October 2012 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

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So, we've gotten a lot of attention here from Rush Limbaugh, Instapundit, Ace of Spades, Gateway Pundit, and PJ Media other great blogs, etc etc etc. So if you're new to our little corner of the blogosphere, please let me introduce you to the...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2012 10:41 AM by BLACKFIVE

SGT Craig Warfle Awarded Distinguished Service Cross - First Ranger to Receive DSC post 9/11

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno presents the Distinguished Service Cross to Sgt. Craig D. Warfle, from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, during an award ceremony at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., Oct. 26, 2012. Warfle received...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2012 1:44 AM by BLACKFIVE

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

"Is That Daddy?"

According to the official US Army SF page, Sgt MacPherson's son asked at his father's memorial, "Is that Daddy? Is that Daddy?" Sgt. Thomas R. MacPherson of 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment was laid to rest Oct. 26, 2012 at Forest...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2012 12:58 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

Beep....Beep....Beep.....

Hey, step back everyone, there is a bus pulling in over here... Blaming people who work for you is one thing, but blaming those that are prohibited by law from speaking publicly about what a piss-poor excuse for a leader you are just makes you look like...

Published Sun, Oct 28 2012 10:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders

Today is the Day of the Deployed - Help Send Holiday Cheer to the Deployed

Today is the Official Day of the Deployed. Right now, our men and women overseas need our support. Soldiers' Angels is in the middle of a drive to get every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine a care package for the holidays. There are a lot of ways...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 7:52 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Bigger than Watergate: Proof that the President is Lying about Benghazi?

Having a back and forth with a former legendary Delta operator. Here is the gist of what he is implying: The news is breaking today but there is a small bit that is being overlooked. According to the statements from Fox News: The security officer had...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 7:38 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Ted Turner says "It's Good U.S. Troops Are Committing Suicide"

Via Breitbart - According to Ted Turner, it's a good thing that troops are committing suicide: Due to autoplay, I've replaced the video with a link. Go here to Breitbart to see it. What. A. Douche. Bag. [hat tip to reader M.A.D. for sending the...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 5:50 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Oct. 26 in U.S. military history

1909: U.S. Army Lt. (future brig. gen.) Frederick Erastus Humphreys becomes the first Army aviator to solo in a heavier-than-air craft – the Wright Flyer – following three hours of instruction by Wilbur Wright. 1922: Lt. Commander Godfrey de Courcelles...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 3:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

Execution By Mortar Round?

Only the son of Kim Jong Il could use this to obliterate an adversary (or a perceived adversary or someone that may become an adversary or may sire an adversary...) Kim Chol, vice minister of the army, was taken into custody earlier this year on the orders...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 2:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

What Baseball Means to a Hero

Since 2005, we here at BlackFive have been applauding the efforts of Baseball players Americans like Barry Zito and Curt Schilling who have spent a lot of their time and resources on our wounded troops. Longtime B5 pal "Eggs" sends this story...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 2:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

How to build useful forces to fight in Libya

There is a good piece in Foreign Policy by Roger Carstens about what it actually takes to spin up a special ops capability in Libya that might actually do some good. It is easy to talk about this, and make powerpoint slides and speechify. But the ground...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 10:56 PM by BLACKFIVE

What the Presidental Debate Moderators Could Learn from the C.I.A.

Over at Foreign Policy, Amy Zegart has a short but interesting theory that the Presidential debate moderators could learn a thing or two about picking germaine foreign policy topics from the Central Intelligence Agency. ...In the 2000 election, terrorism...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 6:41 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Bust Their Chops

In Their Own Words:

British artist and former paratrooper, Derek Eland spent a month in Afghanistan in 2011 as an official war artist with 16 Air Assault Brigade. He set up 'Diary Rooms' on the front line and asked soldiers to write a postcard about their experiences...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 3:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Photoessay: U.S. Army Special Forces O.D.A. aid the A.N.A.

A US Army Special Forces team is mentoring an Afghan National Army force. The purpose is to let the ANA force take the lead in operations, with the SF team in support. On October 22nd, an Afghan soldier was hit by an IED in Khak-E-Safed (Farah Province...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 2:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Sapper Medevac

Members of 1st Platoon, 102nd Sapper Company, 307th Engineer Battalion (Combat Airborne), 20th Engineer Brigade, evacuate one of their soldiers to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after he was injured by an improvised explosive device on the way to Combat...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 1:35 AM by BLACKFIVE