June 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Special Forces Medic Recalls Four Hour Firefight

SFC Joanthon Clouse tells his story to Jeffrey Schogol (the "rumor doctor") at the Stars & Stripes. Caught in a kill zone, the SF Medic was attached to a MARSOC unit that was essentially fighting it's way out of a box canyon ambush....

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 3:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

M.O.H. Nominee Teammates Talk about the fight

Below is a story from the Army News Service I thought you'd want to read: Teammates recount Medal of Honor nominee's courageous actions June 13, 2011 By Brian Gebhart The White House announced May 31, 2011, that Sgt. 1st Class Leroy A. Petry,...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 3:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

U.S. Army's 236th Birthday - Official Video

Happy Birthday, US Army!

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 2:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Deep Blue 2011

Army engineer diver, Specialist Daniel Nagel, (foreground) prepares for a surface supply dive as Spc. Rodrigo Novoa (right) checks the KM-37 Diving Helmet, the afternoon of June 2, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Both Soldiers are assigned to the 74th...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 1:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Happy Birthday, U.S. Army!

More on this later...but for now, Soldiers, your Army birthday present is that you get rid of that g*ddamned beret. I just hope that morale doesn't suffer (GEN Shinseki quoted one of the reasons for the beret as "morale"). \sarc

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 12:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

Listen to You Served radio

The "Bouhammer" has some great guests teed up for tomorrow night. If you haven’t tuned into You Served Radio in a while, this Tuesday (the Army’s Birthday and Flag Day) is a show you won’t want to miss. We are fortunate enough to have two living...

Published Mon, Jun 13 2011 11:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

To Our Trolls

This goes out to our trolls, even the ones paid to troll here, and to some of the more interesting drive-by commenters. If you are truly seeking to do more than be a feeces flinging monkey, and want to have the chance to actually engage in dialog and...

Published Sun, Jun 12 2011 10:21 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Humor

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

So this dude who calls himself Daniel Robinson carrying a South African passport and $40,000 in cash rolls up to a Somali Transitional Government (TFG) military checkpoint in Mogadishu with another guy driving a pickup truck full of medicine, laptops...

Published Sat, Jun 11 2011 6:39 AM by BLACKFIVE

The Onion on Pakistani Intel

It is always sadly hysterical when the Onion speaks truth to ludicrousity. The Onion: ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency restated Thursday its commitment to the fight against terrorism, pledging full cooperation with U.S. forces during...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2011 3:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

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

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

Dominating Happy Hour

I am now a semi-regular on the Happy Hour segment for RT and this was perhaps my crowning glory. There is no redeeming social value to the topics, but I kick so much ass it just doesn't matter. Just watch, laugh and enjoy the exasperation of the other...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 2:05 PM by BLACKFIVE

Cooking Cuban For The Troops

Cooking with the Troops is up to something. In our tradition (of all of one year) of doing things a bit differently, we are going to tell you what we are up to, but not where. And, we may not tell you a few other things. What we will tell you is that...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 12:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Scanning

A coalition special operations forces member scans an area for insurgent activity as an AH-64 Apache provides air support during an operation to destabilize insurgent drug trade near Kajaki village, Afghanistan, June 2. During the operation, more than...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 11:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

D-Day, the 6th of June, 1944

Written in 2007 by a friend of mine, Dale Franks: It actually started on June 5th. And it almost didn’t start then. The weather had turned bad. A great storm had blown in from the Atlantic. High wind and high seas had forced ships of all kinds back into...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 2:50 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

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