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Somebody?s Son
2012-02-04 02:16:00 (linking to Airman Mom’s Friday post Somebody’s Son ) Lance Cpl. Nick Lacarra, a 20-year-old improvised explosive device detection dog handler with Combined Anti-Armor Team 2, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and a native of Long Beach, Calif., holds security in a field with his dog Coot while halted during a partnered security ...
Taliban planning to take over Afghanistan when U.S. Leaves?
2012-02-02 16:56:00 Wonder if this report will change the president’s mind about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan: A NATO report leaked to British news outlets found that Taliban leaders are confident they will regain power in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdraws, and said the insurgency has not been seriously eroded by the military efforts of America and ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2012-02-01 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Cindy Pfc. Donny Eslinger & Smoke 20 years old from Jemison, Alabama 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Bravo Company It was a mission just as important as any other they had encountered during their time in Afghanistan. This time the 1-24 ...
Somebody?s Son
2012-01-28 03:41:00 (linking to Airman Mom’s Somebody’s Son post ) Lance Cpl. Shane W. Stokes, a Springfield, Mo., native and an infantryman with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, walks with a new friend he met while patrolling through a local bazaar. Mobs of curious children following patrols became a common sight in the village of ...
Surfing the Web..
2012-01-28 03:36:00 Where I pass on items I find in my 'surfs' around the web From the Lancaster Eagle Gazette, a nice story Soldier sends flag to pen pals at Lancaster school and from WDAM in MS Camp Shelby soldiers star in a movie to save lives Red Bull Rising has a Book Review: Until Tuesday and ...
The Urination Relativism
2012-01-13 19:26:00 From the New York Post: (h/t – Instapundit) For our part, we?re withholding judgment. There have been too many such seemingly shocking episodes that, upon investigation, turn out to be less than that. The high-profile case of Marine Lt. Ilario Pantano ? accused of murdering Iraqis, but exonerated late last year ? certainly illustrates the ...
By: GayPatriot
Somebody?s Son
2012-01-06 14:38:00 (linking to Airman Mom’s Friday post Somebody’s Son ) SANGIN, Afghanistan (Dec. 27, 2011) Hospitalman Victor Castro, assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 8, hands out candy to an Afghan child during a security patrol in Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Marines conducted the patrol to help maintain security in the ...
Shocker: Egyptian islamists vow not to recognize Israel
2012-01-01 14:39:00 And why would they? I mean islam only commands them to conquer, subjugate or kill all who oppose them, so it comes naturally that they would abhor the Jewish State. Israel, by the way is the lone prosperous nation in the middle east. It is also the only one that has virtually nothing to do ...
Wednesday Hero
2011-12-07 14:00:00 This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Mrs Xoke Sgt. 1st Class Bryan E. Hall 32 years old from Elk Grove, California 1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division April 10, 2009 Bryan Hall received three Army commendation medals, as well as good Army achievement, good conduct and war on terrorism ...
Muslim Brotherhood Takes Egypt by Storm
2011-12-02 01:20:00 YAY Arab Spring!!!! Judges overseeing the vote count in Egypt’s parliamentary elections say Islamist parties have won a majority of the contested seats in the first round. The judges spoke on condition of anonymity because official results are expected to be released later Thursday. They say the Muslim Brotherhood could take 45 percent of the ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2011-11-30 16:00:00 Spc. Joseph A. Graves 21 years old from Discovery Bay, California 110th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade July 26, 2006 Spc. Joseph Graves’s dream was to work for the FBI and he saw that joining the Military was a way to help me do that. Joseph Graves enlisted in ...
3/5 Darkhorse: A Year Later
2011-11-13 17:22:00 In 2010, 1,000 Marines from 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 3/5 Darkhorse, were deployed to Afghanistan. During their seven month deployment they lost 25 men and suffered nearly 200 wounded. A year later NPR is doing a seven part series on 3/5 Darkhorse. They have six parts up already, but part four seem to be missing. ...
