General Quarters

I’m not.
Not thaI planned to see it. I read a review that was, well, pretty emphatic as to it’s suckitude.
Know what I’m talking about???? If not, here’s Apple’s triler site.

Brazo Zulu to The Officers’ Club.
Firepower Forward is a blog run by a US Army Major in Afghanistan whose tour is wrapping up.
Any blogger who can hammer Arianna Huffington like this is AOK in my book.
Dear Ms. Huffington,
Ms. Huffington, your January 9th column is not only grossly misleading, it is irresponsible. Clearly relying on […]

1) How long till the next suicide attack in Israel?
2) How long till Israel invades (to secure the area, so to say)?
3) How’s the Iranian manure affect all this?
1) With a *known* anti-Israeli organization in power in Palestine, I fully expect that terror attacks will spike, regardless of anything the PA […]

The Officers’ Club (again) finds a goodie.
In short, the President and SecDef have, since 2002, had the Armed Forces continually refining plans for unwarned strikes against Iran and North Korea in order to defang these cruds.
You can read the WaPo column outlining it here.
Since at least the middle of 2004, U.S. long-range bombers and submarines […]

I heard a theory last week: that the truce offer was offered in the full knowledge that it will be refused.
The end result being this: under Sharia, OBL now has a moral carte blanche to kill whomever, wherever, however he desires. His offer, now refused, means that there are now no “innocents” here. […]

Ladies and Gentlemen of our Armed Forces:
I’ve been reading up on this Iranian nonsense, and there’s not a lick of sense in the Iranian Government these days it seems.
Ahmadinejad with nuclear weapons. Hitler in the Rhineland (hat tip to Vodkapundit’s comments).
Sadly, it smells kinda like that. I’m beginning to be genuinely fearful that […]

In today’s Dallas Morning News, Robert Kaplan had a column on how the armed forces are overwhelmingly Republican voters, and why this is so.
It’s a fairly blunt look at some reasons as he observed during 2 embeds with our troops.
The problem for the Democrats today is that they are, in the current form, wholly […]

Spending all next week in Toronto. Fortunately, it’ll only be +/- a couple of degrees from 0C. This Texan will still be cold though.

From Malkin’s site:
Near the end of the marathon session, a Vietnam veteran, General Wagner, stepped up to the microphone to deliver a message from the mother of an Iraqi war vet who gave his life for his country and for the mission. After reading a scathing letter addressed to Murtha, Wagner talked about his own […]

On the web, the term “pwned” is really very juvenile, but, damn, that is the one and only word I can think of to describe fully this gem on the Mudville Gazette.
Video from CSPAN here.
Uurah to Malkin.
“Yes sir my name is Mark Seavey and I just want to thank you for coming up here. Until […]

In Ramadi, Staff Sergeant Jim Gilliland, who hunted squirrels as kid, then deer, then men (as stated in the article), registered a kill from 1250 meters with the M24 .308 sniper rifle.
The max range on his Leupold scope? 1000 meters. 25% beyond his “maximum” range.
The article is from the Brit paper […]

I’m wanting to add in more USMC stuff, since the dogs have always received the short shrift.
While looking for stuff on the Corps’ site, I see a link for General Officer bios. Deceased General Officers. OK.
So, I’m scanning the list, and I see an Aggie on there - Bruno Hochmuth. We […]