Screwing over the Military, one Sailor at a time… Seattle, Wash. (CBS SEATTLE) – A U.S. Navy sailor from Washington State is currently serving on a submarine thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean, but a judge has ordered him into … Continue reading
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I have to give LL over at Virtual Mirage kudos for probably the most creative pimping of my book I’ve seen… Go read HERE. I’m gonna owe him BIG TIME! 🙂 Ironically, I got this last night from a Nam … Continue reading
So… Apparently the administration is doing everything but telling the bad guys exactly who by name is coming to Iraq… They released today how many are coming, where they’re going and what they’re going to be doing… We used to … Continue reading
This is one M-80 I’d like to have… 🙂 Right now the Army is ‘borrowing’ it for a while… And we were chatting about ‘gamers’ and ‘gaming’ at lunch today, and one of the folks found this one… Takes playing … Continue reading
We’re ALL getting there, some of us faster than others… A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office. “Is it true,” she wanted to know, “that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?” … Continue reading
A chip this size… Went from requiring a 900MHz triangulation to being a full blown GPS? Far fetched??? Not so much… DARPA is trying to develop a Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems MEMS unit that will do just that in a form factor … Continue reading
As of this morning it was going to be 50 Marines to plus up the security forces in the Baghdad Embassy… As of now, it’s 275… Sacrificial lambs??? I’d be evacuating the Embassy and setting charges, but that’s just me…
We’ve been down this road before… Under Carter, under Clinton and under the dem controlled congress… By Col. Mike Hayden USAF (Ret) In this year’s defense budget, administration and Pentagon leaders requested a military pay raise of 1 percent. That’s … Continue reading
It wasn’t just men that were needed… Since yesterday was the Army’s birthday, I present this one… Unusual for the time, this one actually used a photograph by Reggie Green as the basis for the poster. The Second LT is wearing … Continue reading
To the US Army, 239 years old today… An interesting ceremony is the cake cutting done by the respective services, it always includes the oldest/longest serving member and the youngest member at each installation that does it. And today is … Continue reading