December 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

A Bit Chilly Up Here...

Just remember I warned you that nothing good could come from this, unless you choose to support the Brave and Honorable Men and Women who will receive greater care than they previously would have without the outstanding efforts of Soldiers' Angels...

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 10:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Missile defense? We dont need no stinkin missile defense

Because, you know, no one is ever going to shoot a missile at us: New intelligence indicates that North Korea is moving ahead with building its first road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an easily hidden weapon capable of hitting the United...

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 1:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Bust Their Chops

Stache Bash

Below is our very own Grim, demonstrating proper safety techniques in growing manly facial hair... Stache-Bash donation site that benefits Soldiers Angels and Hire Heros here.

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 12:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

'Stache Bash' for Soldiers' Angels

Team Blackfive is one day out from our deadline to grow a "luxurious" mustache for Soldiers' Angels "Stache Bash" charity drive. Judging from the website, there is a lot more photoshopping going on than there is mustache growing...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 4:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

The Way to Kick off the Weekend

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 12:50 AM by BLACKFIVE

F-35B may be coming off probation and the Marines are bullish about it

You may not have heard the news that the F-35B, the Marine Corps variant of the next generation fighter which was put on 2 year probation by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, is very near coming off that probation. And you may also not have heard that...

Published Thu, Dec 08 2011 2:10 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

I Am Not Going To A Camp And You Aren't Going to A Camp....

And neither is anyone else that isn't part of Al-Qaeda or providing them material support.... But in case you haven't heard about this, it is all over the internet. Everyone, including those basement dwellers Anonymous, are all in a lather over...

Published Thu, Dec 08 2011 2:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Must See - Double Amputee Soldier Jumps with his Military Working Dog

Alex O. sent us the link to this awesome video of a Special Forces Soldier, who happens to be a double amputee (both legs), performing a jump with his partner... The SF Soldier is still serving and due to retire in 2015...

Published Wed, Dec 07 2011 10:46 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Video Channels

Fort Hood massacre nothing more than workplace violence per DoD

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something like this pops up: Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above...

Published Wed, Dec 07 2011 5:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Iowa State Professor Is the Latest in Academic Jackwagons

Over at the American Legion's Burn Pit, Mothax presents us another academic disconnected from reality: I read in Tuesday's Iowa State Daily that the College Republicans have begun collecting sundries for U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan and...

Published Wed, Dec 07 2011 1:28 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Must See - U.S.M.C. Patrol Base Georgetown Under Assault

U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, taking highly accurate IDF at Patrol Base Georgetown in Kajaki Sofla, Afghanistan on November 22, 2011. The Marines suppress the enemy with squad organic weapons, TOW missiles and .50 caliber...

Published Wed, Dec 07 2011 12:08 AM by BLACKFIVE

Package Delivery

Crews drop pallets of food and supplies from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules air craft over Bagram Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Nov., 23, 2011. The C-130 crew is assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. The supplies will go to soldiers...

Published Tue, Dec 06 2011 9:30 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Dec. 7 in US Military History

1917: Four US battleships, USS Delaware (BB-28), USS Florida (BB-30), New York (BB-34), and USS Wyoming (BB-32) arrives in British waters and join the British Grand Fleet in service during World War I. 1941: The destroyer USS Ward spots and sinks a Japanese...

Published Tue, Dec 06 2011 7:00 PM by BLACKFIVE

Rotor Replenishment

An SA-330J Puma carries munitions from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington during a vertical replenishment mission in the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 21, 2011. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David A. Cox

Published Tue, Dec 06 2011 2:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Dec. 6 in US Military History

1790: The US Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia. 1846: Army, Marine, Navy, and civilian forces under the command of Col. Stephen Watts Kearney attack Mexican "Californios" in the Battle of San Pasqual, near present-day San Diego...

Published Tue, Dec 06 2011 1:59 AM by BLACKFIVE

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