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  • The Worrisome Veteran

    An astounding bit of ignorant bigotry from academia. Then again, it may just be that the "educator" in this case is not used to having anyone question her on anything, and simply doesn't know how to respond to honest and open intellectual...
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  • How many bullets to kill a deer?

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo of NY is a quite ordinary political tool of the left. Consequently he is making quite ordinarily toolish statements about gun control. “I say to you forget the extremists. It’s simple — no one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs...

  • Tribute

    Maj. Gen. John W. Nicholson, Jr., commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division, leads the unveiling of a new stained-glass window commemorating the sacrifices of paratroopers during the Global War on Terrorism in the new division chapel Jan. 9, 2013...
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  • Where Is Sgt. Zuckerberg?

    Okay, the article I recommend you read -- especially if you are a PAO -- is "Where is Lt. Zuckerberg" but I am going to go with my biases in regards rank (this or CPT). The article looks at the currently abysmal military landscape in regards...
  • Dana Milbank of the Washington Post plays the chicken hawk card today, always the sign you have no real argument. In Vietnam in 1968, two separate mine explosions left Chuck Hagel with shrapnel in his chest and burns on his face and arms. This is not...

  • Uncertainty as a National Security Issue

    Department of Defense Comptroller Robert F. Hale gave a talk recently that underlines a key problem troubling not only our national defense, but explaining why the economy has been so bad for so long. The problem is the uncertainty being created by the...

  • Brennan for CIA

    Well this is hardly a shock, just another sad side effect of reelecting Obama. We get his naive, America last foreign policies and the buffoons he chooses to implemtn them. In this case John Brennan to run the CIA. If you would like some background on...

  • No need for semi-auto or high capacity magazines

    Well except maybe for this lady who put 5 rounds from a .38 into a home-invading scumbag and then had to BS him when she ran out of bullets. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton...

  • Save a school, arm a teacher

    I have been too busy to do much lately, but a chance to talk about arming teachers was too much fun to pass up. The best part of this is that most of the anti-gun arguments are even more useless against this idea. If the choice is armed teachers or dead...

  • Paktya Packages

    Supplies drop to U.S. soldiers deployed to the mountainous Paktya province on Forward Operating Base Lightning, Afghanistan, Dec. 23, 2012. Military leaders coordinated the air drop to resupply the base when adverse weather made roads through mountainous...
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  • The Poo Pond Song

    Over at the Air Force Times FlightLines blog, they posted up this video as an ode to something known to all who've done some time at Kandahar - The Poo Pond Song...soon to be history. Thanks to our pal, Jeff Schogol at the AFTimes for the tip.

  • Culinary Command

    While I have stepped down from Cooking with the Troops, I continue to believe that careers (and associated economics) are one of the largest and most important challenges facing those leaving service. If not the most important, and I know others feel...
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  • Jan. 2 in U.S. military history

    1777: Following the surprise American victory at Trenton (N.J.) days earlier, British forces under Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis counterattack Gen. George Washington’s Continental Army at Assunpink Creek. The British withdraw after three failed assaults...

  • The end of female engagement teams

    Cpl. Colby Brown / Marine CorpsLance Cpl. Victoria Rogers, a member of a female engagement team attached to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, jumps over a canal on her way to a local school in Afghanistan. The Corps has transferred the FET mission to Afghan...

  • Dec. 31 in U.S. military history

    1775: The Continental Army suffers its first major defeat when an American invasion force commanded by Maj. Gen. Richard Montgomery unsuccessfully assaults the British at Quebec. The attack yields fewer than 20 British casualties at the cost of over 50...
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