HOOAH! CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan — A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second female soldier since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest medal for valor. Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through
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“If you get blown up, I don’t care!” : William Tecumseh Sherman to a Confederate prisoner ordered to dig for land mines. During the Civil War, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman had a great mine-clearing technique: On 8 December 1864, an officer’s horse triggered a “torpedo.” The horse was killed, the officer maimed, and men
Pelosi echoes Harry (“the war is lost”) Reid: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday that Iraq “is a failure,” adding that President Bush’s troop surge has “not produced the desired effect.” “The purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the government of Iraq to make the political change to
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Some lunkhead at CJTF Operations in Afghanistan (it has to be an officer) has his panties in a wad over an upcoming anti-Islam film: Ostensibly an exercise in the Party for Freedom’s right to free speech, Dutch politician Geert Wilders prepares to release a new anti-Islam film. Wilders will not comment on details of the
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The New York Slimes has taken a brief repose from its daily smear campaign of the military to profile Michael Yon, a former Soldier-turned milblogger. Michael Yon was not a journalist, and he wasn’t sure what a blogger was. He had been in uniform but not in combat, and he wanted to keep it that
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The New York version of Al Jazeera continues to spit on the troops: In a smear piece titled: “Across America, the Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles”, they re-hash the old reliable “psycho war vet” that was used ad nauseam after the Vietnam War. The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq
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