June 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Gurkhas still amazing

If you ever wonder how the Brits managed to keep their empire together as long as they did, this will help explain. The Gurkhas are just incredible. A Gurkha soldier who single-handedly defeated more than 30 Taliban fighters has been awarded the Conspicuous...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2011 11:41 PM by BLACKFIVE

InstaPundit's "Quote of the Day"

Today it is: “It’s a good thing Syria has gun control; otherwise the citizen-slaughtering troops could get hurt.” Funny story about that.

Published Sat, Jun 25 2011 1:29 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Why Do I Love Blogging?

Because you get to do some interesting things, and you get to meet some amazing people. A few weeks ago in NYC for Blog World and New Media Expo, I met a blogger and got to talking with them. Turns out, they had their own personal experience with TBI...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2011 12:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Team Rubicon - Why We Do What We Do

Team Rubicon video below talks about the mission (and yes, the First Lady had nice things to say about us), and how TR fits into the whole scheme of disaster response: TEAM RUBICON 2 min Promo from TEAM RUBICON on Vimeo.

Published Tue, Jun 21 2011 4:59 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Team Rubicon

Fallen Soldier's Letter to His Baby Daughter

At the Daily Mail is this story about a father's note to his little girl.... Tissue Alert.

Published Sat, Jun 04 2011 1:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

Pray for an Asteroid

...that's what you do when the KKK protests the Westboro jackwagons (you don't choose sides)... More over at the Farm Team's excellent blog.

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 12:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Bill Keller skewers Sarah Palin himself

Interesting piece by Bill Keller, Editor at the New York Times, in which he strives mightily to skewer Sarah Palin for insulting the august profession of journalism. Money shot: I was struck by the gratuitous quality of one remark she tossed off during...

Published Sat, Jun 18 2011 9:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

An Eric Holder beatdown

The Gunnison Tourist discusses an impending distaster (we hope) for noted cakeboy (and acolyte of the Cakeboy in Chief Barry O) Eric Holder about the gun walking debacle.

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 12:36 PM by BLACKFIVE

The Courage of Our Grandfathers....

I generally spend some of today trying to imagine the courage it took for our grandfathers (or for some now, great-grandfathers) to step off of those landing craft at Omaha and Utah Beach with bullets snapping and ricocheting around them, stand in the...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 2:46 AM by BLACKFIVE

Off-Topic Hit&Run Auto Bleg

Lite posting so far, as someone left the road, rammed the side retaining wall for my parking area, and took off in a hurry for some odd reason. They left behind an 8-plus-foot chunk of missing wall, misc. damage, and the left front inner fender to their...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 2:40 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Fallen Royal Marine Throws One Last Party

Royal Marine Killed in Afghanistan Leaves Friends $160G for Las Vegas Party Published June 20, 2011 |FoxNews.com A British soldier killed by a Taliban bomb in Afghanistan left $161,500 in his will -- so his friends could go on vacation to Las Vegas, The...

Published Sun, Jun 19 2011 11:13 PM by BLACKFIVE

Memorial Day seen by a sixth grader

All may not be lost for our next generation as this poem my sister and her husband sent on written by a sixth grade classmate of one of their friend's kids shows. Spot on and beautifully respectful. The Poem of the Fallen A pinewood box, Dressed in...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2011 3:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

Redleg rumba

There isn’t an infantryman in the world that doesn’t love the Redlegs (and if he says otherwise, he’s lyin’). Here’s the “King of Battle” working out. If you’re not tired at the end of this you aren’t human. This is how you put steel on target and a lot...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 11:21 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Dear Delta,

I do a fair bit of business with you, and in the past was a multi-year platinum frequent flier. To say that I am disgusted with your charging individual soldiers for checked baggage is an understatement. I do understand that you have a policy in place...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 8:39 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

This is The Gift That Can't Stop Giving....

I woke up this morning feeling as though someone, somewhere, needed to be pilloried. The Delta Airlines story was handled already (and WOW! am I hot about that), so I shifted fire and then it occurred to me; I have been all over the web, and I have also...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 3:40 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders, Bust Their Chops

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