Category: Military

I had a Redbox movie I needed to return (Robin Hood, if you’re wondering) and I needed to pick up a few things from the grocery store, so I decided to put on my old USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) ballcap and take advantage of the free breakfast for veterans at the local Maryville Hy-Vee Food […]

Since I was a child, I’ve enjoyed a very specific type of book or movie, of the kind that I call the “Getting it Right” genre. Getting it Right entertainment involves a protagonist who is making big mistakes, and who figures out how to — yes — get it right. The moral trajectory of failure […]

Yes, folks, it is that time of the year again, the time to pony up and help out our soldiers through Soldiers Angels and Project Valour IT Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds […]

It has been clear since the Bush years that there’s a contingent in the military that’s a lot more concerned about promotions and bad press than they are about the lives of the troops or winning wars, but it seems to be getting worse under the Obama administration: To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines […]

Over at the New York Times, they’re outrageously OUTRAGED that there might be any sort of real world consequences to ending the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy: Although President Obama and the Pentagon’s top leaders have all said they want the law repealed, the Justice Department on Thursday asked Judge Phillips to stay her injunction […]

You can’t destroy America without destroying the mighty American military. Liberals are on the job, using their usual tactic of incremental corrosion. That is, they are going to rot it into a contemptible farce, just as they’ve been doing to the country as a whole. Here’s a report on their progress: Next week, Senate Majority […]

When I heard that General Stanley McChrystal, the man running the show in Afghanistan, had mouthed off about Obama to Rolling Stone and could conceivably be fired, my first thought turned to the conflict between MacArthur and Truman that helped destroy Truman’s presidency. If you don’t remember, Truman ended up firing MacArthur after the general […]