January 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Is That Your Middle Finger???

I really have to stop cruising the internet while eating pastries. I finally got the donut cleaned off of my computer (sticking with the cop theme) and get to dish on the unbelievable stupidity I found that Andrew Breitbart had over at Big Peace. Let...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 2:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Dumb and dumber

Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist Army psychiatrist who killed 13 and wounded 32 soldiers and civilians in November 2009, is awaiting the results of a mental health exam that will determine whether he is fit to stand trial. Not to jump to conclusions–as...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 1:36 AM by BLACKFIVE

Team Rubicon video

The folks from Team Rubicon are gearing up for a mission to help beat back the cholera epidemic in Haiti. They are as good a choice as any to take that on. Here is some of their previous activity. Team Rubicon Video from TEAM RUBICON on Vimeo.

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 12:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

The President got punked

Obama likes to think his good intentions and a winning smile will see him triumph diplomatically. Apparently he forgot to clue his piano player in. WASHINGTON -- Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang gave a musical shout out to America-hating patriots in his...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 12:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Book Review- Black Wolf

Elise Cooper for BLACKFIVE Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice co-authored a series of thrillers involving the “Dreamland” characters. Their latest book, Black Wolf, has some of the Dreamland team becoming part of a new “Whiplash” group. While Dreamland was more...

Published Sun, Jan 23 2011 10:08 AM by BLACKFIVE

And the Winner is........

The referee stopped this bout midway through the first round when Mr. Yon not only failed to defend himself, but joined in beating himself senseless. The winner of the Internet Beat Down and still the undisputed champion of online snark, hyperbolic rhetoric...

Published Sun, Jan 23 2011 3:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Jimbo in Combat

Australia's SAS Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith is Someone You Should Sort Of Know

Australia recently awarded the Victoria Cross to a Special Air Service (SAS)Corporal known to us only as Ben to protect his identity as he is still operational. "Ben" is legendary among the special operations community (already decorated for...

Published Sun, Jan 23 2011 12:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

In Praise of USAID

Among the many spending cut ideas that the Republican House has come up with lately is a proposal to largely eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is one of the most effective tools that we have in foreign policy...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 3:13 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

UFC- Fight for the Troops

This is just exactly what we are all about. Some mayhem in the cage and for an awesome cause. UFC- Fight for the troops. Spike assumes its fans are illiterate, so there is no text I can copy to tell you about the bouts, just a lot of flashing garbage...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 8:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

Another member of Easy Company joins the eternal Band of Brothers

Recently we lost MAJ *** Winters, former CO of Easy Company, 2nd Bn, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division of “Band of Brothers” fame. Today we learn Ed Mauser has gone to join him. A member of the "Band of Brothers" who fought in some of...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 7:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

The Last SpiderBender

The Last SpiderBender A cautionary tale about the dark side of Public Affairs. Screenplay by Uncle Jimbo, disgraced internet pundit & Michael Yawn, the greatest war correspondent in his own mind the world A giant shout of AHA! reverberates from a...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 6:37 AM by BLACKFIVE

A Distinguished Service Cross & another 173rd paratrooper

Tomorrow we will award the second highest military honor to a member of the 2nd of the 503rd, as usual Tanker Babe has the story. On November 9, 2007 SGT Takes (his rank at the time) was a Team Leader in Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 10:49 AM by BLACKFIVE

Behind the "Uncle Jimbo in combat" series

For those of you wondering why there is a spate of examples of my martial glory adorning the pages of BLACKFIVE, you can thank Michael Yon. His cones are all chafed that I have been commenting all over the media about wimmen in combat, and he thinks I...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 8:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Jimbo in Combat - Outer-space

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 7:25 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Military Humor, Jimbo in Combat, Photoshop

Jimbo In Combat - Little Big Horn