Veterans Day
2011-11-11 14:00:00 To all the Men and Women who’ve ever worn the uniform, Thank You. Below is what I posted last year. I thought I would use it again. Some have fought and bled for us while others never saw action. Yet they are all Heroes who deserve our deepest respect and thanks. They’ve done so much, ...
HALLOWEEN TERROR ALERT
2010-10-29 20:01:00 Is there an active terror operation, or test-of-security, underway now in the USA by Al-Qaeda of Yemen? FOX NEWS URGENT: U.S. and international authorities investigate whether multiple suspicious packages originating from Yemen found aboard UPS flights landing in Newark, N.J., Philadelphia and England are part of a terror group’s rehearsal for a mail bomb attack. CBS News reports ...
By: GayPatriot
The War on Terror Becomes The War for Metals
2010-06-14 21:45:00 The smoking gun? Pentagon announces $1 trillion worth of metal deposits in Afghanistan. Legal Ponzi scheme: N.Y. ?fixes? its state pension shortfall? by borrowing from the same pension fund. Chris Mayer offers an intriguing penny stock speculation: A ?too big to fail? bank for $3 a share, trading at 75% of book value. Plus, your reports from the front lines: Readers on the state of (un)employment in the U.S.
Troops Not Too Thrilled With New ROE
2009-12-13 16:21:00 NPR has a good piece up about some of the frustrations our troops face with the new Rules Of Engagement in Afghanistan.
A GTL? Guest Column By ?Bad Dog? ? ?Republican Calls for Civility: Just Ano
2009-09-19 22:45:00 “Republican Calls for Civility: Just Another Wingnut Sham” Yet Another Guest Column — This One By The One And ONLY BAD DOG” In my last column, I pointed out what should be obvious to anybody paying attention?that Republicans have one moral code that applies to themselves,... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Wednesday Hero
2009-09-16 14:00:00 This Week’s Post Is Via Gazing At The Flag PFC Thomas Lowell Tucker 24 years old from Madras, Oregon B Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division June 16, 2006 Flag Gazer has a great post up on the dedication of the PFC Thomas Tucker memorial. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives ...
Commander In Chief Ignores Troops on Eve of 9/11 Anniversary
2009-09-10 05:51:00 Unlike Dan (below), I did watch the president’s speech to Congress tonight and couldn’t have been more disappointed in his choices. While there is a lot to say that I’ll address when I get a chance to reflect a bit more on the text of the speech, I didn’t want to go to bed tonight before ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero Year Three, Pt. II
2009-09-09 16:38:00 This would have been with last weeks post, but Kathi, who’s done these for the past three years without even being asked to do so, was super busy and wasn’t able to get to it. So after you view it, head over to her site and thank her.
President George W. Bush II President Barack Hussein Obama Wishes To Take O
2009-08-29 05:27:00 Troubling Thought — What, EXACTLY, Constitutes A “Cyber Emergency”? That’s correct, folks — many of we “Civil Libertarian Liberal” types are more than a LITTLE bit concerned over a newly-proposed Senate bill (55 pages — S.773) designed to give the... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Wednesday Hero
2009-08-26 14:00:00 Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson, the electronic warfare officer of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, talks with local Iraqi kids while on a patrol. Photo courtesy of United States Army Taken by Pfc. Evan Loyd These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others ...
Will Obama Have A ?Torture Czar??
2009-08-25 12:39:00 An Instapundit reader thinks so. ?A senior administration official told The Associated Press Monday that Obama has approved establishment of the new unit, to be known as the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which will be overseen by the National Security Council. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the program has not yet been officially announced.? Reader ...
