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Wednesday Hero
2008-07-23 14:00:00 This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Toni 1st LT. Frank B. Walkup, IV 23 years old from Woodbury, Tennessee 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division June 16, 2007 Toni already has a great post up on her site, so I’ll just link to it. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives ...
Podcast on the ?Greatest Generation?
2008-07-22 22:33:00 I’ve been listening to many differents shows from Mormon Stories Podcast lately, which may seem ironic given my strong disagreements with the Mormon religion. Yet John Dehlin has provided a very interesting and critical examination of Mormon history that I find to be quite appealing. I’ve just finished listening to 3 shows that ...
By: GayPatriot
Acceptance of Gay People in Military Grows Dramatically
2008-07-21 20:39:00 A whopping 75% support among the general public according to new polling by The Washington Post & ABC News. Combined with the recently released study by retired military officers that “allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly is unlikely to pose any significant risk to morale, good order, discipline or cohesion”, and we’re seeing ...
By: GayPatriot
Top Military Leaders Support McCain
2008-07-16 19:28:00 Not that it is a major surprise, but noteworth nonetheless. I’m hoping John (AvgGayJoe) may have some thoughts on this letter, released earlier today. As retired military officers, we share a natural hesitancy to engage actively in politics. There is a healthy discomfort in our profession with any political involvement because the country rightly depends on ...
By: GayPatriot
Large Auction of Military Surplus Scrap Metals Now Bidding
2008-07-15 11:22:00 Auction 6744 - National Scrap Metals Auction Large lots of scrap metals (aluminum, steel, stainless, etc.) see li... more from scrapmetalprices...
Media Celebrates Successful U.S. Military Recruitment Stats? Not Really!
2008-07-13 18:44:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Armed Forces Press Service issued a press release on Thursday morning, July 10, in celebration of the fact that the U.S. military has had 13 consecutive months of meeting and/or exceeding recruitment goals. Sadly, the media stayed sullenly quite all day, taking no notice of the success of our military on ...
By: Publius Forum
Allowing Gays In Military Won?t Impact Unit Cohesion
2008-07-09 21:37:00 With my Mom doing much better, I returned to LA as planned today, but feel pretty drained, having chosen to spend more time with my brother (father to an energetic nephew) last night rather than go to bed at a decent hour, especially given my early departure (6 AM LA time) from Cincinnati this morning. As ...
By: GayPatriot
A Culprit In The Corporate Media Military Pivot
2008-07-07 20:28:00 We know about the furor a week ago yesterday when Gen. Wesley Clark, after paying tribute to all-but-named Repug presidential candidate John McBush's military service, said that that experience alone didn?t qualify McBush to be president, which is correct; no single experience by any presidential candidate, however admirable, does not automatically merit election to the presidency.Well, as The Carpetbagger Report tells us here, John Kerry appeared on Faze The Nation yesterday (stole that from a cartoon; can?t recall which one) and cited many of the flip-flops of ?Senator Honor And Virtue,? which earned Kerry the predictable scorn from our corporate media which Just Loves McBush So Stinkin? Much You Can?t Believe It.And if you don?t want to believe me, that?s OK; just check out the pic at the top of this post courtesy of Sam Loomis and The Daily Kos (apparently, writing favorable coverage about John W. McBush can earn a lucky journo the right to sit in preferred seating on his priva...
US Military Finding Many Terrorist Abroad Have Lived In The US
2008-07-06 13:37:00 In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.There was the suspected militant fleeing Somalia who had been arrested on a drug charge in New Jersey. And the man stopped at a checkpoint in Tikrit who claimed to be a dirt farmer but had 11 felony charges in the United States, including assault with a deadly weapon.The records suggest that potential enemies abroad know a great deal about the United States because many of them have lived here, officials said. The matches also reflect the power of sharing data across agencies and even countries, data that links an identity to a distinguishing human characteristic such as a fingerprint.SOURCE
16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo
2008-07-02 13:02:00 PARIS ? A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left 16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were used instead of blank ones, officials said. Four of the wounded were in serious condition, including a 3-year-old child, Bernard Lemaire, chief of the regional administration in Aude, said on France-3 television. Fifteen of the ...
By: TexasFred's
Wednesday Hero
2008-07-02 12:00:00 Click Image For Full SizeLance Cpl. Julie Martinez Lance Cpl. Julie Martinez, a radio operator with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, checks the communication capabilities during a backload of Marines from Combat Logistics Regiment 3 to the USS Essex June 9. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy ...
