Category: Military

Surprisingly, Kathleen Parker makes some salient points (Washington Post) It must be true what they say about women – that they are smarter, stronger, wiser and wilier than your average Joe. How else could one explain the magical thinking that apparently has prompted Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint […]

There are two divergent views of the military. One of them is that it’s primarily a fighting force that we send out to kill people, break things and protect our way of life. The other view says it’s just another government program that’s all about politics and social engineering experiments. Even at the highest levels […]

Ranger school.

“Fix bayonets.” Echoes: Col. Joshua Chamberlain: and the 20th Maine on Little Round Top.

Sounds like a pretty serious: weapon: “The MOP’s modifications allow it to crash through 60 feet of reinforced concrete and detonate up to 200 feet below ground . . .”

The Ford-class carriers will replace the Nimitz-class. The Navy plans to take delivery ofthis bad boy: in 2015.

“Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that’ll be happening tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people [inaudible]. Um, I, I, ah, back sorry, um, I think it’s interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about […]

For Memorial Day, I don’t usually post much, preferring to dedicate the day to memorializing our troops. To do that this year, I am going to share this story about the mettle of our troops. What follows are excerpts from remarks by Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly to the Semper Fi Society of St. […]

In an extraordinarily bizarre turn of events, one of the most anti-military cities in America, San Francisco, wants the Navy to name a ship after left wing politician Harvey Milk. In Milk’s defense, he did serve in the military and rose to the level of lieutenant, junior grade. On the other hand, Harvey Milk’s claim […]

When a serial killer is caught or there’s a mass murder, people always want to know why. Why did they do it? What made them snap? Once you get past Muslims killing people in the name of Allah, which is unfortunately all too common, the answers people get are seldom satisfactory. We hear people blame […]

President Obama again reveals where his loyalties lie – with the unions. According to: The Washington Free Beacon, the Obama administration is proposing cuts to health benefits for active duty and retired military members and their families, while leaving the benefits for unionized civilian defense workers alone. If anything, it should be the opposite – those […]

The Ford class nuclear carriers, with the first three expected to average about: $13.4 billion apiece. O.K. by me. Build, baby, build.

It’s genuinely hard to understand how anybody in our own military could be fine with the remains of their brothers-in-arms being dumped in a landfill like so much garbage. The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before […]

A thank you to our veterans for the sacrifices they’ve made in the name of freedom featuring comments from Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Don Stenberg, Dan Liljenquist, and Adam Hasner. Freedom Works debuted this great video for Veteran’s Day while we were in Denver this past weekend. It is now up at Youtube and, even […]

America is a singularly different nation where it concerns our military veterans. We love them. We even have a national holiday to honor them. This is not so in most of the rest of the world. Elsewhere military veterans are not so loved as they are here. Is that because the United States is the […]