Latest News
Ugh
I’m probably going to die in the next hour or two from a busted liver/spleen/brain something. I wanted my last post to not be about the Dutch Rudder Quartet. (It is 14-14 at halftime as I write this.)
Run for the hills
When Suzie-Q gets that look in her eye, no not that one, and carries it with her throughout the house my gut instinct tells me to run for the hills. And to not come back for at least a month. My instincts were confirmed when, after her walk about, the conversation began in silky tones […]
BOLO: You may be being bounty hunted
Have you seen this man? Keep your eyes open. I have it on good authority that over 17000 bounty hunters have been hired to track each and every one of you. Comment here if you believe you are being followed, and we will send out our Anti-Bounty Hunting crew.
Annie, Get Yer Gun!
Ran across this bit of history the other day. I thought all our readers who are current and former cannon-cockers would enjoy it.
Michael Joseph Grassie; another Beirut phony
Scottie sends us his work on this Michael Joseph Grassie fellow who told Newsweek in a 2007 article about the time he was shot by a student in his classroom that he was in the Beirut barracks bombing (October 23rd, 1983) and earned a Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart; Well, as you can […]
Mark Steven Paffrath; CNN’s Navy Cross phony
Chip sent us a link to a CNN article about this Mark Steven Paffrath fellow who was apparently fired for posting pictures of Federal Protective Services vehicles in the hotel where he worked during the Ferguson thing back in November. During the interview with the Navy veteran, the CNN crews shows this photo of Paffrath […]
70th Anniversary of the Cabanatuan Raid
I’m a few days late, luckily they weren’t. But The Great Raid on the Cabanatuan POW Camp on the Philippine island of Luzon happened on January 30th, 1945, 70 years ago. The prisoners there had survived the Bataan Death March which began on April 9, 1942 with the surrender of the ill-prepared 60-80,000 US and […]
Master Gunnery Sergeant Alain Reyes and Master Sergeant Greg Bartel saving the world
Nearly two years ago, Charles Richard Jennings, Jr shot his father-in-law, James Evans, in church at their Father’s Day Mass. When the shooting ended, Jennings lit out, but he didn’t know that there were two military careerists in hot pursuit. Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant Alain Reyes and Air Force Master Sergeant Greg Bartel were both […]
Recent Comments