July 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Thrill seeking? Or just a return to being a young man?

This article has a lot of vets incensed right now. Roller coaster death shows risks of veterans' thrill-seeking Combat veterans are known to come home from war hungry for adrenaline, taking up things like motorcycle racing or sky diving to satisfy...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 2:44 AM by BLACKFIVE

Cybersecurity

I am sure that many of you have been wondering what in the world I actually do for a living (or not). Well I mean aside from opining on national security here at B5. For the past year I have been working with a small software company that has an amazing...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 2:28 AM by BLACKFIVE

Thank you, General Petraeus!

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus at the International Security Assistance Force Change of Command ceremony held in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 18. Photo by Master Sergeant Michael O'Connor. P4 is outbound. We wish him the best in Langley. He'll probably...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 1:03 AM by BLACKFIVE

Gold Star Kids Find "Heaven"

"Conner calls Arlington heaven, so he's obviously a little confused with what's going on. But if he wants to think that this is heaven, that's fine. This is where daddy is and I tell him daddy's in heaven. So, it makes sense."...

Published Sat, Jul 16 2011 2:15 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

For three little girls, Police turn lemonade into lemons

I received an email about this from a reader in Georgia. He read about this story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Midway Georgia Police shut down three young girls lemonade stand in their yard. Police said they didn't have a business license...

Published Sat, Jul 16 2011 12:51 AM by BLACKFIVE

Star Wars, According to a Three Year Old

And remember..Do NOT talk back to Darth Vader!

Published Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:38 PM by BLACKFIVE

McCain Wants Special Cyber Security Panel

Not content with dorking up the budget, Congress wants to "act" on cyberspace security... Republican Senator John McCain called on Wednesday for the creation of a bipartisan panel to draft long-sought legislation to combat data breaches and...

Published Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:32 PM by BLACKFIVE

Thank You

Sometime last night, this blog crossed the 22,000,000 unique visit threshold. So thank you for your visits and giving the authors something to do. Because we authors are not good looking or popular, we have time to do this stuff. Heh. But, most importantly...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 11:15 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

DOD announces Initial Military Strategy for Cyberspace Operations

Thanks for the welcome, Matty O. I'm grateful for and honored by the invite to join this stellar team. Yes, this beast called "cyberspace" and "cyberspace operations" is piquing interest in various places in and out of the defense...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 1:51 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Web/Tech

Military pay guarantee bills still stalled

If you’ve been following the fiasco known as the debt ceiling negotiations, you may know that President Obama made the statement that he wasn’t sure if Social Security checks would go out on August 3rd. Well that’s not the only thing in jeopardy. Military...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 12:59 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Introducing new author...

Here's another long time Commenter turned into B5 author, LongTabSigO. He's got twenty-three years of Active and Reserve service in the US Army in SF (18B), Infantry and SOF Signal jobs with operational deployments to Bosnia and Africa. Since...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 12:28 PM by BLACKFIVE

Hussein strikes out

It was racist (or something) to mention Barry O's middle name before he became President, then he decided that it was an asset that would lead the Middle East to join his cult of personality. Yeah, not so much. Most surprisingly, Obama’s approval...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2011 11:43 PM by BLACKFIVE

Tomorrow is the Last Day for Valour-IT

First, I want you to see what your donations do. They put adaptive technology to use for troops that might otherwise be disconnected from their families, friends and brothers back in the war zone. I've seen it happen more than once when a wounded...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2011 6:37 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

The Free Bradley Manning Chair at Army War College

Really guys? This is who you want to represent Omar Freaking Bradley? P. J. Crowley resigned as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in March 2011 after he said that alleged Department of Defense mistreatment of Bradley Manning was, “ridiculous...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2011 5:02 AM by BLACKFIVE

Cutting aid to Pakistan & AWK bites the dust

Talked w/ Alyona on RT last night about the aid money we have threatened to cut off to Pakistan, as well as the un timely death of Karzai's brother AWK.

Published Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:54 PM by BLACKFIVE

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