLACKFIVE

JD Johannes on the Iranian border

Intrepid war correspondent JD Johannes is making his way all over Iraq and now is near the border w/ Iran. In the 1980s Iran and Iraq fought to a bloody stalemate on a thin strip of desert over access to a waterway, the Shatt al Arab, that had been in...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 3:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

The Internationals

...John Adams described the goals of 1776 as “objects of the most stupendous magnitude … in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested….” Unlike the doomed men of the 1930s, the internationals of the American revolution...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 3:48 AM by BLACKFIVE

USMC Training Video

Interesting stuff they're doing out at 29 Palms.

Published Sun, Jul 11 2010 7:47 AM by BLACKFIVE

Wayne A. Downing Scholarship Program

The late GEN Wayne A. Downing was a tremendous man, a patriot and a leader in developing the military we have today. It strikes me as highly appropriate that he is being honored with the following scholarship opportunity for serving military officers...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 1:55 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Fallen But Never Forgotten

Justice Department not in charge of CIA interrogation techniques

There is quite a lot of hyperventilation going on today about some testimony from one of the Justice Department lawyers Jay Bybee who wrote the so-called "torture memos". Apparently some of the techniques the CIA used were not included in these...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 3:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

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