Army SSG Matt Maupin was captured in Iraq by terrorists and killed in captivity. The ACLU, Democrats, IVAW, and Code Pink are strangely silent about the violation of his rights under the Geneva Convention. I’m shocked. Previous post on SSG Maupin: http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/ssg-maupin-laid-to-rest/ On a better note: One of the men believed to be a captor …
Yesterday was the birthday of one of the greatest American Soldiers, tacticians, and strategists. He was courageous, profane, blunt, honest, forthright, and a hell of a leader. His legacy lives on. General George Smith Patton, Jr. aka Old Blood and Guts, was born November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. Commissioned in the Army in …
In our story tonight on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, we’ll introduce you to women who never expected to fire a weapon while in Iraq but who ended up in urban warfare. “It’s the longest few seconds before you pull the trigger, seems like it’s all in slow-mo,” 27-year-old Shannon Morgan, a former …
A veteran – whether active duty, retired, National Guard or Reserve – is someone who at one point in his/her life wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.’ That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this …
The following is a blog entry written on Aug. 30, 2008, by Army Specialist Stephen Fortunato, who was killed Tuesday in Afghanistan when the vehicle he was riding in was blown up by an improvised explosive device. This entry was forwarded to the Globe by his mother, Elizabeth “Betty” Crawford. If I may … I’d …
The following excerpt is from an article by Bill at The Castle, who attended a recent graduation ceremony of the First Class of the new Iraqi Air Force Flight School. He’s also a flight instructor at the school. ……Y’see, I’m the only instructor here who can teach both starched-wing *and* fling-wing stuff, but when the …