Obama Attack Machine Hits McCain?s Military Service
2008-07-02 00:47:00 Sometimes, when true believers come up to me and ask if I “Know Jesus Christ as my personal savior”, I answer: “Know Him? I almost got my a** shot off for him”. That usually confuses them and shuts them up long enough for me to get away. But my point was that words are cheap, and that ...
Wednesday Hero
2008-06-25 07:00:00 This Weeks Hero Was Suggested by Mary Ann Staff Sgt. Jude Voss 1st Battalion, 3d Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Military Scrap Metal Auction for 60,000 lbs of Manganese, Aluminum, Silicon
2008-06-19 08:35:00 LOT (60, 000) LBS APPROX MANGANESE, NICKEL, ALUMINUM, AND SILICONE BRONZE SCRAP. THIS IS A ONE YEAR TERM COMTRACT LOCATED AT PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD To bid on this EVENT 6771, g... more from scrapmetalprices...
Democrats Try to Make Military Press Conferences Illegal
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Congressional Democrats announced early in May that they wanted to make “military propaganda” illegal. To achieve this goal they passed new legislation that strengthened previous legislation that is supposed to ban the Pentagon from indulging in “propaganda” for the military. This bill is supposed to stop the military from sending “any form of ...
By: Publius Forum
India?s Navy Expanding Rapidly
2008-06-10 18:16:00 I’ve been reading about this for several years now, how India’s “blue water fleet” and submarine capacity is rapidly expanding. Given it’s population size, available resources and increasing technological capabilities, this increase of their naval abilities definitely makes them a regional power to be reckoned with. This could make our own interests in ...
By: GayPatriot
Egyptian Bloggers Lead Human Rights Fight
2008-06-10 15:09:00 In a nation of eighty million which contains about forty million illiterate people, highly educated individuals who have access to the computers and the Internet increasingly are becoming voices protesting human rights abuses. Blogger Karim el-Behein described his imprisonment and torture in a jail because he supported worker efforts at a textile mill to obtain ...
Chinese Students Riot And Fight Police
2008-06-10 14:40:00 Chinese students clashed with security forces at a military school in eastern China over a dispute about their degrees. About fifty students were wounded in last week’s dispute at the Artillery Corps Institute in Nanjing. “They mercilessly beat the students” said Liu Qijun, parent of one of those sent to the hospital. The outbreak occurred ...
We Have Lost a Friend and a Military Dog Brat
2008-06-09 22:44:00 We named her after the President of Iceland in the early 90s and had to spell it wherever we went! Vigdis joined the family in Annandale, VA after our return from Iceland in 1992 when I was assigned to the Pentagon. She never left our side for 16 years. She played with us, our neighbors' dogs, our friends and eventually our grandsons too! Always friendly but also a defender in time of need. Her picture doesn't reflect the German Shepherd in her but her heart did! An intruder found out the hard way one evening! She hated air travel but loved the freedom of a large yard at McChord AFB and one evening at Charleston AFB she decided to go on her "own" walk on the trail around the base! Friends saw her on the trail and called us and we think she did the loop like we did as a family! She came home tail wagging and seemingly telling us she didn't need us all the time! Described in her older age as "Gentle Vigdis" she could take a treat from a one year old without touching their...
U.S. Sues Maker of Body-Armor Material
2008-06-09 20:58:00 From DefenseNews.com, by Antonie Boessenkool (via Blackwater Newswletter) Honeywell International is facing a lawsuit by the United States claiming that the company knew Zylon Shield, which Honeywell made and sold as the as the key ballistic material in bullet-proof vests, degraded in hot and humid conditions but didn’t tell the maker of the vests, Armor Holdings, ...
Zimbabwe: Military Junta in all-out war against the people
2008-06-09 16:19:00 I see that western diplomats in Zimbabwe and mainstream media have finally woken up to the fact that Mugabe is nothing more than a figurehead. Catherine Philip of the Times in London reports online today that, ?The campaign of terror sweeping Zimbabwe is being directly organised by a junta that took over the running of ...
3 Ways to Improve Obama's Popularity with the Military
2008-06-08 17:39:00 "The reality is that Republican politicians are much more popular among service-members than their Democratic counterparts...whether or not these criticisms are warranted is irrelevant. The fact remains that Obama?s popularity is lacking with service-members and their families. Here are three things he can do to boost his popularity." read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Israel? Gaza Invasion Or Peace?
2008-06-08 09:02:00 During the past few years, Israel and the United States have jointly pursued a policy of non-engagement with Hamas. The result of this foreign policy approach bears scant evidence of success. The Israel government is presently confronting a situation in which it could invade Gaza or whether it could risk accepting Egypt’s offer of a ...
