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  • Start with the people

    Tera Dahl has deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan for the American Red Cross. She will soon be deploying back to Afghanistan to report on military-civilian operations for BLACKFIVE. The current strategy of building a central government in Afghanistan...

  • Blackfive Buys Bouhammer.com

    Making some big changes around here... We are also making plays for This Ain't Hell but haven't rounded up enough brown "things" from central america to make it worth Lilyea's while, yet. We would have bought Mudville (tons of cash...
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  • Anti Dog Eat Dog enforcement by Obama admin

    The National Labor Relations Board is an amazing drag on our economy and productivity and embodies almost everything that is wrong with statist social democracy. And they proved it in spades with this ridonkulous shite. Can federal bureaucrats tell a...

  • No Slack!

    U.S. Army soldiers From the 2/327th No Slack Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, return fire from behind cover during combat operations in the valley of Barawala Kalet, Kunar province, Afghanistan March 29, 2011. Photos by PFC Cameron Boyd of Joint Combat...
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  • Godspeed, Specialist Rudy Acosta

    This is heartbreaking... Army Spc. Rudy Acosta kept a list of goals in his pocket. Be a good leader. Become a surgeon. After serving as a medic in Afghanistan for nine months, the 19-year-old soldier was six weeks away from finishing his tour of duty...

  • Tartan Day - For Scotch Lovers

    I thought I would pass along one of my favorite articles from the New York Times. It's about, of all things, Scotch. It's long. It's informative. And it'll make you thirsty for a wee (or not so wee) dram. Scotch Whiskey: A Rugged Drink...

  • Tera Dahl on civil-military operations in Afghanistan

    Freshly returned from a tour in Afghanistan w/ the American Red Cross and also a previous trip with them to Iraq, Tera Dahl discusses how much good we are accomplishing. Afghanistan has many complicating factors that make peace there a huge challenge...

  • KSM to be tried at Gitmo

    God it has got to suck to be a lefty these days, with O starting his own wars and now trying KSM at Gitmo. Heck I'm thinking about signing on to Obama's re-election team. Attorney General Eric Holder today will announce that self-proclaimed Sept...

  • Brigade Commander unclear on the concept

    The Army's investigation of the Brigade that contained the "Kill Team" losers has another disturbing element regarding the BDE Commander. An Army investigation into the brigade commander of five soldiers accused of murdering unarmed Afghan...
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  • Shocker- US to stay in Iraq

    That is RT's title for this video. Obviously nothing is settled yet, but it sure looks like we are swinging a deal to keep some troops in Iraq longer than our current deal with them allows. Another campaign promise crushed by the bus wheels of reality...

  • PaveHawk Inbound

    Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Kolb, aviation boatswain's mate (handling), observes Airman John Billington, aviation boatswain's mate (handling), directs a U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk from the 56th Rescue Squadron as it prepares to land aboard...
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  • Tartan Day - The Declaration of Arbroath

    [Annual Re-Post for Tartan Day] "Every line of strength in American history is a line colored with Scottish blood." - President Woodrow Wilson The Declaration of Arbroath - April 6th, 1320 Our own American Declaration of Independence of 1776...

  • Tartan Day - The Hagis!

    One often yearns For the land of Burns. The only snag is The haggis. What the hell is that?! Traditional Haggis consists of sheep heart, liver and lungs (and sometimes tongue or whatever is left over), and it's cooked with oatmeal and onions inside...

  • Atlas Shrugged part 1

    The first thing I will say is they better make parts 2&3. Full review to follow, but I loved it and that most of the things people were complaining about were what I liked best about the film. A need to know much of the backstory, limits the appeal...

  • More help from our friends the Pakistanis

    This ought to make prosecuting the war in Afghanistan that much easier once the safe havens in Pakistan are reestablished. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives...
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