April 2012 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

The Harvet Hawk - Harvesting Terrorists

After a 10-hour flight, the Harvest Hawk sits on the runway at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, March 26. The modified KC-130J is staffed with officers who have experience conducting close-air-support, is equipped with Hellfire and Griffin missiles, and...

Published Tue, Apr 03 2012 12:22 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Tim Kennedy Performs "Part of Me" by Katy Perry

Tim Kennedy, MMA fighter, Special Forces sergeant, Ranger, all around bad ass, shows what can happen to you when you run out of choices in life... From a comment at Ranger Up's You Tube site: I met Tim Kennedy at a grappling competition a couple...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2012 12:16 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Humor, Military Humor, Tim Kennedy

RIP- Mike Wallace

Yeah it's the polite thing to say, but honestly I wonder whether he deserves it based on his grotesque statement regarding the ethics of filming American troops being slaughtered. He and Peter Jennings were on a show about the ethics of war and were...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2012 10:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

Air Force Cross Award Ceremony - Captain Barry Crawford Jr.

Captain Barry F. Crawford Jr. was awarded the Air Force Cross during a Pentagon ceremony April 12 for his heroic actions controlling the air space and calling in airstrikes during the 2010 battle in Afghanistan, which allowed his special operations team...

Published Mon, Apr 16 2012 2:46 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Sergeant Felipe Pereira - Someone You Should Know

This guy is a STALLION! Sergeant Felipe Pereira is going to receive the DSC today, our nation's second highest medal for valor...it is the first DSC award to a Screaming Eagle since Viet Nam... FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (Army News Service, April 11, 2012...

Published Thu, Apr 12 2012 1:48 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Frank Gaffney Show- The War on Terror is over?

Who won? That is the question I have for the State Department official who said the War on Terror is over. Frank and I discuss that, our submissive strategy in this ex-war and looming across the board budget cuts on Secure Freedom radio. The full show...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 2:08 PM by BLACKFIVE

More Outrage that I Can't Seem to Dig Up For News That Ain't.....

Ummmm.... Is anyone else surprised that a bunch of super Type AA personalities that spend their days and nights carrying 70 pounds of equipment and riding around in armored vehicles looking for a reason to terminate with extreme prejudice anyone who thinks...

Published Wed, Apr 18 2012 2:59 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Dr. Phil plays the fool

I never hold much truck with people like Dr. Phil. Too many pat answers to difficuly issues, too much cliche-ridden BS. Well he has shown his true colors with an asinine display of ignorance and disinformation about PTSD. He portrays those with PTSD as...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 1:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

Can't seem to find the outrage

The LA Times has published pictures of US troops posing with the dead body parts of insurgent bombers. I am required by the code of military common decency and professionalism to state that I am outraged by this. But I am not really. Of course it causes...

Published Tue, Apr 17 2012 11:59 PM by BLACKFIVE

Fearless - The Story of SEAL Team Six Operator Adam Brown

FEARLESS: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown, by best-selling author Eric Blehm is available wherever books are sold 5/22/12. Visit http://www.fearlessnavyseal.com to order and for more information. Note...

Published Wed, Apr 11 2012 1:41 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Books, Fallen But Never Forgotten

A Fallen Paratrooper's Sister...

Say hello to Staff Sergeant Charlene Honaker Navarrette, sister of fallen paratrooper SPC Christopher Honaker of Able Company, 2-503rd, 173rd AIRBORNE, as she visits the COP in Afghanistan named in memory of her brother SPC Christopher Honaker and SPC...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2012 1:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten, Picture of the Week

Another Bad Day At The Jihad

Dontcha just hate it when you're in a gunship orbiting a bunch of jihadis planting an IED and just when you're about to hose them down, they blow themselves up? Maybe the last guy standing should get a T-shirt saying, "MY PALS WENT TO JIHAD...

Published Sat, Apr 07 2012 3:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Must Read - They Were Doing Their Jobs, Not "Sightseeing", When They Were Killed

The Daily Mail gets it wrong, so very wrong. Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber today as they took pictures and went sightseeing in an Afghanistan park. Witnesses said the bomber walked up to the troops, who had been warned by locals 'not...

Published Mon, Apr 09 2012 2:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Caring For The Defenders, Fallen But Never Forgotten, Bust Their Chops

Former SF Sergeant posts trophy pic

Jonn Lilyea has found more evidence of profane indifference to life among our military vets. A leering ex- green beret posted a pic of himself in front of a huge pile of severed limbs and holding body parts of the victims of his deranged massacre. This...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 1:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Book Review: Spycatcher

This book review is a special by Elise Cooper for BlackFive.net: Mathew Dunn’s debut novel, Spycatcher, is billed as a book written by a former field intelligence officer. He worked for Britain’s MI6, the equivalent to the CIA. Dunn has successfully made...

Published Tue, Apr 03 2012 11:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Books

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