November 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

The Colors of Committment - Jospeh Collins

Joseph Collins has experience in the Marines, the Army and as a police officer. He's served tours of duty in Bosnia and Iraq, and is now an instructor at the International School of Tactical Medicine. He is highly respected in all of these fields...

Published Tue, Nov 01 2011 2:45 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Soldiers' Angels, Angel Artist of the Month: Suzie Brown

Go to http://suziebrown.bandcamp.com, buy an awesome album for whatever price you deem appropriate and all of the money in the month of November 2011 goes to http://soldiersangels.org to help our deployed, returning, and wounded troops. We're blown...

Published Tue, Nov 01 2011 2:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Guest hosted Secure Freedom Radio

With John Weisman, Bill Roggio, Shaun Waterman and host Jim Hanson, sitting in for Frank Gaffney. What does the death of Osama bin Laden mean for politics here in the United States and for our relations abroad? Author John Weisman begins today’s show...

Published Thu, Nov 17 2011 1:08 PM by BLACKFIVE

Happy Veterans Day - Part 3 - WWII Paratrooper Walter Hughes

Over at the NRA's Life of Duty is a Patriot Profile that they did on a WWII paratrooper named Walter Hughes. Walter was only 18 years old when he jumped behind enemy lines in Holland and vividly describes his incredible experience. Walter loves his...

Published Thu, Nov 10 2011 9:40 PM by BLACKFIVE

Happy Veterans Day! - Part 1 - Mike Royko Style

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards." - Theodore Roosevelt Again this year (sort of a Veterans Day tradition), I wanted to offer up my favorite Veterans Day article...

Published Thu, Nov 10 2011 8:54 PM by BLACKFIVE

Veterans Day for the Civilized World

A Small Tribute For Veterans Day. God Bless 'em, Every One....

Published Wed, Nov 09 2011 1:30 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Video Channels, Fallen But Never Forgotten, Someone You Should Know

US Marines based in Australia!

"BARACK OBAMA is to announce that the US will begin rotating Marines through an Australian base in Darwin in a permanent new military presence, intensifying the alliance in a sign of heightened concern about China." More at: http://m.smh.com...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 12:40 AM by BLACKFIVE

Reflections on the last mission

Bayonet Soldiers Reflect on Role in Afghanistan Story by SSG Christopher Klutts BALKH PROVINCE, Afghanistan – As U.S. Army 1st Lt. Zachary Weigelt and Staff Sgt. Christopher Lepczyk conducted their final patrols in Shor Tepah district, they didn’t act...

Published Tue, Nov 01 2011 2:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Nov. 26 in US Military History

1941: The Japanese First Air Fleet, commanded by Adm. Chuichi Nagumo, departs for their attack on Pearl Harbor. 1943: The British transport HMT Rohna is struck by a German radio-controlled bomb, killing over 1000 American troops. The attack became the...

Published Sat, Nov 26 2011 5:47 AM by BLACKFIVE

Defense Analyst: Were in a technological race with ourselves

Reading through a NY Times story about defense cuts led me to one of the most, oh I don’t know, stupid statements it has been my misfortune to read in a while (one of the joys of being a blogger is I don't have to dress up my comments - stupid is...

Published Tue, Nov 22 2011 10:55 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Congratulations Vets2Chefs!

Crossposted from cwtt.org This last week, Cooking with the Troops was honored to be at the graduation exercise for Vets2Chefs. This program, from the wonderful people at Warrior Gateway, took a group of veterans and put them through a 30-day culinary...

Published Wed, Nov 16 2011 4:50 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Corporal De Santis and Justin Timberlake

You all probably have seen the YouTube videos of the military folks asking out celebrities and one of Marine Corporal Kelsey De Santis (an instructor at the MACE) asking Justin Timberlake out. Normally, I don't favor the celebs too much (although...

Published Mon, Nov 14 2011 11:33 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Some Thoughts On Veteran's Day

As Veteran's Day 2011 winds down, I wanted to share something that I always think about on this day; something that bothers me about how this day is reflected. I heard a lot of speeches, tributes and toasts over the last few days leading up today...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 10:26 AM by BLACKFIVE

Could a Marine Expeditionary Unit Take Down the Roman Empire?

An interesting discussion going on at AskReddit about the comparisons.... Let's say we go back in time with a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), since the numbers of members and equipment is listed for our convenience in this Wikipedia article, could...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2011 11:34 PM by BLACKFIVE

Veteran's Day At NASDAQ

A longer post is coming, but I wanted to share a small bit of what happened yesterday with you. These two pictures are something special: In both are Phil Perugini, who is a surviving member of the Band of Brothers. On D-Day, his jump went bad, and he...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 11:50 PM by BLACKFIVE