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Military/Veterans (Bloggers & Personal)

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  • North Korea and Iran: The Nuclear Duo

    01/07/2016 5:32:16 PM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 5 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 01/07/16 | Joseph A. Klein
    There is no reason to believe that, as a result of the deal Iran is already sidestepping, Iran will suddenly stop all dealings with North Korea with regard to both countries’ nuclear programs North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on January 6th, which it claimed was a hydrogen bomb. Despite some skepticism as to North Korea’s claim that it had actually tested a hydrogen bomb, the Obama administration acknowledged that North Korea had indeed tested some sort of nuclear device. The administration condemned North Korea’s latest testing as a violation of a series of past United Nations Security Council...
  • North Korea Claims H-Bomb Success

    01/07/2016 7:21:46 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 11 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 01/07/16 | Matthew Vadum
    How Obama and the Clintons laid the groundwork for the pariah state to get nukes Communist North Korea sent geopolitical shockwaves around the planet yesterday by claiming to have conducted a successful test of a powerful hydrogen bomb. After Syria’s civil war, the rise of Islamic State, and the useless nuclear nonproliferation pact with the mullahs of Iran, the North Korean detonation is just the latest foreign policy catastrophe on President Barack Hussein Obama’s watch. It was made possible by his inept former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and before that by her husband former President Bill Clinton. Interestingly, even...
  • SecNav Bans Marine Job Titles With Term ‘Man’ to Ensure Gender Neutrality

    01/06/2016 4:53:22 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 81 replies
    The Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 6, 2016 | Morgan Chalfant
    Also demands Marine Corps make boot camp co-ed. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus recently sent a memo to Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller directing him to review the Marine Corp's position titles to ensure their gender neutrality. Mabus told Neller to drop the term "man" from position titles so that they become gender integrated by the deadline of April 1, according to the Marine Corps Times. "As we achieve full integration of the force ... this is an opportunity to update the position titles and descriptions themselves to demonstrate through this language that women are included in these MOSs,"...
  • Double Standards for Female Rangers

    01/03/2016 8:54:11 PM PST · by pboyington · 39 replies
    US Defense Watch ^ | January 3, 2016 | Ray Starmann
    US Defense Watch has obtained new information concerning special training for female soldiers in preparation for attendance to the US Army’s Ranger School. In the Fall of 2014, a group of female soldiers were given three months of training to specifically prepare them for Ranger School. The female soldiers were pulled away from their regular duties in the Army to eat, breathe and sleep Ranger School for ninety days. One of the female soldiers who attended the training, was First Lieutenant Shaye Haver, who, along with Captain Kristen Griest, became the first two women to ever graduate from Ranger School,...
  • Four new military aircraft took to the skies in 2015

    12/31/2015 3:22:17 AM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 7 replies
    FoxNews.com ^ | December 30, 2015 | Allison Barrie
    It was a big year for military aircraft advances. Here’s a look back at four of those – the F-16 Viper, Marine Corps’ King Stallion Helo, a new stealth bomber and fifth generation fighter F-35.
  • China’s New Counter-Terrorism Law

    12/30/2015 4:59:21 PM PST · by Sean_Anthony
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/30/15 | Joseph A. Klein
    Obama would prefer to remain in the dark as ISIS and other jihadist groups use American-made technologies to plan and carry out their deadly attacks China has just passed a new law requiring technology firms to provide “technical means of support” for the government’s counter-terrorism activities, including to help de-crypt information if the government demands them to do so. The firms are also enlisted in efforts to prevent the spread of incendiary materials that could incite acts of terrorism. Responding to a question regarding earlier criticisms of the law in some Western countries, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang replied: “I...
  • Pentagon finding ways to thwart prisoner release, closing of Gitmo

    12/30/2015 8:35:26 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 5 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/30/15 | Dan Calabrese
    Dysfunction The Obama Administration has had three Defense Secretaries - Robert Gates (who was a Bush Administration holdover), Chuck Hagel (who was apparently undercut on a regular basis and then pushed out) and now Ash Carter. Two Republicans and now a Democrat. But one thing all of them apparently have had in common is a disinclination to cooperate with Obama’s dream of closing the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay. And according to a Reuters report this morning, the Pentagon has consistently stonewalled attempts release prisons and to position Gitmo for the ultimate closing that would fulfill one of Obama’s most...
  • Who are the Prohibited Possessors on the NICS list?