By: GayPatriot
BOMBSHELL: ACLU Accused of Passing Personal Information about CIA agents to
2009-08-21 14:37:00 Just when you think the American liberal left can sink no lower to weaken their own nation…. WASHINGTON POST: The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2009-08-19 14:00:00 Pfc. Tavonte Johnson Pfc. Tavonte Johnson, a field radio operator with Headquarters Company, 7th Marine Regiment, provides security after a simulated attack by a suicide bomber on Aug. 8, as part of 7th Marine Regimentâ??s pre-deployment training exercise. Photo courtesy of United States Marine Corps These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that ...
Wednesday Hero
2009-08-05 14:00:00 Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello 19 years old from Denver, Colorado 1st Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force November 8, 2005
On GITMO, Once Again, We?re Not Even Discussing Reality
2009-08-04 02:41:00 Similar to the point I made over the weekend about most of the health care debate missing the point, that it should be about individual liberty, not about cost savings or sad-sack stories about people in need (a point, of course, even better made by Mark Steyn in the NRO piece to which I linked), ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2009-07-22 14:00:00 Assoluta Tranquillita did a post a few days ago and after last week’s Wednesday Hero felt it would be good to profile Sgt. 1st Class Gabe of the 178th Military Police Detachment, 20th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. Is it wrong to be jealous of a dog? Be sure to read ...
Wednesday Hero
2009-07-15 14:00:00 Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez & Jacko 35 years old from Weidman, Michigan K-9 unit of the 527th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th MP Brigade September 2, 2008
Democrats Upset that Bush Administration had Secret Effort to Kill or Captu
2009-07-13 18:27:00 All weekend, we’d be hearing how upset Democrats were about a CIA program the Bush Administration kept secret from Congress. With the high dudgeon typical of their criticism of Bush, they made it seem this was some program which violated the constitution, infringed on our civil liberties and just plain showed what horrible, no good ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2009-07-08 14:00:00 Cpl. Reynold Armand 21 years old from Rochester, New York 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force August 7, 2007
US Soldier Captured in Afghanistan
2009-07-02 17:29:00 This is depressing news. My prayers go out to him and his family. Please let’s all pay attention to what is going on in both Iraq and Afghanistan! CAMP LEATHERNECK, July 2 — A U.S. soldier missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan since Tuesday is believed to have been captured by Taliban militants, the ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2009-07-01 14:50:00 Force Protection Team Members of the force protection team at Camp Eggars, Afghanistan, assess damage resulting from an explosion near the gate. A vehicle-born improvised explosive device exploded near the German Embassy and a U.S. base. Eliminating threats such as the VBIED is the focus of Army’s 3rd Counter-IED Conference that was scheduled July 28-30. These brave ...
George Eliot?s Additional Insight on Iran:The ?Great Satan? is Necessary to
2009-06-27 20:21:00 It is incredible how prescient this woman, who died approximately one century before Iran’s Islamic “Revolution, was. As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashes out at President Obama for interfering in Iranian affairs, it becomes increasingly clear to all but the most narrow-minded ideologues that nothing the United States can do or say, no matter how our ...
By: GayPatriot
Open Thread Friday At The GTL? ? Michael Jackson? Obama Waffling On Indefi
2009-06-27 04:42:00 Readers And Commentators -slash- Co-Bloggers — Your Turn To Set The Agenda Once Again Really, I don’t have writer’s block today — I could write several essays -slash- columns on a variety of topics but I really don’t know where to begin. On the plus side, the last... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
On Islamofascism, George Eliot Gets Got It
2009-06-23 22:38:00 In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Newsweek ran a cover study asking, “Why Do they Hate Us?” as if the cause of animosity to the United States lay in the object not the subject. They could use the very logic of that question to determine that gay-bashers are not to blame for attacking gay people ...
By: GayPatriot
Obama Needs Articulate American Ideals, Praise Iranian Protestors
2009-06-22 09:51:00 Like many Americans on both sides of the political aisle, I follow the events in Iran sensing we are witnessing something of great historical significance. It reminds me of the fall of 1989 when I would return home from work and flip on CNN (then the only 24-hour cable news network) to learn of the ...
