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El Conquistador on Political Aspirations
I know, I know, with the current changing slate of candidates is there no one we can count on? Ranger Up has a suggestion... US Army veteran Jorge Rivera fights tomorrow night. Go here for details.
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Thu, Jan 19 2012 3:49 AM
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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...
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Fri, Jan 20 2012 12:19 AM
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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...
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Mon, Jan 23 2012 4:47 AM
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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...
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Wed, Jan 25 2012 12:17 AM
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The defense budget
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...
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Thu, Jan 26 2012 11:10 PM
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Book Review: RAVEN STRIKE
This is a special review by Elise Cooper exclusively for BlackFive: Imagine a sophisticated piece of equipment, a UAV, a spy plane, being sent on a mission into enemy territory only to have something go terribly wrong. The enemy gets ahold of this drone...
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Tue, Jan 03 2012 2:34 AM
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Book Review: Red Mist
This book review is a special by Elise Cooper for BlackFive: New York Time’s Best-Selling author, Patricia Cornwell, once again has a hit novel. Red Mist is the 19th book in the Kay Scarpetta series. Cornwell originated the modern-day forensic thriller...
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Wed, Jan 04 2012 12:53 PM
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Jan. 5 in US Military History
1781: Commanding 1,600 British troops, American Traitor – now a British brigadier general – Benedict Arnold captures and burns Richmond, Va. 1855: A landing party from the USS Plymouth skirmishes with Chinese forces near Canton during the Taiping Rebellion...
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Thu, Jan 05 2012 12:04 AM
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PTSD Did Not Make Crazed Gunman "Crazed"
At least, that's the thought now that the media has had a few moments to think about it... Over at the Farm Team's Place, Jonn Lilyea talks about the events and the support from the VA on the subject of PTSD. And here is the Walkback by MSNBC...
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Thu, Jan 05 2012 1:19 AM
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Obamas new defense strategy: Prescient or problematic?
Over the years I have seen more “new” defense strategies than one can shake a stick at. And I’ve noticed one thing about all of them: for the most part they’ve been uniformly wrong. We have mostly had an abysmal record in divining what sort of a military...
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Thu, Jan 05 2012 10:54 PM
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Knight Hawk
An MH-60S Knight Hawk helicopter passes the USS Chafee while delivering supplies to the USS Carl Vinson during a vertical replenishment mission with the USNS Bridge in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 2, 2012. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class James R...
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Sat, Jan 07 2012 1:27 AM
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Nice View
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Madison DeLoach observes the terrain during a routine flight operation in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Jan. 5, 2012. DeLoach is a crew chief assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 363. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance...
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Tue, Jan 10 2012 3:21 AM
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Admiral Obama
Over at the WSJ, the editors take issue with President Obama's short-sighted defense cuts: The Administration's record to date is undeniable. Defense was targeted from day one in office, and Mr. Obama disguised his latest, steepest retrenchment...
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Mon, Jan 30 2012 12:12 AM
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Leaking the KBL Details - View of the SEALs
Joe Biden's spineless drivel aside, most SEALs that I have spoken to (Active Duty and Reservists) are NOT HAPPY that the details of the raid to capture or kill bin Laden were divulged and now we know what unit rescued the hostages in Somalia. Identifying...
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Mon, Jan 30 2012 11:33 PM
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FAKE SEAL and Special Operator Busted
Over at This Ain't Hell (we are soon to be THEIR farm team), Jonn Lilyea takes a Blackfive reader request and uncovers yet another SEAL poser. Check it out. Jonn has made outing phonies a cottage industry. And this phony should have been proud of...
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Tue, Jan 31 2012 7:40 AM
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