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  • All hail the Flying Squirrel

    OK I have watched this several times and I still can't see what actually happens. The move is called the Flying Squirrel, and however it works I just know it kicks flips amazing amounts of ass. American wrestler Ellis Coleman at the Junior Championship...

  • Biden calls Republicans terrorists

    I realize that politicians sometimes wrestle with difficult issues and tempers can flare, but the number of times that Democrats have compared the opposition to terrorists during these debt discussions is disgraceful. It is low and shameful, and I wish...

  • Michael Yon and his lying source

    Michael Yon seems to run into trouble with the Public Affairs folks pretty much every time he heads out. Invariably he ends up writing an angry diatribe about how they are out to get him and he calls them names like crazy monkeys. Another day another...

  • Happy 221st Birthday, Coasties!

    Revenue Cutter Bear, circa 1890. Painting by James A. Mitchell, III From District Seven (Miami): MIAMI - A Coast Guard Air Station Miami MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew conducts a practice fly over of Sun Life Stadium Aug. 3, 2011. The Florida Marlins are...

  • Oil Rig Taking Down

    U.S. Navy SEALs conduct fast roping from an HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the High Rollers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 85 onto a gas and oil platform. SEALs conduct these evolutions to hone their various maritime operations skills...

  • 9 month deployments for Soldiers

    At the Stars & Stripes, they unveil the new plan to have 9 month rotation deployments for the U.S. Army. ...Beginning next year, deployments for most troops will last nine months rather than the current 12 months. At the height of the Iraq troop surge...

  • Prayers Up!

    Time for some spiritual warfare. By now, most of you have seen reports that we've been following it for some time. News reports are stating that the majority of the 31 Americans slain in the helicopter shoot down were SEALs from ST6. Thoughts and...

  • Cheney would waterboard 'em again

    *** Cheney's book is out and unsurprisingly he is unapologetic. He is quoted as saying that he has no regrets about waterboarding terrorists. Asked in an NBC interview if he still embraces waterboarding, Cheney says, "I would strongly support...

  • Alison Krauss & Union Station entertain wounded warriors

    Alison Krauss has the voice of an angel; that is simply the truth. Her band joked about how she sings them to sleep every night on this tour and that sounds like bliss to me. Union Station is a perfect band to play a venue like Wolf Trap in Virginia as...

  • Questions Raised Regarding Wisdom of SEAL Mission

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/9/commandos-criticize-call-for-seals/print/ Some in the special operations community are privately criticizing the wisdom of Saturday's failed rescue mission in Afghanistan, saying commanders should have...

  • A Dish Served Cold

    Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE2011-08-S-025For Immediate Release ISAF forces conduct airstrike against insurgents responsible for downing CH-47 KABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 10) – Coalition forces killed the Taliban insurgents involved with the...

  • "Flying" the F-35

    Below is a guest post by Wendy Stewart, producer of You Served Radio podcasts. On Tuesday, August 9,Hamilton Sunstrand and Lockheed Martin had a press briefing and F-35 demo at the Hamilton Sunstrand facility in Rockford, IL. Blackfive scraped the bottom...

  • Pakistanis show Chinese our Special Ops bird

    Just lovely. Our "friends' the Pakistanis, the best allies money can rent, have apparently continued hedging their bets as far as who will be their sugar daddy. With the planeloads of loot we have been supplying them, which they tranship almost...

  • Spiritual Warfare - Sergeant Jamie Jarboe

    I can't ever thank you all enough for being a part of the spiritual fights we've engaged in here. We've got another one to fight today... Soldiers' Angels Germany's MaryAnn let us know about someone you should know: On April 10, 2011...

  • Al Qaeda #2 whacked

    No matter what this is good news if only for a chance to do the dead tangos dance. Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group. The Libyan national, who was the network...
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