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3600 prepare for deployment to Afghanistan
ROS sends us a link to the round of units deploying to Afghanistan from the Army Times; ? 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky, about 1,000 personnel. ? 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky, about 900 personnel. ? 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, […]
MT Senator Walsh plagiarized thesis at War College (Update: PTS made him do it)
1Sngr sends us a link to Ace of Spades in which Ace explains to us about the career of Democratic Senator John Walsh of Montana, who is a National Guardsman and a veteran of an Iraq deployment, whose political career would be circling the drain if he was a Republican. According to the New York […]
Cornelius Davis, the stolen valor SGM
WPTV in West Palm Beach says that they’ve talked with Cornelius Davis, the fellow who starred in the viral video last weekend at a funeral when he was cornered by a couple of Marines. Davis continues to claim that he’s a sergeant major and that he’s in the Army. WPTV spoke with the man in […]
Islamic State: “We’re coming for you, Barack Obama”
According to the Washington Times, those folks, ISIS or ISIL or the Islamic State, or whatever they’re calling themselves today, have sent a threat to the President that they’re “coming” for him. I hope they’re not taking directions from Dallas Wittgenfeld. He’s been “coming” for me for three or four years, and he’s only “coming” […]
Thursday feel good story
Chief tango sends us our feel good story this morning. It’s from Indianapolis; The homeowner of the house in the 4900 block of Lewiston Drive said he came home to find the house had been ransacked, officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said. Police said the homeowner heard noises upstairs, confronted the burglar and […]
“Oh. I guess maybe you are setting the right example.”
Dave Hardin’s comment here about a LSoS former cook, fake SF, and congressional candidate reminded me of one of the funniest things that I ever saw in the military. So I thought I’d relate it here. At Fort Bragg years ago, the XVIII Airborne Corps at one time had a formal IG Inspection – and […]
Vet locked inside VA hospital
I saw this early this morning on Fox about Jeff Duck, a veteran who had gone to the VA hospital to get his prescriptions filled. He was kept waiting for three hours, and then he noticed that everyone in the hospital was gone and he was locked in with an alarm going off; When he […]
Background check fail
AW1Ed sends us a link to Newser and their story about 18-year-old Elijah Williams who sold a gun to 24-year-old Tyrone Moore who was out on the street as a parolee. Young Elijah has since regretted the ownership transfer of his firearm to Tyrone. Investigators believe that Williams and another 18-year-old, Moore’s cousin Hailes Cole, […]
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