From the Command Post: Operation Thunder - 40,000 troops. 40 thousand Iraqi troops.
Excellent!! The Iraqis may have taken the 1st step to self-stabilized nationhood.
Fox News reports on octogenarian Japanese soldiers still holding out on Mindanao
Five manuscripts of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau have been discovered at different times between 1945 and 1980.
Capt. Aubrey remarked in Master and Commander: “What a wonderful, modern time we live in.”
Well, Captain, I am beginning to think that precious little “good” can be had in these modern times. You mentor, Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson of the Nile MUST be spinning underneath St. Paul’s.
As the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar approaches, Her […]
GQ’s about to put in for repairs. I’m upgrading Wordpress. Things may look dodgy for a bit but she’ll be afloat again soon.
Matador looks to have been a smashing success. The Marines never seem to disappoint, regardless of the task assigned them.
What will be critical is not letting the area backslide after the operation, as happened all too often in VietNam (the example of how NOT to fight a war, of course). I don’t expect […]
“I’m shocked.”
Well, not really.
Amused is more like it.
This is nothing like the Newsweek fiasco, but it’s on the scope, or at least ought to be.
Background: Micheal Crook, of Syracuse NY, has an axe to grind with the US Army. He tried to enlist in 1999, his explanation, by the way, but […]
So their retraction has happened, but Al Qaeda now has a MONSTROUSLY strong recruiting tool. How many people died because of their outright fallacy?
I can differentiate between this in the case for the Iraq war; anyone who asserts that Hussein was guiltless before the UN must have slept through the 1990s. One HAS […]
If you are a Texas resident and a member of, or honorably discharged from the military and a second amendment supporter, House Bill 322 in the Texas Legislature is of interest as is House Bill 685. HB 322 reduces the cost of a concealed carry permit and HB 685 eliminates the requirement for range instruction […]
Spook86 has what he calls a draft of the Base Realignment and Closing list - the official version will be released by the Pentagon in two days.
Bases slated for closure:
Army
1. Carlisle Barracks, PA
2. Detroit Arsenal, MI
3. Ft Belvoir, VA
4. Ft Buchanan, PR
5. Ft McPherson, GA
6. Ft Monmouth, NJ
7. Ft Monroe, VA
8. Ft Richardson, AK
9. […]
Here is an account of perhaps the single luckiest NFO in recent history!
WOW!
Tip of the hat to DK in Sand Dog, Kalifornistan.
Remembering the mothers who’s children are “over there.”
Marine Corps Moms
Soldier’s Angels
Michelle has more.
Absolutely righteous! ‘Nuff Said.
It’s not Navy related, but it deserves mention. From The Daily Brief, I read the sad news that the great (though he wouldn’t call himself that) Col. David Hackworth died Thursday. His website has his bio. It is one of the most impressive military bio’s I’ve read. My best to his family. He will be […]