October 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Fitness Challenge: Guest Post #1 Up

A guest post, the first of what we hope will be several such, is up from the team at Club Newtone over at my site. This is not an event with categories and prizes (I wish we could give some), but the real prize is how much better you can feel for taking...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 9:34 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Has North Korean succession been settled?

The answer to that question is “probably.” That’s a step up from “possibly.” But in the Hermit Kingdom, nothing is really ever certain. The recent late night announcement by Kim Jong-Il of the promotion of his third son, Kim Jong-un to the rank of general...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 12:33 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Journey to Freedom

The good media folks at Fort Leavenworth sent this video to me. MAJ Lan Dalat, a military officer student currently attending the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, and his brother, Anthony Lang who works at the college, are Vietnamese...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 3:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Karzai and Obama looking at exit strategy for A-Stan

They are not working all that well together on this, but both Obama and Karzai are pretty sure this is our last year of major kinetic operations in Afghanistan. Taliban representatives and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun secret...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 1:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

Knob Creek machine gun shoot

The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot is this weekend in Kentucky. If you don't know about this event, check it out. I went when I lived in Louisville and it was the most fun you could have short of being an A team in Thailand on an unrestricted range...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 1:03 AM by BLACKFIVE

Remembering Robbie Miller

RE: The post below about the actions and life of Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Troy Steward, over at Bouhammer, has posted a tribute by one of Robbie's friends from Special Forces.

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 12:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Robbie Miller Awarded the Medal of Honor - SYSK Follow Up

RE: SSG Robert Miller - Someone You Should Have Known (Blackfive, February 5th, 2008) RE: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Official US Army Site (US Army, October 5th, 2010) Photos courtesy of the Miller family and the US Army From an excellent article...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 4:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Fallen But Never Forgotten, Someone You Should Know

Diversity on Campus

At the NY Post, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) has a column about ROTC on campus. Here's a taste: ...Although Harvard expelled ROTC over the Vietnam War four decades ago (after antiwar students burned down the ROTC center), it now gives as a reason...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 1:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Killing Germans in Pakistan or anywhere else

This really shouldn't be all that surprising. The bad guys we have been turning into stains all over the Pakistani border areas have passports from just about every breeding swamp filled with the foul miasma of Wahabbist hate preaching. Wow, I got...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 12:47 AM by BLACKFIVE

Doing Some Good

Here's some ways you can do some no-cost/low-cost good in the world. First, I met Gina Elise several years ago and she is even nicer than you would expect. Her project is now in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Go vote for her. Second, send some prayers...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 10:17 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Speaking of Pakistan taking our aid but denying our supply convoys...

Here's the Executive Summary of Team Rubicon's operation in Pakistan to provide relief in remote areas of Pakistan, the-country-that-is-accepting-our-massive-flood-relief-aid-but-blocking-our-convoys-from-crossing-into-Afghanistan-so-they-will...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 3:39 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Team Rubicon

The Terror Alert in France

Go over to this post by Jonn Lilyea at This Ain't Hell. The last line is a snorter...and if you are a certain retired General now high up in the Obama Administration, DO NOT READ THAT POST.

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 3:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Ft. Hood soldiers ordered to disclose private weapons, placed on watch list

Last week, Bob Unruh at World Net Daily reported that Fort Hood soldiers were told to list their privately-owned firearms stored off post, including the make, model, serial number, and the location of the firearms. Those soldiers with weapons were reportedly...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 3:28 AM by BLACKFIVE

Second Supply Convoy Attacked in Pakistan - Our Flood Relief Packages Somehow Not Attacked

Pakistan is denying access of our supply convoys in a reaction to the alledged accidental killing of three border guards in an air strike to take out Taliban mortar teams firing on our positions in Afghanistan. The consequences are that the bottled up...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 2:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Picture of the Week, Bust Their Chops

Defense Spending Perspective

In the WSJ, there's a piece by Arthur C. Brooks, Edwin J. Feulner and William Kristol on Defense spending: ...In his Aug. 31 speech announcing the end of "combat operations" in Iraq, President Obama argued that the military efforts the nation...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 1:40 AM by BLACKFIVE

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