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One Mission Complete

U.S. and Afghan soldiers watch as the CH-47 Chinook helicopter that brought them to the village of Mengal Kheyl in the Zormat district of Afghanistan’s Paktya province, lands after completing an air assault mission, April 22, 2010. The soldiers, who captured...

Published Sat, May 01 2010 5:02 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

The future of a weekly

I hope this weekly news rag disappears from the face of this earth as rapidly as possible. Yeah, it's personal...a lot of you know why.

Published Fri, May 07 2010 2:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Not Dead Yet: Updates and More

Sorry for the long silence, though I know that you have not been deprived given the number of excellent stories that have gone up. Life has been not just hectic, or even frantic, but frenetic. Good news is that almost three quarters of a pound of paper...

Published Sat, May 08 2010 10:17 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders

Veteran Extremists in Time Square

RE: DHS Memo Veterans Are Right Wing Extremists RE: Unprovoked Discrimination Against Veterans While Mayor Bloomberg was looking for a Tea Party bomber, it turns out that the Times Square bomber was from the Religion of Peace. The New York Times reports...

Published Tue, May 04 2010 5:10 AM by BLACKFIVE

Military History: Research Assistance Request

Obviously one of the things that matters especially to families with a strong military tradition is history. One of our readers emails to say that she is researching her family's history, and has discovered that one of her ancestors fought with the...

Published Tue, May 04 2010 11:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

What a way to fight a war

When Mike Yon does his best work, he reminds me of Ernie Pyle. Here's a piece that Ernie wrote beautifully, about nothing. And here's a piece about a respected Captain's death in Italian campaign that reminds me of Yon's piece on the Kopp...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2010 4:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Second SEAL cleared in alleged abuse case (Updated)

A jury cleared Special Operator 2nd Class Jonathan Keefe today during his court martial in Iraq. Keefe was charged with failing to prevent the alleged abuse of Ahmed Hashim Abed, the man believed responsible for the grisly 2004 massacre of four Blackwater...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 5:55 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

That There is some Bravo Sierra

The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division was deployed to Anbar province during the Surge; the entire 3rd Infantry Division was deployed at about that time, with 1/3 in Anbar with the Marines; 2/3 in Mahmudiyah; 3/3 in the Mada'in; and 4...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 12:27 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Sensationalism & SWAT

The post I did yesterday about SWAT Overkill has generated a ton of response, and I knew it would. Over all I would say they have been very much in agreement w/ me that it was an improper use of force. But I have also received a number of messages from...

Published Thu, May 06 2010 1:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

SWAT Overkill

There are far too many examples of SWAT tactics used against individuals who no rational person could consider a danger to law enforcement. I have a piece about a brain-boiling example of this. It's a little testy and the whole thing is disturbing...

Published Wed, May 05 2010 10:19 AM by BLACKFIVE

The end of my SWAT raid series

Did some Russia Today TV about the SWAT raid to serve a drug search warrant. The first segment was on the Alyona Show (video embedded below the fold) and she kept asking whether these type of raids was tied to the return of troops from the battlefield...

Published Thu, May 06 2010 12:01 PM by BLACKFIVE

Car bomb in Times Square by Pakistani Taliban?

Mr. Roggio at Long War Journal has some potentially very disturbing news if verified. He has sources in the Intel community that believe this was an attempt by elements of the Mehsud group to hit us at home. A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit...

Published Sun, May 02 2010 3:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Creek Check

U.S. Army soldiers wade through a small creek while conducting a dismounted patrol in the village of Babus in Pole-Elam district, Afghanistan, May 7, 2010. The soldiers are assigned to the 264th Route Clearance Company, 27th Engineer Battalion, Task Force...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 6:10 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Medal of Honor history: Hagemeister and McNerney

Just days from separating from the Army, Charles Hagemeister learned that he would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Binh Dinh province of Vietnam on 20 Mar 1967. While Richard Nixon presented the Medal of Honor to Hagemeister he asked...

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 5:06 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

We con the World- A Turkish Hamas aid video

Holy crap this is funny. This was made by Caroline Glick and a crew she has put together to parody the hypocrisy in the Middle East. They are dead on with this one to the tune of "We are the World". My favorite line "We are waving our own...

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 6:38 AM by BLACKFIVE

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