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Archive for 'April,2009'

Badges of Honor and Integrity

This post is a comment on a question from a post on April 26, 2009 at PTSD, A Soldier’s Perspective, if you want to see the comment click here, if not read on. I wear my memorabilia [...]

Army IG System Unwieldy and Unhelpful

As many of you know, I am in the midst of an IG complaint – at least according to one of the worst formatted official letters I’ve ever received. I’ve made now two phone calls to [...]

A-10 Thunderbolt

I created this video last year at the Huntsville Air Show. For those that follow the news, this is the airshow in which a person was killed with a sudden storm blew over one of the [...]

New Mobile Design

Just a little tech update as all of you know I like to fiddle around with things. More and more people are using phones to browse the net and we here at A Soldier’s Perspective realize [...]

Great Americans

No, not the website this time. I’m talking about the people who go out of their way to take care of our troops. We often hear stories about people or businesses like Marriott who refuse military [...]

Troy Interviewed By GreatAmericans.com

Here are both parts of Troy’s interview with Matt Daniels of GreatAmericans.com. For the rest of the Milblog Conference interviews, check out all the interviews HERE. MilBlog Conference 2009 – Troy Steward, Bouhammer.com – Part 1 [...]

JP Interviewed By GreatAmericans.com

JP from Milblogging.com talks with Matt Daniels, President and founder of GreatAmericans.com during the 2009 Milblog Conference in Washington, D.C. MilBlog Conference 2009 – J.P. Borda, Milblogging.com – Part 1 of 2 – watch more videos [...]

Photos of the Day 27 Apr 09

Here are a couple of awesome photos that I wanted to share. I haven’t done these in a few days, so I’m going to post more than one. This week I’m going to highlight the United [...]

Seven Days in May” to Highlight 47 Films Honoring American GIs

GI Film Festival co-founders Brandon Millett and Major Laura Law-Millett present the line-up for the third annual festival showcasing the world’s best military films. The festival will run from May 12-18, 2009 at the prestigious Carnegie [...]

I’m In, I’m In

I can finally access my site from home again!! Woohoo! Turns out my ISP was did something about something and so something was causing me to be unable to access it. But, as of one minute [...]

More Stupid Crap to Say to a Combat Veteran

I picked up a my new Army Veteran hat that I just bought yesterday and hung it up on top of my Desert Storm hat. My desert storm hat has a Combat Infantry Badge (CIB) pin [...]

To the Shores of Tripoli

The Marine Corps Hymn starts with the line “From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli,” which recalls battles in Mexico and with Barbary Pirates in the early 1800′s. This year, piracy on the [...]

Paul Everett Update

I apologize for not posting this sooner. No excuse other than I kinda forgot and was being lazy while on paternity leave. Paul Everett was born on 20 March at 1830. He weighed7 lbs 15.3 oz [...]

Journalistic Ignorance

Within the services we love to screw with each other. Each service is better than the others in our eyes. The others are always inferior. But, when it comes down to it, we’re all in the [...]

President Obama’s Inaugural Benediction—A Slap in the Face to All White Americans

I watched President Obama’s inauguration on TV back in January.  As expected, he portrayed himself to be the Great Reconciliator as far as race relations are concerned.  I was impressed.  However, that all changed when Rev. [...]