June 2013 - BlackFive

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  • Doing HuffPost Live now

    Doing HuffPost Live about defense contractors spying on us for pay at 6:35 http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/defense-department-contractors/51b5eaebfe34441e8c000436
  • First verified lie from Ed Snowden

    NSA leaker Ed Snowden claimed to have broken both of his legs while training for Special Forces. In 2003, he enlisted in the US army and began a training program to join the Special Forces. Invoking the same principles that he now cites to justify his...
  • The IRS has a SWAT team?

    Sadly yes. Rep. Jeff Duncan wants to know why IRS law enforcement agents are training with AR-15 rifles. As chairman of the House Homeland Security oversight subcommittee, Duncan (R-S.C.) toured a federal law enforcement facility in late May and noticed...
  • Sneak Peak: Overlord Museum

    Thanks to my new friends at Relais de la Plage (more on them soon, they are recommended), I was introduced to the Director of the new Overlord Museum between Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery. Despite the fact that construction is being frantically...
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  • Defense Budget - Feathering fighter bird nests?

    The defense budget for 2014 is starting to take shape and we are going to be taking a good look at some of the items in it. Money is obviously tight, so we need to make certain that it is spent wisely and for the right reasons. All too often politics...
  • I Guess If General Dempsey Says So...

    I didn't retire to insult General Officers, it seems to be a perk of the status though, and this is the dumbest thing I have EVER heard any General say: Earlier this year, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said the sexual assaults...
  • Godspeed

    I can't share too many details yet, but yesterday there was a charity run that ended at Utah Beach. The young (44?) year-old-veteran who won the race suffered a heart attack at the remembrance ceremony and died. I ask you to keep his wife, children...
  • Free Bradley Manning at Meade

    Not actually giving away free samples, just whining that treason is not important enough to lock someone up for. Friend of UJ and the site "the One-Eyed Jack" took one for the team and drove through the gaggle of dirty, nasty, patchouli-smelling...
  • Obama plays wag the dog w/ Syria

    Un-Freakin'-Believable. The Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons against the rebels seeking to overthrow him and, in a major policy shift, President Obama has decided to supply...