January 2012 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

How to get a job, Part 1

The guys at Ranger Up are putting together a series on how to help vets get hired. Check this out and share it! Nick totally nails it. This is advice anyone, but vets in particular, should listen to.

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 11:23 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders, Weblogs

Here’s a little fact to keep in mind when considering the current cuts to spending at DoD (and let’s be clear, there is nothing wrong with appropriate cuts to defense spending), besides all the other ramifications it promises: Defense accounts for less...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 11:10 PM by BLACKFIVE

Afghan soldiers killing record number of advisors

The number of Afghan soldiers and police attacking their American trainers is becoming a major problem. Even worse, the attacks are now so frequent - 6% of total combat fatalities - that ISAF is no longer reporting details of the fratricide incidents...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2012 11:31 PM by BLACKFIVE

Happy Australia Day! Raise a Glass to the Diggers!

First, I want to wish all of our dear Aussie friends a Happy Australia Day! On January 26, 1788, the First Fleet of 11 convict ships arrived from Great Britain at Sydney Cove, establishing the first European colony on the continent of Australia. In that...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2012 3:25 PM by BLACKFIVE

HASC Republicans: A common sense solution to sequestration and national defense

The DoD is presently working through a half trillion dollars in budget cuts which is going to see a much weaker military despite what any of the madly spinning politicians claim. But the real meat axe is hanging just over the horizon in what is known...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2012 12:17 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Maybe It Is Time To Start My Own Army....

Who's in? Because this is what happens when you let the Puzzle Palace Douchebags (known to all hackers that pack the gear to serve overseas in a forward area as "PPDs") run the war. Joshua Waddell, a first lieutenant in the U.S. Marines...

Published Tue, Jan 24 2012 4:27 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders, Bust Their Chops

MH-65 Sea Ice Landing

NOME, Alaska - B-roll of a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew conducting an ice landing beside the Coast Guard Cutter Healy offshore of Nome, Alaska, on Jan. 18, 2012. Coast Guard ice landings are extremely rare, requiring extensive safety testing of ice prior...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 6:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Video Channels

RE-Enlistment Ceremony

Navy Chief Warrant Officer Keith Pritchett, lower left, administers the oath-of-enlistment to Petty Officer 1st Class Michelle Turner during an in-air reenlistment ceremony over Jamul, Calif., Jan. 19, 2012. Pritchett is the officer-in-charge of the U...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 5:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Picture of the Week

Movie Review: Warhorse

Gold Star Dad, Robert Stokely, sends this piece about his recent experience with Steven Spielberg's latest film: My wife and I went to a movie tonight. Stephen Spielberg's Warhorse. It was a debate whether to go. War is too personal and real to...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 4:47 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Fallen But Never Forgotten, Film

Haditha Trial is Over

“No one denies that the consequences of November 19, 2005 were tragic, least of all SSgt Frank Wuterich. But the fact of the matter is that he has now been totally exonerated of the homicide charges brought against him by the government and the media...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 4:14 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Obama's political timetable for Afghan withdrawal

President Obama's decision to deploy troops to Afghanistan and announce their withdrawal during the same speech was one of the sorriest examples of politics trumping policy in my memory. Telling your enemy "Oh yeah, we are coming to get you"...

Published Sun, Jan 22 2012 11:08 PM by BLACKFIVE

F-35 makes first night flight

Nice. More picture here. And, in more good news for the nation’s latest 5th generation fighter, the F-35B was taken off probation, a year early.

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 6:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Marine video fallout: Smartphones an asset or liability?

The usual introspection has begun at DoD concerning the fallout from the Marine micturition video. Charles Hoskinson at POLITICO provides the backstory and the current thinking about the matter: In the post-Sept. 11 era, an overseas deployment no longer...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 12:19 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Cruise ship captain- Sheepdog fail

Francesco Schettino is a name that will linger in ignominious shame with the stench of cowardice and failure all over it. He is the ex-captain of a cruise ship that he drove onto the rocks and the architect of the deaths of passengers he was duty bound...

Published Thu, Jan 19 2012 3:05 PM by BLACKFIVE

The last Haditha Marine about to walk?

He damn sure should. Here are a couple of looks at the non-massacre in Haditha one from Sgt Tim Sumner and another by me (w/ some help from Grim. Bottom line? The loss of innocent life at Haditha was a tragedy, and the prosecution persecution of the Marines...

Published Thu, Jan 19 2012 11:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

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