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Archive for 'May,2009'

Can White Soldiers Be a Minority?

The ratio of the races within a group of Soldiers does not matter: white Soldiers will always be the majority. This is supported by the fact that there is not one passage in any of [...]

The Future of American Military Might: Versatile or Specialized?

There is a lot of discussion right now about what the future of our Army will look like. The discussion can be whittled to two camps: those that want the Army compartmentalized into specialized units trained [...]

Attention all White Soldiers: You’re RACIST!

According to the Army’s Equal Opportunity (EO) Program, only white Soldiers are capable of racism. [...]

The New York Jihad

I hate to beat the drum about a book I recently read titled “The Islamist” by Ed Hussain, but this video is just the beginning of our problems. It was taken on April 15, 2009 in [...]

President Obama Honors Fallen at Arlington

I’ve got the text of Obama’s speech at Arlington National Cemetery today up on the You Served blog. He made the speech after laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. You can read [...]

A day of most respectful remembrance

Please visit these links of remembrance from the Alabama blogosphere on this sacred day of our Fallen: Memorial Day, remembrance Memorial Day Open Thread – Caring for Veterans is Harder than Slapping a Yellow Ribbon on the Car [...]

Memorial Day Tribute

I originally published this last September, but wanted to repost it for Memorial Day. The following poem was written by Linda J. (Gustafson) Newlin for her brother and to honor our men and women who so [...]

North Korea Tests Another Nuclear Bomb; Obama Presses for More Talks

This one equal in size to the ones used in Hiroshima by some estimates. “The danger posed by North Korea’s threatening activities warrants action by the international community,” Mr Obama said in a written statement. So, [...]

The Soldier as a System… is it Hype?

A story ran in the New York Post… when you quit laughing I will continue. The subject of this story is the Soldier of the Future. I read it and it is full of the year [...]

Beating a Dead Horse

This weekend has brought a lot of talk from the Executive Branch of government on military and national security issues. I hate to keep pounding the Obama drum, but I can’t let this one go. During [...]

HotAir and Media Get It Wrong

As I wrote about earlier, President Barack Obama met with the Pittsburgh Steelers this past Thursday. HotAir.com picked up on an NBC story about a group of Kindergartners who were late for a White House tour [...]

StoryCorps – Allen Hoe

I got an email recently from a project called StoryCorps. StoryCorps is America’s largest nonprofit national oral history project. In StoryCorps‘ latest story to broadcast on NPR, Allen Hoe, whose son died while serving with the [...]

Obama Addresses US Naval Academy Graduation

President Obama spoke to the graduating midshipmen of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD today. During the speech, he “officially absolved” all minor infractions for which the cadets were on restriction, emphasizing only the “minor” [...]

The Islamist (A Book Review)

Whether folks want to call it the War on Terrorism or Overseas Contingency Operations, the fact is that we are war with an ideology that wants to kill us. For decades, Islamic extremists have plotted and [...]

PITTSBURGH STEELERS AND USO SERVICE WHITE HOUSE EVENT

President Obama will welcome the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers to the White House along with approximately 50 Wounded Warriors from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center and their families. The President [...]