Conservationists alledge police and military involvement in wildlife trade
2008-06-08 08:33:00 Northern Sumatra: Non-governmental organizations have recently alledged that the police and military are systematically involved in the illegal trade of endangered species in northern Sumatra. They said that police and military officers were involved in the transportation of animals such as the Sumatran tiger and anteater found in protected forests in Riau, North Sumatra and Aceh, ...
SecDef To Air Force Leaders: Your Fired
2008-06-08 04:43:00 Secretary of Defense Gates was doing his best impression of The Donald, when he dismissed the top two officials in the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and General Michael Moseley. The move was prompted by Air Force’s mishandling of nuclear weapons and its reluctance to support the war in Iraq. John ...
By: Dreadnaught
[Photoshop] Photoshop these? uh? military guys doing something weird
2008-06-08 01:54:00 (Some Civilian)
Venezuela fires missiles in exercises
2008-06-07 23:05:00 Venezuela fired live missiles from fighter jets and ships Friday during exercises intended to demonstrate the firepower of President Hugo Chavez’s military. Smoke rose from ships off the La Orchila island military base as Otomat MK2 missiles arced into the sky and Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets flew in formation. The televised war games allowed the military to ...
By: 1913 Intel
Medal Of Honor Parent Backs Jim Webb G.I.Bill
2008-06-07 09:00:00 The parents of Sgt. Ross McGinnis, who died while valiently trying to save the lives of his comrades, used the occasion for receiving their dead son’s Medal of Honor to support efforts to further the education rights of soldiers and veterans. Bill McGinnis said “I feel there is someone out there more important than(my wife) ...
Military Bank licensed to launch domestic factoring service
2008-06-07 03:35:00 Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Military Bank) recently was licensed to carry out the domestic factoring specification (meaning the buying of trade debt of a manufacturer, assuming the task of debt collection and accepting the credit risk, provide manufacturer with working capital) according to State Bank of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Poll: Only 7% Support Taking Military Action Against Iran
2008-06-06 22:34:00 According to a new poll from Public Agenda, nearly 50 percent of those who follow the situation in Iran say ?the one? best way to deal with Iran is through using diplomacy ?to establish better relations.? Only five percent favor threatening military action, down from nine percent in fall 2007. Seven percent support taking military action. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Remember D-Day
2008-06-06 20:40:00 Without the brave sacrifice that so many men made on this day to take a stand against an evil Nazi empire, we would not have the freedoms we have today and many nations would not be where they are today without this sacrifice. God Bless those brave souls for sacrificing so much for our ...
Help A Wounded Vet
2008-06-06 18:14:00 Here are the Amazon Wish lists for the men and women recovering at the Brooke Army Medical Center and Walter Reed Medical Center. Please take a moment and pick something out for those who’ve sacrificed so much for our country! h/t - Ace of Spades – John (Average Gay Joe)
By: GayPatriot
Air Force Senior Leadership Fired!
2008-06-06 16:15:00 For the first time in history, both the civilian and military leadership of a military service have been fired. Yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates requested the resignations of the Secretary of the Air Force, Michael Wynne, and the Air Force Chief of Staff, T. Michael Mosley, for failing to secure the country’s nuclear arsenal. ...
By: shyspeak.net
The Results of Military Investigation into 4 Nuclear Fuses
2008-06-06 05:33:00 Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the findings of the report regarding the Taiwan shipments Thursday and said there has been an erosion of performance standards and there are systemic weaknesses in the Air Force’s nuclear arsenal program. As a result Gates said he consulted with the president and asked Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne the ...
Haditha Update: Lt Grayson Not Guilty
2008-06-06 05:19:00 Lt Andrew Grayson was acquitted on 4JUN08. According to reports: Cheers erupted as the seven-officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths linked to the war. The verdict came just five hours after deliberations began. Two Marines still face courts-martial ...
By: Dreadnaught
Tom Cruise Plays German Officer Who Attempts To Kill Hitler: Best Comments
2008-06-06 04:44:00 The original blog post is just information about Tom Cruise finishing the filming of the movie Valkyrie. In Valkyrie, Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an officer in the 6th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht Herr, who attempts to assassinate Hitler. This is not what makes this post great; it is the comments. Comment ...
By: Dreadnaught
British Air Power Doctrine, Third Edition
2008-06-06 04:40:00 The Royal Air Force has been in the vanguard of thinking on Air Power since the publication of its first statement on doctrine in 1928. Today the generation of Air Power must take into account both ‘jointery’ and multinational operations - themes that are reflected in the focus of this document and its title. Thus, the third edition of British...
