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Navy rocks even harder than its commercials

h/t Mary Apparently life "in the Navy" has progressed from the Village People to Pantera. A step in the right direction for sure.

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 4:20 AM by BLACKFIVE

Royal Laotion parachutists spotted over S.C.?

Royal Laotian parachutists are jumping over S.C. In this jump, I was not only climbing out of the aircraft, but pulling myself far enough up on the strut – away from the fuselage right where the strut connects to the wing – that my feet had to leave the...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 5:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Canadian Military Motivator - Part II - Lumberjack Commandos

Published Mon, Oct 25 2010 6:06 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military Motivators

Arab Spring, Fall & Crash?

I rooted for the fall of dictators during the Arab Spring. Many people were saying that this could lead to Islamist groups replacing them. True dat. But can you name an Islamist country that actually manages to increase the standard of living? They don't...

Published Sun, Feb 05 2012 10:16 PM by BLACKFIVE

Military Blogs Are Everywhere!

Um, that title up there is a gross exaggeration/mis-statement (i.e. lie) on my part. While our traffic here is still strong (but not as strong as it once was), there is no doubt that blogs in general have less attention than they used to enjoy due to...

Published Mon, Mar 05 2012 12:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

We Must Fight

If you don't want to rush on over to your local recruiter after watching this, well, you're at the wrong blog...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2012 11:32 PM by BLACKFIVE

Julian Assange Sentences 1,800 Afghans to Death

John Burns and Ravi Somaiya in the New York Times (Burns is one of the fairest, honest etc) reports on the Wikileaks debacle: ...A Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan . . . said in a telephone interview that the Taliban. . . . had a "wanted” list of...

Published Mon, Oct 25 2010 2:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Congress to Raise their own pay but not Military pay in a time of War?!

Over at This Ain't Hell, we give Jonn Lilyea the money quote of the day [bold emphasis is mine]: I mentioned earlier that the Obama Administration moved to freeze government employees’ pay today. Not to be outdone, Steny Hoyer, the soon-to-be minority...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 10:44 PM by BLACKFIVE

Godspeed LTC (ret) Buck Compton!

Lynn. D. 'Buck' Compton has passed on. His obit is in the LA Times. As a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, Lynn D. "Buck" Compton was known for heading the three-man team that successfully prosecuted Sirhan B. Sirhan for the 1968...

Published Tue, Feb 28 2012 2:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

CIA doctors violated Nuremberg Code?

Good Lord these people are relentless. Based on zero new evidence, simply their own interpretation of memos about the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques a group of doctors is accusing the CIA doctors who supervised the program of essentially...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 1:36 AM by BLACKFIVE

JD leaves the plastic world for the Stan

JD Johannes is back in Afghanistan and will soon be letting us see some of what is going on there. He will be taking a different approach this time and I had a chance to discuss this with him the last time he was in DC. I think it will be very interesting...

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 2:48 AM by BLACKFIVE

British Sniper Rifle

OK another odd request, but all will become clear later in the month. A while back a British Sniper made the current longest kill at about 1.5 miles. He did so with this gun: The L115A3 rifle was first deployed to Afghanistan in May 2008.The MOD claims...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 4:51 AM by BLACKFIVE

Fiddling while Tehran prepares to burn us

I highlighted the recent "deal" Iran struck with Brazil and Turkey as an example of how the policy of engagement was failing the Obama team. That is an understatement, it is failing the world. The policy is based on the fundamentally-flawed...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 1:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Book Review: Countdown

The following review is a special for BlackFive readers provided by Elise Cooper. You can read all of our book reviews and author interviews by clicking on the Books category link in the right side bar. Countdown by Carey Baldwin is a story ripped from...

Published Sat, Dec 16 2017 11:15 PM by BlackFive

Book Review: Paradise Valley

Paradise Valley by C. J. Box is the finale in the Highway Quartet Series. Each book is interconnected starting with Back Of Beyond that introduces former sheriff Cody Hoyt. In the next book of the series, The Highway, he becomes the mentor of his rookie...

Published Sun, Jul 30 2017 4:16 AM by BlackFive

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