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Staff Sergeant Clinton L. Romesha United States Army For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Staff Sergeant Clinton L. Romesha distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving [...] CBS’ Lara Logan calls BS on the Obama Administration over lies about Libya and Afghanistan. CBS News and “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan took the gloves off last week, dropping her role as a disinterested journalist and delivering a speech in Chicago that criticized the Obama administration over its handling of the war in [...] Worst attack on a US base since Vietnam. 7% of the USMC Harrier fleet was destroyed in this attack. I’m sure the State Department would characterize this as an attack by hoodlums and vandals. Insurgent fighters wearing U.S. Army uniforms breached the defenses of the main British-run air base in southern Afghanistan on [...] Control of Bagram prison has formally been handed over to the Afghans. The handover ceremony took place at the prison next to a sprawling U.S. airfield in Bagram, just north of Kabul. President Hamid Karzai has hailed the transfer as a victory for Afghan sovereignty. Bagram, also known as the Parwan Detention Facility, has [...] I’m not sure what to think of this piece on Afghanistan from the Armed Forces Journal, by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis — who used to be on Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s staff (Drudge linked to it)…: From Bad to Abysmal Much of what I saw during my deployment, let alone read or wrote in official [...] Some Marines are in trouble for peeing on the dead bodies of some Taliban. I guess on some level I wish they hadn’t done that, but my “give a damn” just isn’t too worked about it. My main issue… why WHY did they videotape it? Good Lord that was breathtakingly dumb. Top U.S. officials moved [...] You may have heard of the Afghan woman who was raped by her cousin’s husband, got pregnant from that and was sentenced to 12 years in prison before President Hamid Karzai pardoned her — conditioned on her marrying her rapist. Karzai fleshes out that position more here. Whether he’s sincere or not remains to [...] Good luck to Jerry Bruckheimer, we need motion pictures like Horse Soldiers. From Deadline.COM Here’s something you don’t often see, producer Jerry Bruckheimer out pitching a movie package. I’m told the Disney-based producer has been out this week with a pitch for Horse Soldiers, an adaptation of the Doug Stanton book that has a Ted [...] Unveiled on 11 NOV at Ground Zero, this statue commemorates the Special Forces Soldiers who first took the fight to the enemy in Afghanistan in 2001. Share on [...] …sorry heterosexual ladies. If you don’t want to watch Kelly writhing around in a white bikini fast forward to about the last 45 seconds where she describes her trips overseas to visit the troops and her plans to go again…something to be appalauded. Share on Facebook Where Soldiers Come From, follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard after graduating from high school. As it chronicles the young men’s transformation from restless teenagers to soldiers looking for roadside bombs to 23-year-old combat veterans trying to start their lives again, the film offers an intimate look at the [...] When I was in Iraq we were told that some insurgents called the Apache “the Fox” because were lurked in the darkness and came in suddenly to strike. The Taliban it seems have another name for us… From AOL Defense Washington: The Army uses Native American tribe names as nicknames for its helicopters – [...] Marines in Afghanistan are currently using I-Pads in their helicopters to display maps and other info. From an article at The Danger Room When Marines are in a firefight in Afghanistan and need back up, they call in helicopters to blast the enemy from the sky. Sounds simple enough, but it’s not — according to [...] Today a sergeant of the United States Marine Corps received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan on 8 September 2009. His name is Dakota Meyer and what he did to earn this medal is heroic and deserves nothing less. Here’s the citation: For service as set forth in the following For conspicuous [...] From the Wall Street Journal On a 2010 training exercise, a team of Navy SEALs converged on an ocean rendezvous point. Crouched beside the sailors on a bouncing Zodiac speedboat was a filmmaker, dressed in camouflage with his camera rolling as a submarine broke the surface. “We ran those boats right up on the [...] |
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