By: Asiaing.com
Military Bank applies maximum deposit rate of 15.2% per year
2008-06-06 02:15:00 From June 3, Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB) officially adjusted dong deposit rates whereby the new interest rate was raised by 0.7% to 1% per year for all terms. In particular, the maximum deposit rate of 15.2% per year is applied on terms of 12 months and 24 months, from 3, 6 and 9 months 15.1% per year... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
9/11 Defendants Charged by U.S. Military at Gitmo
2008-06-05 21:59:00 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba - A military court at this remote U.S. outpost is in the process of a grinding hearing in which five Sept. 11 plotters are being charged with murdering 2,973 Americans. It’s the first time Al Qaeda “military commander” Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, facilitator Ramzi Binalshibh, USS Cole mastermind Walid Ba Attash, and money men Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa al-Hawsawi have been seen publicly since their individual captures. I was in the courtroom for...(read more)
Leaked: U.S. Plans To Keep 50 Bases In Iraq
2008-06-05 20:22:00 By now it’s pretty clear that the U.S. government is incapable of keeping secrets. So not surprisingly, our plans for future involvement in Iraq have been leaked. Much to the shock and horror of Democrats, the so-called “Strategic Alliance” that President Bush is planning to get signed next month In Baghdad is certainly raising eyebrows. America currently ...
By: The Hot Joints
D.C. Police Setup Military Style Checkpoints To Curb Gun Violence
2008-06-05 18:18:00 The Trinidad area of Washington D.C. is like a war zone. Since April 1, the Trinidad neighborhood has had seven homicides, 16 robberies and 20 assaults. They’ve had 22 homicides total so far this year, which is 1 more than all of last year. The violence has become so severe that D.C. Police have resorted to ...
By: The Hot Joints
DC Police Setting Up Military Type Checkpoints
2008-06-05 16:21:00 Read this for yourself: D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint Now, most of the nervous nellies in Amerika would happily go along with this, seeing nothing wrong with this level of draconian control. Don’t have any officially approved business for being here? Then leave. I however, have a BIG problem with ...
EADS : L'Airbus Military reporte le premier vol de l'A400M
2008-06-05 12:40:00 L'Airbus Military, filiale principale du groupe de European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS), a décidé de repousser au 31 août, le premier vol de l'avion de transport militaire A400M, ont rapporté mercredi les médias français. Selon Le Figaro, l'Airbus Military a informé l'Organisation européenne de coopération en matière d'armement (Occar) qu'elle repoussait au 31 août, soit d'un mois par rapport à l'objectif initial, le premier vol de l'A400M. Auparavant, le groupe EADS avait également déclaré un retard de livraisons d'A400M de six à douze mois, en raison d'une lente progression du développement du moteur.
?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell,? Should We Be Asking Now?
2008-06-05 09:47:00 Sam Nunn, former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committe, and an individual who played a key role in developing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays and lesbians in the 1990s is now raising questions about the policy’s relevance to modern times. Nunn worked with Professor Charles Moskos in developing the policy during ...
Blackwater v. Judge Ryan: Malpractice Suit Dismissed
2008-06-05 03:02:00 That litigious private army Blackwater had their malpractice suit against Wiley Rein and C.A.A.F. Judge Margaret A. Ryan dismissed by the D.C. Superior Court. Blackwater filed the lawsuit in January 2008, claiming Wiley lawyers, including Judge Ryan, neglected critical case law while defending a wrongful-death case brought on behalf of four Blackwater employees ...
By: Dreadnaught
Insurgent: Marines! They?re everywhere!
2008-06-05 01:33:00 A Marine in Iraq wonders why American media can’t seem to grasp the progress that’s been made… From an entertaining mil-blogger, One Marine’s view… Local Sheiks in our area have continued to tell of stories about how life was with Al-Qaida present. The evil that existed and now, its not a new way of life, it?s a ...
Chilly Dogs: A Cool Solution For Military Working Dogs
2008-06-05 00:03:00 Military Working Dogs (MWD) are often on the front lines with our troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have saved countless lives by locating explosive-laden vehicles, improvised explosive devices (IED) and weapons caches intended for use on U.S. troups. Chilly Dogs are now helping MWDs protect our troops. Technorati Tags: Health International Invention Inventor Miscellaneous Outdoors Pets Products Technology
By: InventorSpot.com
To Our Military Families: America Supports You
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