    12/30/2015 6:44:52 AM PST · by marktwain · 24 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 28 December, 2015 | Dean Weingarten
    At the end of 2014, there were 12,881,223 people who were legally prohibited from possessing modern firearms on the NICS list of prohibited persons(pdf).  As can be seen from the chart below, obtained from the FBI, nearly half of those prohibited, 49.2%, are illegal aliens.  The next largest number are those who have been adjudicated with a mental health problem.  177,000 of the recent numbers are veterans  added by the veteran administration.  The total "mental defectives" is over 29% of the prohibited possessors in the NICS data base.  In 2007, only 10.15% of prohibited possessors were listed as mental...
  • Review: "Daniel Boone & The Opening of the American West"

    12/29/2015 4:22:43 AM PST · by Davy Buck · 28 replies
    Old Virginia Blog ^ | 12/29/2015 | Richard Williams
    While watching this latest production, I couldn't help but chuckle about some of the misconceptions many Americans have about Boone due, perhaps, to that old TV series. Brown explodes some of those misconceptions in this project: Boone was not the first white man to explore or settle Kentucky (then part of Virginia). He did not care for coonskin caps and never wore one. He was court-martialed, refused an attorney, defended himself, was acquitted and then promoted. He never used tobacco and though he did not totally abstain from alcohol, he was never known to abuse its use. He was red-headed...
  • The Dangerous Strands Of US Political Culture (View from the Left)

    12/27/2015 4:32:14 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 13 replies
    Popular Resistance ^ | December 24, 2015 | Joey B. King
    Starting with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, I began noticing something. That year, people like Rush Limbaugh screamed from the airwaves, “This is the most important election of our lifetime!” In every election since then, both sides have repeated this same mantra. You’d think the electorate would have figured this fear-mongering out by now, but they haven’t. In this article, I make a different argument. Instead of it being the most important election of our lifetime, I think this is the most dangerous election since 1968. Why do I say that? In the 1968 election, the country was...
  • We’re Waiting, Mr. Obama

    12/27/2015 8:34:33 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 8 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/27/15 | Judi McLeod
    Even so after more than seven long years of Obama taunting and harassment, there are millions of patriots who would fire back: “We’re waiting, Mr. Obama”. One can only imagine how Marines at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, subjected to working out at their gym with President Barack Hussein Obama must feel when reading the general email he sent under the cover of “-Friend”, just one day later. In Obama’s own defiant words: “I’ve got 12 months left to squeeze every ounce of change I can while I’m still in office. And that’s what I intend to do.”
  • Nearer To Jesus Our Family Will Be

    12/27/2015 3:22:41 AM PST · by Revski
    Revski (o7jimmy) Youtube Ministy ^ | 12/27/2015 | Revski (o7jimmy)
    This video has the hymn, Nearer My God to Thee, by: Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848). I play and sing, this old and wonderful song, with my mandolin. The picture new ones also, are family, friends and scenic views. Ending picture of Jesus is by; Greg Olson. Thanks for watching.
  • Merry Christmas My Friends!

    12/25/2015 5:22:50 PM PST · by Texas Fossil · 10 replies
    The American Cowboy Chronicles ^ | December 24, 2015 | Tom Correa
    Merry Christmas My Friends! Dear Friends, Thank you for your wonderful support of my blog. I cannot thank you enough for making my blog such a success. I am truly grateful for your support. While it never ceases to amaze me just how many people out there are interested in the same things that I am, as a kindred spirit I feel blessed that you visit to see what's new. It is great to know that I can provide something that you may enjoy reading. And yes, it also feels pretty good knowing that I can be useful in passing...
  • What's merry about all this?

