June 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

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

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

Pakistan's Assistance is Helpful...

...to Al Qaeda. According to the Telegraph (UK): Five suspected informants have been detained by Pakistan on accusations they helped the CIA monitor Osama bin Laden's hideaway in the weeks before he was shot dead in a US raid, Pakistani and American...

Published Wed, Jun 15 2011 1:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Father's Day for a Gild Star Dad

1745 hours May 14, 2005 our family got a last hug and said a final goodbye as we had to leave Ft. Stewart (GA) by 1800 after Mike's departure ceremony. The last fifteen minutes needed to be for him and his high school sweetheart now 20 year old bride...

Published Sat, Jun 18 2011 1:33 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

Al Qaeda cupcake bombs

Since we have been loving in the Brit colonial Gurkhas, maybe we should give some kudos to mainline Brit intel. They hacked the al Qaeda online magazine and replaced pipe bomb instructions with cupcake recipes from the Ellen DeGeneres show. Brilliant...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 4:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

President Obama's Terrible Mistake

From a Blackfive reader "T": The President addressing the 10th Mountain Division today at Fort Drum: "First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 7:02 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

Failing the "Global Test"...

Before he was CINC.... The terrorist threat is real. And precisely because it’s real--and we’ve got finite resources. We don’t have the capacity to just send our troops in anywhere we decide, without good intelligence, without a clear rationale. That...

Published Sun, Jun 19 2011 4:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Interview w/ "Buck" McKeon on Libya

UPDATE: In the audio I posted "Buck" McKeon states that one of his colleagues was told by a US commander in NATO that we were actively trying to kill Qaddafi. Josh Rogin confirms this and names the officer. House Armed Services Committee member...

Published Fri, Jun 24 2011 4:55 AM by BLACKFIVE

30,000 troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan

I’m all for winding down our commitment in Afghanistan, but it should be for solid reasons to do with the security and stability of that nation and not because of US politics. Alas I fear what we’ll hear tonight has been decided for exactly that reason...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2011 10:44 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Obama to give Re-Election speech on A-Stan tonight

President Obama will announce his plan for re-election/withdrawal from Afghanistan tonight. Our Ditherer in Chief has only one true strength and that is self promotion so the chance to get back to his real job as Campaigner in Chief making false promises...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 1:55 AM by BLACKFIVE

The American Spirit

...is alive and well in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Via Allahpundit at Hot Air, we found that Grand Rapids had been named a dying city. Not so, according to 5,000 of its citizens that showed up to make this awesome video in one take. The one-take, one-camera...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2011 1:02 AM by BLACKFIVE

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

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