April 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Milbloggies voting

The annual Milbloggies voting is underway and I strong suggest you head over and vote for Susan Katz Keating for Best US Reporter blog.

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 2:08 AM by BLACKFIVE

Mark Steyn is brilliant, witty and incisive, that is factual. But I think he is ignoring realities in the course of making a funny with this. Question: Which of these is David Petraeus, four-star general and commander, US forces Afghanistan? And which...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2011 2:08 AM by BLACKFIVE

For the Love of Rugby...Stephen Ellis - Someone You Should Know

A soldier who served in Iraq is part of a legendary rugby family...when he is severely burned in a freak accident...even if you don't like rugby, this is one helluva story about family and soldiers and perseverance. Go read this piece about Stephen...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 3:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Easter Uprisings

Our friend Carl Prine has a good piece up today, comparing St. Paul to Gerald Templer of the Malay counterinsurgency. (Hat tip: Small Wars Journal.) My compliments, but I wonder if he has thought through the question with which he ends. On this Easter...

Published Sun, Apr 24 2011 3:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Religion

Japanese Reactor(s) Update(d) Yet Again

See updates and comments below for a lot of good information, important updates, and discussion. And big thanks to Instapundit for the Installanche! ***** This post is continuing to be updated (and bumped) as needed, and I strongly urge readers to go...

Published Sat, Apr 02 2011 9:40 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Fukushima Dai-ini, Fukushima Daiini, tsunami, Fukushima, earthquake, nuclear, IAEA, NISA, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Fukushima Daiichi, TEPCO, nuclear power, Japan

China to USA: We Will Rock You

It was insult enough when Red China became the gate keeper of the Panama Canal when we left, buying the leases for the Atlantic port of Cristobal and the Pacific port of Balboa, both built by America. Now they're Chinese. Then the Chinese crash into...

Published Sun, Apr 10 2011 6:22 AM by BLACKFIVE

Cowboys and Soldiers...

B5 and TSO. Photo courtesy of Jeff Bader So Mark Seavey, TSO from This Ain't Hell and Mothax at the Burn Pit (pictured above with me), and I traveled to Montana to take part in the Montana Horses Annual Round Up and Horse Drive. We were honored by...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 4:10 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

American anti-leadership

J. E. Dyer has an excellent piece at Hot Air talking about the new balance of power and what American superpowerdom hath wrought. As a superpower, the US has functioned as an alternative to the formation of blocs, which coalesce chiefly around the dynamics...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 1:30 AM by BLACKFIVE

Gitmo Leaks and Torture Talk

Me against a fun loving peace guy and Alyona about the horrendous, egregious & heinous things we have done not done at Gitmo. There is plently of misinformation bandied about by the left and much of it is on display here. Gitmo is a model of an enemy...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2011 6:56 PM by BLACKFIVE

CAPT Lew Diley, USN (Ret)

Captain Diley was the father of a high school classmate of mine, a former commanding officer of 2 nuclear powered submarines (USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) and USS James Madison (SSBN-627) ), a co-worker of my Dad's in the mid 1970's while assigned...

Published Fri, Apr 01 2011 2:53 PM by BLACKFIVE

Red Horse Drop

U.S. Air Force jumpers from the 820th Red Horse squadron, airborne flight, execute a static line jump from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter April 15, over Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Airborne Red Horse are significantly different than the rest of traditional...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 3:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Clay Hunt Tribute Video

Mark Hayward, former Special Forces medic and key Team Rubicon volunteer, put together a tribute video for Clay Hunt. It is published up as a guest post at the United States Naval Institute blog...

Published Fri, Apr 08 2011 5:42 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

The crystal clarity of our Middle Eastern policy

Syria has rolled tanks and is continuing the longstanding Assad family tradition of killing anyone who questions their Authoritah. Out Authoritah in Chief is mulling over some extremely bold moves to counter this wholesale slaughter. WASHINGTON (AP) ...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2011 2:28 AM by BLACKFIVE

Atheist chaplains in the military?

So atheism is now a religion? What am I missing here? Strange as it sounds, groups representing atheists and secular humanists are pushing for the appointment of one of their own to the chaplaincy, hoping to give voice to what they say is a large — and...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 10:10 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Love Missile

No seriously. This is just fun. It started out with a leggy, bikini-clad avatar. She said she was a missile expert — the “1st Lady of Missiles,” in fact — but sometimes suggested she worked with the CIA. With multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts, she...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 10:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

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