    12/23/2015 9:25:49 PM PST · by pboyington · 2 replies
    US Defense Watch ^ | December 23, 2015 | Ray Starmann
    For the troops serving overseas, Christmas time can be a bleak, depressing period. Whether guarding a motor pool, commanding a company or landing a jet on a carrier, thoughts of loved ones stay with our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines night and day. They dream of snow-covered landscapes, decorated and brilliantly-lit trees, abundant food and the warmth of a holiday home. It seems that Americans have always been deployed to dangerous frontiers during the holidays as they’ve battled the enemies of freedom and justice. In December 1776, the entire American patriot cause was in danger of collapsing. Reeling from yet...
  • The Loneliest Time of the Year - Vets and the Holiday Season

    12/22/2015 9:51:49 PM PST · by pboyington · 4 replies
    US Defense Watch ^ | December 22, 2015 | Ray Starmann
    The holiday season seems to go on forever, only to finally extinguish itself in a brilliant blaze of football and parades on New Year’s Day. It is an endless litany of Christmas music and movies, a bustling, shopping mania. The season practically drowns in the myriad of commercials, advertising everything material one can purchase. It’s a season of family time and families making plans to go here or there and everywhere. It is a frenetic period of apparent jovial distractions from life’s endless responsibilities. To a vet, the holiday season is something else entirely. Is Christmas ever the same again,...
  • Obama Goes Golfing After Terrorist Attack In Afghanistan Kills Six American Soldiers

    12/22/2015 11:55:10 AM PST · by Sir Napsalot · 12 replies
    Breitbart - Big Government ^ | 12-22-2015 | Charlie Spiering
    President Obama is on vacation in Hawaii, where he was informed of a terrorist attack in Afghanistan that killed six American service members. ..... But the sobering news didn't stop Obama from heading to the golf course, a tradition for the president as he enjoys the Hawaii climate during the holidays. While Obama was on the course, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest released a statement in response to the attacks. "We express our deepest condolences to the families of the six U.S. service members killed and to all of those injured in today's Taliban attack near Bagram Airfield in...
  • Hillary: We’re where we need to be in fight against ISIS

    12/21/2015 8:45:05 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 19 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/21/15 | Dan Calabrese
    Also claims without evidence that ISIS is using Trump video as recruiting tool. What would you think would constitute success in the fight against ISIS? Maybe . . . dead jihadists from ISIS? That would likely be what most normal people would look for as an indication we’re getting somewhere. A creature of Washington, on the other hand, would look to something entirely different. For people in this bizarre culture, the key is not so much that you destroy ISIS as that you get pieces of paper signed by people saying ISIS is icky and should please stop. And there...
  • Air Force to allow non-officers to fly drones for first time

    12/19/2015 9:58:23 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 22 replies
    Stars & Stripes ^ | December 19, 2015 | W.J. Hennigan
    IRBIL, Iraq — The Air Force will allow enlisted personnel to become drone pilots for the first time to help meet demands for increased surveillance over global hot spots, according to a new policy announced Thursday. The decision, which follows months of study, is the latest Air Force effort to overhaul the growing drone program, which has struggled to recruit and retain enough officers to serve as drone pilots. Counterterrorism operations including the battle against Islamic State have created constant demand for aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR. Drone pilots say they are overworked and badly stressed. “This group...
  • A monumental victory for political correctness in New Orleans

    12/19/2015 8:27:31 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 18 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/19/15 | Jeff Crouere
    Mayor Landrieu created a firestorm, stoked racial divisions, and attacked the city’s history, all to promote his political career. Yesterday, in the “City that Care Forgot,” New Orleans politicians displayed very little care for their city’s history, but showed they cared a great deal for political correctness. In a 6-1 vote, City Council members passed an ordinance supported by Mayor Mitch Landrieu to declare four historic Confederate monuments “nuisances” and remove them from the city landscape. It was a big political victory for Landrieu who created this controversy after the murder of nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, by...
  • Bowe Bergdahl to be Court-Martialed

    12/19/2015 8:19:59 AM PST · by darkwing104 · 17 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | December 19, 2015 | Jim Emerson, staff writer
    Commanding General of Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) Gen. Robert B. Abrams this week ordered the court-martial of Bowe Bergdahl. He will be tried on the charges of desertion and endangering troop by leaving his post in 2009. His action lead to a massive manhunt in a dangerous area of Afghanistan that resulted in the death of American troops. Bergdahl was held captive for 5 years by the Taliban. General Abrams’ decision contradicts the Article 32, pretrial hearing officer’s recommendation that Bergdahl should not face a general Court-Martial and should not serve jail time or a punitive discharge. General Abrams is...