March 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Recondo history

The Center for American Military History is seeking input from members of the veteran community. The project has built an online encyclopedia that focuses solely on preserving U.S. military history, on the same platform as Wikipedia. One of the trial...

Published Sat, Mar 26 2011 12:05 PM by BLACKFIVE

Charlie Sheen strategy in Afghanistan

Good lord there are far too many dim-witted buffoons in Congress to actually catalog, but Rep. Lynne Woolsey wins the Daily Douchebag award for this asininity. "General Petraeus is giving us the Charlie Sheen counter-insurgency strategy, which is...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 4:52 AM by BLACKFIVE

Pirates as plunder

We have been letting the pirates run the ocean for too damn long. Our occasional feats of brilliance, like when the SEALs wished the Maersk hijackers a Happy Easter, are brutally overshadowed by episodes like the recent slaughter of four Americans while...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2011 1:13 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: 1 Post That Started It All

Giving the Islamists some rope

It looks like the Islamists in several of the Middle Eastern countries are rearing their heads. Shocker, I know. The Muslim Brotherhood is on the rise in Egypt and lo and behold some of our rebels in Libya, who we are not supporting, happen to be AQ and...

Published Sat, Mar 26 2011 1:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

The GI Bill and IAVA

RE: Parsing IAVA (October 8, 2008) RE: IAVA Ties to Obama Campaign (October 8, 2008) RE: IAVA Returns Fire (October 8, 2008) RE: Obama Operatives or Straight Shooters? [IAVA and the Obama Campaign] (October 10, 2008) RE: IAVA & the Obama [podcast...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2011 11:31 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

MUST READ of the DAY - Sergeant JD Williams - SYSK Follow Up

Remember this story about the soldier who was glad he stepped on the IED so that none of his brothers were the ones to be hurt? Soldiers' Angels Germany has a MUST READ follow up. Go now. Read it. And be humbled and thankful that this country, after...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 1:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Hmmmm.... On Second Thought....

Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama.... "The President does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." --Barack Obama...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2011 3:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Good Hunting

More and more I find myself writing positive things about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has come through once again. Only last week we were faced with the sorrowful spectacle of an America standing by while a tyrant crushed a revolt by people...

Published Sat, Mar 19 2011 7:39 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs

The Kindergartener and her Marine Brother

Dan S sends us this story... 5 year-old Norah Swartz is in Ms. Hannahoe's kindergarten class at Enfield Elementary School. Norah is the "Spotlight Student of the Month." As the spotlight student, she had to get up in front of her class and...

Published Wed, Mar 09 2011 12:10 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

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

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

Glad The Brits are Doing Something about Libya...

Tantor sends us this article about the SAS, who've been busy rescuing Brits, going after Qaddafi's chemical weapons... ...American sources have disclosed that the SAS is likely to be called upon to secure up to 10 tons of mustard gas and sarin...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 3:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

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

Keeping Leathernecks warm

Literally their necks and heads, from some good folks in Nebraska. Marine Customers at Prairie Hand Knits, 111 East Fifth Street, have been making caps and cowls for soldiers. My customers kept talking about wanting to do something for service men and...

Published Sun, Mar 13 2011 9:19 AM by BLACKFIVE

PFC Charles Pfeiffer - Someone You Should Know

I liked this short video of Pfc. Charles Pfeiffer, SAW Gunner with the 1-27 Infantry Regiment, pulling security during an Iraqi Olive Press opening in Salah Ad Din. Makes me miss my pig, Betty (M60). [Produced by Sgt. Brad Baker.]

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 3:13 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Video Channels, Someone You Should Know

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