Archive for the ‘Military’ Category

The Mudville Gazette posted this image that will swell your heart with pride for our military men and women.

Image via The Sniper

If Obama accepts these recommendations, it would be a sign that he is capable of acknowledging when a policy is unpopular and reversing course on it. The Washington Post has the story:
President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a [...]

Sixty-eight years ago today, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor killing more than 2,400 people. This video was taken from a documentary about Pearl Harbor. You can read more about the attack at PearlHarborDay.org.

My favorite search engine, Bing, has a beautiful picture tribute. Google isn’t acknowledging it.
Terresa Monroe Hamilton at Noisy Room says this:
We remember Pearl [...]

Yesterday’s breaking news about Major Nidal Malik Hasan mowing down 13 soldiers and wounding 31 more was nothing short of shocking. Hasan, a Muslim, was born here in the US and joined the military before 9/11. He went to Virginia Tech and was in ROTC. He was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Hospital before [...]

That’s what I argue in this week’s American Issues Project column. Here’s a portion:
The health care reform bills circulating through Congress are job killers because many of their provisions include billions of dollars of fees and taxes that will hit the American people both directly and indirectly. The Baucus bill in particular is loaded [...]

President Obama has turned his back on more of our allies.
When President Bush was in office, he worked to help our allies who shared our love of freedom and liberty but who didn’t have the same technological capabilities we did. The goal was to place our missile defense sheild near those nations so they would [...]

War dogs are the unsung heroes of our military. They work their hearts out serving their country and their handlers, saving many, many lives. Flapoor, a Marine Working Dog, served two tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom. During his first tour, he and his handler, Cpl Poelart, were providing security at an Iraqi police recruiting center [...]

If you didn’t hear about it, Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh was testifying in front of a Senate committee when he responded to a question by Senator Barbara Boxer with “yes ma’am.” She took that as a sign of disrespect so she asked that he address her as “senator” because, as she put it, she worked [...]

On Memorial Day we remember those men and women in uniform who died while in the military. My grandfather, Ret. Major Wilson M. Moon is interred in Arlington National Cemetery. My husband’s cousin, Sgt. 1st Class James Priestap, was killed by a sniper in Iraq on November 23rd, 2006.
Several years ago before my husband [...]

Australian troops just whacked one of the Taliban’s commanders:
Australian commandos have killed a Taliban chief blamed for numerous attacks on coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, including one that killed an Australian soldier last week, the country’s defense ministry announced.
The death of Mullah Abdul Rasheed “is a significant achievement for the Special Operations Task Group,” Australian [...]