By: GayPatriot
On Wearing Green for Iran
2009-06-22 00:08:00 On Friday night in synagogue, I approached a left-of-center friend of mine, like me, wearing a green shirt. I asked if she were wearing that color “for the right reason.” Indeed, she was, replying that this was one issue, like Darfur, where conservatives and liberals were in agreement. While I would dare say there are few ...
By: GayPatriot
Blood, Fire & Ice Cream
2009-06-21 16:44:00 What a big contrast of photos this weekend…. heroes and cowards While the Iranian people are yearning for freedom from a dictator and putting their lives on the line — President Obama chooses not to golf this weekend, but rather to go get some ice cream. I am confident that Presidents Reagan, Bush (both) and Clinton would ...
By: GayPatriot
Would There Be Green In Iran Without Purple In Iraq?
2009-06-20 00:47:00 I have been following the demonstrations in Iran this past week with great interest. I was a young boy in 1979 when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah and led to a decades-long cold and hard war with the West. It is my firm belief that the events in Iran in 1979 were the beginning of ...
By: GayPatriot
Does Obama Share Jimmy Carter?s Naiveté about the World?
2009-06-18 00:06:00 Given the parallels between the various world and economic crises in the late 1970s and today as well as the world views of the Democratic Presidents then and now, some are wondering if it’s 1979 all over again. Back then, we saw unrest in Iran, with mass demonstrations in the streets. Government spending was skyrocketing ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2009-06-17 14:00:00 Pvt. William Long 23 years old from Conway, Arkansas D Company, 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry June 1, 2009
Wednesday Hero
2009-06-10 14:00:00 Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marc A. Lee 28 years old from Hood River, Oregon Navy SEAL August 2, 2006
Osama Bin Laden?s Recruiting Numbers For al-Qaeda Down Thanks To The Electi
2009-06-04 05:44:00 A Desparate UBL To Fellow Terr’ists: No, No, NO, BELIEVE ME — B. Hussein O. Is STILL The Head Of The Great Satan! We Must Not Stop Hating America!!! As we all know, Osama Bin Laden was cheering very vigorously for the Palin-McCain ticket to win in ‘08 so as to keep the al-Qaeda... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
A Fallen American Hero: Pvt. William Long
2009-06-03 23:45:00 Here is the photo of a true American hero. It isn’t a photo that is being run 24/7 on NBC, CNN, CBS or even FOX News. This is a man who, along with this family, volunteered to serve his nation in a time of war and paid the ultimate price on his nation’s own soil. It ...
By: GayPatriot
Wednesday Hero
2009-06-03 13:00:00 Sgt. Pablo A. Calderon 26 years old from Brooklyn, New York 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division November 30, 2004
Obama Blames Bush While Adopting his Policies
2009-05-23 01:44:00 Sometimes, when events of the day prevent me from blogging on something in a timely manner, by the time I sit down to write, I found that other bloggers (or pundits) have pretty much said what I have to say–and often better than I could say it. And in the case of the dueling speeches ...
By: GayPatriot
Jennifer Rubin: How Obama Fails Leadership Test
2009-05-22 23:18:00 Writing about the President’s speech yesterday, Jennifer Rubin faults the Democrat for trying to “soothe all parties and charm even the most virulent foes of the United States” instead of setting a course and leading the nation: Leadership involves setting a course, persuading others to follow, and steeling oneself against the inevitable criticism with confidence that ...
By: GayPatriot
Text Of Former Vice President Dick Cheney Is Thousands Of Words Long ? The
2009-05-22 05:06:00 A Plea For Kindness, Lenience And Mercy From The Former “Fourth Superbranch To The New Obama Administration” Okay, so by now we’ve all heard about the big, huge so-called “debate” between the man who infamously shot a lawyer in the face on a drunken duck hunting outing... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Wednesday Hero
2009-05-20 12:00:00 Sgt. Christian E. Bueno-Galdos 25 years old from Paterson, New Jersey 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade May 11, 2009 |
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