Is more punishment. That’s the message Secretary of Defense Gates sent to serving Soldiers in the Army on Wednesday. WASHINGTON – Beginning immediately, all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours — three months longer than the usual standard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.It was
Category: Military
Constitutional confusion
According to the news the President is thinking about appointing a “War Czar” to supervise the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan………..evidently 3 retired 4 stars were approached about taking this thankless job and all of them said no. I wonder why?……….. Call me silly, but isn’t that the job of
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Of that truck driving school again? Today was not so bad as yesterday, but I got careless and made a mistake. I caught it later, but that’s not the point. One is supposed to have better command of the issues not to do that. I take it as a sign
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If I had time to see it. Problem is all of my trips to Korea are for work. Long hours type of work. And I don’t have an international drivers license so they won’t let me rent a car. So, so far all I have seen of Korea is Seoul
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For the next two weeks anyway, Chap found it. The Glorious Leader can die any time now………… Check please! You are 83% ready to get out of Korea You have them figured out. You know it is a 5,000 year-old shell game and there is no pea. You are
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Why the Army cannot seem to get that whole, making the correct decision thing right-READ THIS! With all due respect, who was the bonehead at Camp Zama that decided this was a good idea? I’m hoping they kept him away from the elementary school…………… Subscribe in a reader
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WARNING NOTICE-Highly emotional and possibly unhinged rant follows……….. While making my morning sojourn around bloggerville I stumbled across this little tidbit at Pen and Sword. Reporting from London’s Sunday Times: Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against
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Agree with me-shouldn’t you? Sen. McCain is now saying the same thing that I was saying two years ago: “We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement- that’s the kindest word I can give you-of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war,” the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of
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Never in control-an E-2 NFO. Courtesy of Steeljaw Scribe is an neat little educational video about the smaller, much much more capable version, of the AWACS. The largest aircraft to fly on and off of the carrier today. These guys do with 5 people what it takes the Air Force
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Will get you in trouble. I don’t have time to write a long post on this, but the link will take you to some good words on the subject. Every time the military tries to cross over into what should properly be a person’s private life, it fails miserably to
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