A great Veteran’s weekend! Fun’s over, now it’s back to reality… Dammit… Great time at the National Museum of the Pacific War at Fredricksburg, TX. It was even more special in that Rich, one of my readers, actually gave myself … Continue reading
Category Archives: honoring our military
Article by: Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center Forget the Syrian Civil War for a moment. Even without the Sunnis and Shiites competing to give each other machete haircuts every sunny morning, there would still be … Continue reading
0937, September 11, 2001… This picture, to me, epitomizes the Pentagon’s response… 184 lives were lost that day. The benches face in opposite directions for a reason. If they face west, the bench memorializes those who were on AA Flt … Continue reading
Okay folks, I’d like your feedback here… I’m putting a short story in the Calexit Anthology and it’s the backstory of Captain Mike James. The initial feedback from the alpha readers was WAY too much jargon… So… I’ve rewritten it … Continue reading
So you get another video. Actually this one is pretty funny… Marines… sigh… Leatherneck Lifestyle Presents a Weird and Hilarious USMC Moto Video from Leatherneck Lifestyle on Vimeo. They definitely have a few screws loose… Just sayin… It would have … Continue reading
I know ‘we’ did some crazy stuff, but this one tops ALL of ours… That one wins, hands down! 🙂 h/t Mack … Continue reading
The USS Forrestal almost became the biggest single loss of life in the Vietnam conflict… I still remember seeing a longer version of this in boot camp, and wondering what they hell I’d gotten myself into… A rocket fired across … Continue reading
Military fakers in Pennsylvania may want to consider a change of station. The state has passed stolen valor legislation that will make impersonating a service member or veteran, or wearing unearned military decorations, a third-degree misdemeanor if it’s done “with intent to obtain money, property … Continue reading
Haven’t done one of these in a while, but I went down a rathole doing some research, so you get a post with pictures… LOL Determining the range, size, heading, and speed of a ship at sea, before radar was … Continue reading
They clanked when they walked… This 19 minute video is a little hokey, since it was done during the war, and the cameras didn’t really work well at night, but it is a tribute to the Naval Aviators and crewmen … Continue reading