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NRA's Life of Duty: National Archives Footage of D-Day

June 6, 1944 marks the 68th anniversary of "Operation Overload" - the D-Day invasion where more than 160,000 allied troops landed on a 50-mile stretch of French Coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. The invasion...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2012 12:52 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

Rally against civilian trial for KSM

Grim and I finished up our journalism gig and took the train up to NYC for a rally protesting Attorney General Holder's decision to try KSM and 4 others in Federal Court in NYC rather than in tribunals at Gitmo. I was supposed to speak but it was...

Published Sun, Dec 06 2009 4:39 AM by BLACKFIVE

SPC Leandro Garcia - Someone You Should Know

Go to Soldiers' Angels Germany for the story on SPC Garcia - a truck driver who volunteered to be a door gunner and who's chinook was shot down while attempting to support RESTREPO. ...The Jan. 17, 2009, mission that led to Garcia's awards...

Published Sun, Jan 09 2011 11:47 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Videos from the XO, now CO, of the USS Enterprise are "Raunchy"?

This has been all over the military back channels and the media this weekend...the former XO of the USS Enterprise, Captain Owen Honors, made stupid videos for the ship's movie night back in 2006. Some of the content of the videos may be offensive...

Published Sun, Jan 02 2011 11:57 PM by BLACKFIVE

The military as a conservative plot to dominate America

OK let's have some fun w/ Mother Jones, its Navy vet correspondent Adam Weinstein and his awesome theory that the military has a cunning plan to force America to be a conservative society. Seriously, near as I can tell he actually is trying to make...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 10:44 AM by BLACKFIVE

WWII Hero who repaid his saviors passes on...

Reader Mike W. sends this article about a WWII pilot who was shot down in the Pacific and rescued by islanders who continued to nurse him to health and protect him from the Japanese. Then, the pilot eventually makes his way back to the U.S. and never...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 7:46 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

In Praise of USAID

Among the many spending cut ideas that the Republican House has come up with lately is a proposal to largely eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is one of the most effective tools that we have in foreign policy...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 3:13 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Christmas from Iraq

I don't know if any of you remember, but a couple years back there was a blog called Jack's Texas Music, written by a police officer out in Texas. It was quite simply the best blog covering that world I've ever seen. "Jack" humanized...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 12:37 AM by BLACKFIVE

In which I hate the UN deeply

I have a long and passionate hatred for the United Nations and have personally witnessed it's disgraceful behavior. Both the abomination that is the General Assembly, where every tyrant is equal and it's field operations where corruption and oppression...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2010 11:57 PM by BLACKFIVE

Military Roundup 9 Apr 2010

Photo of the Day: Drew Brees trains with Marines in Africa Afghanistan: Taliban release video showing U.S. Prisoner of War Bowe Bergdahl Multi-million dollar poppy eradication program fails, U.S. troops now focused on Taliban Air Force special operations...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 1:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Thoughts Go Out To The People Of Poland

The Polish equivalent of Air Force One has crashed in Russia. There are no survivors. Among the dead are known to be Polish President Lech Kaczynski; Army chief of staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor; and, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer. Prime Minister...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 9:53 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Open letter to CENTCOM PAO

Sup, ninjas? Uber Pig here. I'd like to say a few words about this whole Wikileaks thing. You know, the thing where they've put up a 17 minute video called "Collateral Murder" that makes American soldiers look like, well, bad guys. How...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 6:06 AM by BLACKFIVE

Photo - Combat Controller Exit

Air Force combat controllers prepare to free fall from an MC-130H Combat Talon II during Emerald Warrior over Marianna Municipal Airport, Fla., April 29, 2015. The combat controllers are assigned to 21st Special Tactics Squadron. U.S. Air Force photo...

Published Wed, May 13 2015 9:48 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Talking Syria raid on FOX & Friends

We executed a brilliant raid into Syria, ventilated a bunch of bad guys and got all our folks home safe. Bravo!. But why did we tell the whole world about the raid before we even had a chance to catalogue the intel we picked up? This compromised our ability...

Published Sun, May 17 2015 11:02 PM by BLACKFIVE

Blackfive, Uncle Jimbo and Laughing Wolf Invade a Foreign Land

We're heading to the great state of Texas (San Antonio) to have a Soldiers Angels BBQ with some wounded troops for the Soldiers Angels Salute and Celebration. I think we are chaperoning the guys from Ranger Up (well, Jimbo too). There's a few...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 3:20 AM by BLACKFIVE

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