July 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

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

Mark Shields: America needs more Marine Corps values

Yer Damn Skippy we do. Here is a great piece that extols the fact that the values America needs most are beautifully embodied in the Corps and the rest of our military. The Marine ethic emphasizes responsibility to duty and responsibility to others before...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 4:16 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

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

4th of July in Afghanistan

In case you wondered what the 4th was like in the Stan, Brian from the 1st of the 503rd sends some pics. Celebrating w/ a tasty beverage. Look they are at a water park. Awesome fireworks too. Drive on guys and continue w/ your airborne mission. Blue skies...

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 1:50 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

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

Suicide attacks in Afghanistan & Pakistan

The suicide civilian slaughtering season is in full effect and the barbaric extremists we are fighting show their true colors again with two attacks against innocents. One against a civilian aid organization, heaven or Allah forbid we try to make Afghanistan...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 2:45 AM by BLACKFIVE

A Wonderful 4th

It is unfortunately easy these days to get to the point where you don't think much of people as a whole. The 4th of July reminded me yesterday that such is not true, and that there are so many good people out there it isn't funny. It's damn...

Published Sun, Jul 04 2010 10:17 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Leap

A U.S. Marine with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7 patrols back to Patrol Base Gorgak after a controlled detonation of an improvised explosive device in Garmsir, Afghanistan, on July 5, 2010. When found improvised...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 6:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

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

Corruption and Culture II: Beating the Drum

We had a Blogger's Roundtable with Army Captain Heather Coyne, the NGO and International Organization liaison for NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan. A reservist, CPT Coyne in her civilian job works for the US Institute of Peace. CPT Coyne spoke...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 2:45 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs

Dealing with Julian Assange

It occurs to me that the best thing the military could do toward marginalizing Wikileaks is to just let Julian Assange do his thing. The more people see of him, the less likely they will be to uncritically accept his next Collateral Murder video. Case...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 8:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

WH Press Briefing- Top Secret means Top Secret

I posted this over at Big Peace but since it is an ongoing series here I wanted a copy on our servers. I think some of the hype over whether this compromises classified information may have been overblown. That said, I don't think it really added...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 3:39 AM by BLACKFIVE

Big Peace launches

Today seems like a very fitting time for the launch of the latest addition to the Breitbart empire, Big Peace. In the tradition of the other Big sites, Big Peace will serve as an alternative to the usual coverage of national security. There is much about...

Published Sun, Jul 04 2010 12:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

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