To honor our troops for this year, I am going to share this story about their mettle. What follows are excerpts from remarks by Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly made to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis on November 13, 2010. While leading his platoon on a combat patrol, Kelly’s son, Marine 1st [...]
It is Memorial Day. A day for remembering our fallen soldiers and honoring those still walking among us. This article may seem like a strange way to honor our military, but I think given recent events, it’s appropriate. They fight for us, we should fight for them. Denial, labeling and political correctness are killing our [...]
Real, as in “your pay is effectively being cut by 20% from July through September”… Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced yesterday that cuts due to sequestration will require DoD to reduce spending for civilian employees in order to meet required budget cuts. Hagel delivered the following message on civilian furloughs: “As you are fully [...]
The Question: The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, 1789: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” We talk about the “right of the people” to “bear arms” all the [...]
PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff is angry and looking to hold someone accountable for the delay in the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Obama’s next Secretary of Defense. Last week Woodruff demanded to know if anyone was going to “pay the price” for the delay in Hagel’s nomination. Woodruff made her demand during the February [...]
Women in the U.S. military can now serve in front-line posts, thanks to a directive recently signed by out-going Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Martin Dempsey. In other words, all positions in the military are now open to women, including direct-combat positions. One question that a civilian* may be asking is [...]
Chief Charlie Beck and L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa, Dec. 27, 2012 The L.A. Police Department had big news on December 27. They had seized a pair of rocket launchers! This, of course, would have been shocking news if only they really had found “rocket launchers” in the City of Angels. As the L.A. Police Department’s “gun [...]
Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Craig Pulsey is doing his part to make children at a Modesto, California elementary school feel safer – he’s standing watch out front of the school. Sacramento’s Fox40 reports: Craig Pulsey is outside of Hughson Elementary School in Hughson. He is a father, but his kid does not go to the [...]
Marine recruits go through the bayonet assault training course at Parris Island, S.C., on May 13, 2011. (Photo Credit DoD)
Making the rounds today is a report at (among other places) The Washington Free Beecon, that the Marines station at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo were not permitted to carry live ammunition: U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition, limiting their ability to [...]
. . . here are a few stories from below the fold. (May Doug forgive me. ) What Were They Thinking? – The G.I. Issue From an August 30th story published by the Daily Beast: Georgia prosecutors today will seek the death penalty against three non-commissioned officers based at Fort Stewart who are charged with [...]
Are you a patriotic American that thinks that our American way of life is in danger? Are you a Tea Partier? If so, Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants you to know that you might be a terrorist. Or, at least, the DHS wants to characterize you as a potential terrorist, anyway. Once again [...]
I understand drones are effective tools in our military’s aresenal. I understand they minimize the risk in-close fighting brings to our side. But there is something about this that’s more than a little chilling: Holloman sits on almost 60,000 acres of desert badlands, near jagged hills that are frosted with snow for several months of [...]
I think it’d be hard to find anyone who would not respect those belonging to the Special Operations community. These are the cream of the warrior crop who lay everything on the line for the mission and who earn our respect by their courageous deeds. They’ve found a new mission: Honorably discharged veterans of [...]
When you took your oath and put on that uniform, you stopped being a civilian, laying down your personal freedom and other rights. You gave Uncle Sam a blank check pertaining to your life, saying that Uncle Sam could do with you whatever was needed, including sending you into a situation in which you would [...]
After a morning in remembrance of our fallen troops and an afternoon firing up the gas grill to burn up a mess of burgers, hot dogs, and brats for my family as we observe what has become a traditional American Memorial day meal (Some of us in my household are working tomorrow, so we had [...]
For Memorial Day, I don’t usually post much, preferring to dedicate the day to memorializing our troops. To do that this year, I am going to share this story about the mettle of our troops. What follows are excerpts from remarks by Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly to the Semper Fi Society of St. [...]
Obama revealed the extent of his narcissism, his outsized sense of self-regard, this week during his hasty explanation of his flip flop on the issue of gay marriage. In his ABC News interview Obama waxed poetic about those American troops that he thinks are fighting for him as opposed to fighting for their country. During [...]
Obama must not have been paying too much attention to what his folks at NATO have been doing as they prepare for the summit coming up on May 20, 21 in Chicago because the new video touting the gathering has a few whoppers included. Namely that Chicago is the capital of Illinois (it isn’t) and [...]
In August of 2011, Brigadier General Charlotte L. Miller, California’s first Army female general, was “involuntarily separated” from the California National Guard for what she feels are invalid reasons. In fact, when the order originally came down there weren’t much by way of reasons even given. At last Miller is speaking out and making some [...]
Two stories I thought might be worth juxtaposing if only to help us all see more clearly as November approaches. First up, Obama to cut combat pay: Service members now will receive imminent danger pay only for days they actually spend in hazardous areas, Pentagon officials said here today. The change, which took effect yesterday, [...]
MSNBC: In a daring nighttime raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, who were being held by kidnappers in Somalia, U.S. officials tell NBC News. American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and a 60-year-old Dane, Poul Thisted, were working for a Danish relief organization in northern Somalia when they were kidnapped last October. U.S. officials [...]
That from Buck McKeon, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on Obama’s defense cuts: Perhaps it was a symbolic accident. On the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s announcement that America would build a space shuttle to explore new frontiers, Obama announces the results of his typically grandiosely-named Defense Strategic Review. Readers here will be shocked to [...]
There’s a hell of an ugly story going around involving the military and the remains of fallen troops. Apparently partial remains of several hundred of our men and women were disposed of in appalling ways — landfills and dumped into the sea. And most people who hear about this are outraged. I know I was [...]
CNS: The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals–or bestiality. … Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the effort to remove sodomy from military law stems [...]
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