June 2012 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

SGT Tim Poe-ser on America's Got Talent

Jonn Lilyea and his crew of online digital assassins, including actual Law-slinger TSO, have taken apart the craven claims by a poseur extraordinaire who decided to peddle his fabulisms on America's Got Talent. The guy claimed some fake heroics and...

Published Thu, Jun 07 2012 12:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Some Thoughts On Free Speech

Authors Note: While I had the honor of posting the previous team post, this post is mine and mine alone. It represents only the views of Laughing Wolf and no other author or even of the blog. Anyone taking exception to it should look to C. Blake Powers...

Published Sun, Jun 10 2012 12:17 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

The Strategic Corporal (literally and in pictures)

Meet Corporal Brian Lewis...paratrooper and team leader in Company B, 1/501st: U.S. Army Cpl. Brian Lewis, back, points out a possible enemy location to U.S. Army Pfc. Josh Ball during a dismounted patrol in Shaway Valley in Afghanistan's Khowst province...

Published Mon, Jun 11 2012 7:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Tight Squeeze

A U.S. paratrooper exits the diminutive door of an Afghan building after searching it during a combat operation in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 2, 2012. The soldier is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. Outside...

Published Tue, Jun 12 2012 12:38 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Army early outs?

Interesting: Some Regular Army soldiers are being told to either deploy or leave service under terms of the newly revised Enlisted Involuntary Early Separation Program. As announced in late May, the Army is exercising new authority from Congress to require...

Published Sat, Jun 09 2012 12:33 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

US Army Johnny Cash Style

Published Thu, Jun 14 2012 12:49 AM by BLACKFIVE

Army vet selling medal on Ebay to support family

Stories like this hit home hard. Veteran unemployment is way too high. Finding a job isn’t easy and, as we all know, life goes on and obligations remain. Doing what one has to do to survive isn’t always what we would prefer. That’s the situation that...

Published Wed, Jun 20 2012 11:39 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Leakers leak about leak investigation

You simply cannot make shite like this up. Ain't no corruption, like Chicago Way corruption, 'cuz Chicago Way corruption don't stop. Federal authorities have interviewed more than 100 people in two separate investigations into the public disclosure...

Published Fri, Jun 15 2012 12:29 PM by BLACKFIVE

Hiring Our Heroes/Veterans On Wall Street Conference & Job Fair

No one can argue that the economy bites, and that finding a job can be difficult -- especially for our young veterans. To help with the challenge, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has started the Hiring our Heroes program. In New York, a group of veterans...

Published Fri, Jun 15 2012 3:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

The Leak of the Day

This has really got to stop. I understand this is an election year. Once again, though, we have "participants in the program" giving an account to the New York Times of the conditions of the Presidential situation room. Once again we are left...

Published Fri, Jun 01 2012 3:34 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Anti-war weasel refuses to rent to veteran

I love people like this, they have the strength of their jackass convictions. A National Guardsman who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay has sued a woman he tried to rent from, after she told him his war service and her peace activism presented...

Published Mon, Jun 04 2012 9:28 AM by BLACKFIVE

Excellent piece on drones and Pakistan tribal areas

Excellent look at whether drone strikes are creating more terrorists than they take out, and written by a Reuters reporter. Not really something I expected, and I don't agree with all of it by any stretch, but it is a solid commentary on a lot of...

Published Mon, Jun 04 2012 1:11 PM by BLACKFIVE

The Mad Medic serves up a dose of whoop ass

A picture of Breanna Bradley Manning on it's own is lame. A picture of him photoshopped to look like he is receiving the Medal of Honor is disgraceful and anyone associated with it should be ashamed. The ass-clown who posted this is not self-aware...

Published Sun, Jun 03 2012 5:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

SECDEF on Strategic Communication

Secretary Gates has some thoughts. By Wednesday of that week, Gates went to see Donilon, offering up a barbed assessment of how the White House had handled the aftermath of the raid. ‘I have a new strategic communications approach to recommend,’ Gates...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2012 11:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Submarine Tendered

The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Tucson (SSN 770) comes alongside the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39). Tucson, homeported in Peral Harbor, is on a western Pacific deployment, while Emory S. Land is on an extended deployment in...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2012 1:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

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SGT Tim Poe-ser on America's Got Talent

Some Thoughts On Free Speech

The Strategic Corporal (literally and in pictures)

Tight Squeeze

Army early outs?

US Army Johnny Cash Style

Army vet selling medal on Ebay to support family

Leakers leak about leak investigation

Hiring Our Heroes/Veterans On Wall Street Conference & Job Fair

The Leak of the Day

Anti-war weasel refuses to rent to veteran

Excellent piece on drones and Pakistan tribal areas

The Mad Medic serves up a dose of whoop ass

SECDEF on Strategic Communication

Submarine Tendered