March 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Supreme Court Rules in favor of Westboro Military Funeral Protestors

"Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and– as it did here– inflict great pain. On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker." Chief Justice of the Supreme...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2011 11:31 PM by BLACKFIVE

Religion of Peace Strikes again...

I know, I know, once again, it's those pesky Catholics Hindus Jews Buddhists Zoroastrians Rastafarians Scientologists Tenris Confucians Unitarians members of the religion of peace: Gunman Shouting 'Allah Akbar' Kills 2 US Airmen in Germany...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 5:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Muslims miss their own rally

One of the bigger Islamist clowns, Anjem Choudary from the UK, was supposed to bring his traveling goat rape rope to Obama Town today. Our team got ready to repel boarders and I was anticipating a rowdy fiesta. Well I got the fiesta, but it wasn't...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 5:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Missing the point....as usual

So the NY Times had Alessandra Stanley review a new show called "Coming Home" about military folks surprising their kids by showing up unannounced. Only a liberal douche could find this to be wrong, and Stanley is exactly that hag. Surprise...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2011 9:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

When they love us

It is such a common thing to hear complaints about the military and the US pushing people around. But the one time everyone manages to love us is when we show up at a natural disaster. The people of Japan just took a horrific blow and all decent people...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 1:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

Lying about the little leaker

Poor Bradley Manning is being tortured and enduring conditions that make Abu Ghraib and Gitmo look like day care centers; I'm sure you've heard. Well actually, he is being held in pre-trial confinement and because of certain things he has said...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 10:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

SFC Chad Lawson - Someone You Should Know

While on a visit to see and hear what is operationally & strategically important in Regional Command South General David Petraeus made time to present the Silver Star to Special Forces Soldier Sergeant First Class Chad E. Lawson of Cincinnati, Ohio...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 12:37 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

The Un-Named - Someone You Should Know [But Never Will]

A Bronze Star Medal with Valor hangs from the pocket of a U.S. Air Force JTAC assigned to the Special Operations Task Force – North, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula. Photo by Staff Sgt. Jim Wilt. I wrote a post about losing...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 12:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

The US Marine Corps Force Structure Review

Here is the just published USMC's review of their force structure for missions beyond/after Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). You can "right click" and "save as": Download ForceStructureReview.pdf (2686.4K) Read it. Discuss...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 5:58 AM by BLACKFIVE

Civil War

In the words of that timeless philosopher Axl Rose. "What's so civil about war anyway?" "My hands are tied For all I've seen has changed my mind But still the wars go on as the years go by With no love of God or human rights 'Cause...

Published Fri, Mar 18 2011 2:37 AM by BLACKFIVE

Honoring WWI Troops Via Frank Buckles

It should be a no-brainer, but given that this is Congress we are talking about, it is no surprise that they can't muster two neurons to form a synapse. I could go on, but Jonn at This Ain't Hell covers it very well here and here. To the so-called...

Published Sun, Mar 06 2011 8:33 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Are Egyptian commandos operating in Libya?

An interesting little tidbit to pass along from the Strategy Page (along with the 700th different spelling of his Gadaffi’s last name): The rebellion against the Kadaffi dictatorship in Libya has not produced any official outside help, but Egypt has apparently...

Published Mon, Mar 07 2011 12:25 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

How about an "I wouldn't fly there" zone?

There are all kinds of folks trying to say it is way too hard to set up a no fly zone in Libya. Most of it is just blowing smoke, but let's point out that the goal doesn't have to be to blanket the country with an aerial spiderweb so nothing can...

Published Tue, Mar 08 2011 3:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Our defense strategy

I know it can be tough to try and define a US defense strategy these days, but Sec. Gates is trying and in the course of making his last speeches to the military academies he seems to be debating himself. I have an Op-Ed about this in the Washington Times...

Published Tue, Mar 08 2011 11:19 PM by BLACKFIVE

SEAL Training

Here's a part 5 of 8 video about SEAL training. At about the four minute mark, they start doing airborne operations... Go here for more SEAL action.

Published Wed, Mar 09 2011 1:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Video Channels

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