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High Level Strategery and Civilian Magic Ninjas

More signs that the "strategery" going on around the Afghan war is a soup sandwich being eaten in a chicken wire canoe while is is paddled up *** Creek by a guy swinging a football bat wearing bowling cleats. Yeah I'm done tap dancing around...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 2:41 AM by BLACKFIVE

Commies March Against Libyan Kinetic Military Action

ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), the front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party, held their "Stop Bombing Libya!"anti-war demonstration last Saturday, July 9th, on Pennsylvania Avenue, in the back of the White House...

Published Sun, Jul 10 2011 1:55 PM by BLACKFIVE

President Obama's Terrible Mistake

From a Blackfive reader "T": The President addressing the 10th Mountain Division today at Fort Drum: "First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 7:02 AM by BLACKFIVE

InstaPundit's "Quote of the Day"

Today it is: “It’s a good thing Syria has gun control; otherwise the citizen-slaughtering troops could get hurt.” Funny story about that.

Published Sat, Jun 25 2011 1:29 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Evicting an old veteran

Isn't there a better way to handle this? Five shooting wars later, Lt. Col. Curtis Welborn Jr., U.S. Army, ret., remains doggedly determined to hold the high ground. In this instance, it's a tiny apartment in a Near North high-rise, where the...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 12:42 AM by BLACKFIVE

Soldiers' Angels Soldiers On

Below is a message from the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Soldiers' Angels. An organization that I also serve on the board of...Soldiers' Angels has been wronged by Michael Yon who deletes opposing views on FB and web sites so please...

Published Wed, Aug 01 2012 11:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Photo - Night Training for the Crew Chiefs in Afghanistan

U.S. soldiers prepare a CH-47F Chinook helicopter before conducting the night portion of slingload training on Camp Marmal, Afghanistan, June 30, 2014. The soldiers are crew chiefs assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 169th General Support Aviation Battalion...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2014 11:34 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Where was the Cavalry for Benghazi?

An icon of the Old West is the bugle sounding the charge as the cavalry rides to the rescue of Americans in peril. We had an isolated outpost in Benghazi under attack by murderous savages, they sent for help and they got...Jack. Hillary Clinton and her...

Published Mon, Sep 08 2014 11:23 PM by BLACKFIVE

Al Qaeda cupcake bombs

Since we have been loving in the Brit colonial Gurkhas, maybe we should give some kudos to mainline Brit intel. They hacked the al Qaeda online magazine and replaced pipe bomb instructions with cupcake recipes from the Ellen DeGeneres show. Brilliant...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 4:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

Trailer Talk- Declare the War already

The Islamists have declared and are waging war against us all over the planet. In his Not War speech this week, President Obama asked Congress to act. I concur, the should declare war on ISIS, AQ and all the rest officially. That would put the President...

Published Fri, Sep 12 2014 6:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

My Address to a Middle School Class on Veteran's Day 2014

Good morning, my name is Matt H and my daughter, is one of your 8th grade classmates. Last December, I retired from the Navy after serving 23 years of combined active and reserve service as a Navy SEAL. I am a combat veteran having served in the city...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2014 6:26 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Caring For The Defenders

Redleg rumba

There isn’t an infantryman in the world that doesn’t love the Redlegs (and if he says otherwise, he’s lyin’). Here’s the “King of Battle” working out. If you’re not tired at the end of this you aren’t human. This is how you put steel on target and a lot...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 11:21 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Bill Keller skewers Sarah Palin himself

Interesting piece by Bill Keller, Editor at the New York Times, in which he strives mightily to skewer Sarah Palin for insulting the august profession of journalism. Money shot: I was struck by the gratuitous quality of one remark she tossed off during...

Published Sat, Jun 18 2011 9:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Foreign Policy: A Critique of the Romney Plan

Mr. Romney has published a piece in the Wall Street Journal on the Middle East. He has a strong critique of the President's policy, but his own plan is only about halfway there. He's good on Israel: I understand exactly what he intends to do,...

Published Mon, Oct 01 2012 12:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Ice-T on the right to bear arms

Nicely said Ice. "I'll give up my guns when everybody else does.....I mean if there were guns here, would you want to be the only one without one." Now he also says that the 2nd Amendment is the last protection against tyranny, and says...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 2:18 PM by BLACKFIVE

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