Stephen Spruiell has an interesting article that gives "the rest of the story" on a Seattle Post-Intelligencer column that purported to show Marine recruiters attempting to "draft" a recruit. The column is one-sided and outrageous. There are all sorts of quotes attributed to unnamed Marines, but the source for all of those quotes (and the […]
Every time some Hollywood celebrity opens their mouth and condmens the American military or participates in a "peace march" with leftist loonies holding "We Support Troops when they kill their officers" it makes the evening news and is shown time and time again on cable TV. Well, Smash has word that Academy Award-winning actor Denzel […]
Back during the 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry, the Democrat nominee, refused to sign what is known as a "Form 180". A 180 waives privacy rights with regard to military records and allows others to see them. Bush signed a Form 180 long before the 2004 election cycle -- though he got flak from […]
As you go about your business today -- whether you're going to a baseball game, a BBQ or you've got to work -- pause for a moment and remember soldiers like Michael C. Carlson who gave the last full measure of devotion that we may enjoy the freedoms that we have. For those of you […]
Let me start out by saying that I'm a male chauvinist pig. I'm opposed to women serving as infantrymen or front-line Marines or even fighter pilots. By and large, women are less physically capable of the demands of a combat environment. There are exceptions, of course, but until the military insists on uniform physical standards, […]
This image hit the Internet yesterday, taken by Michel Yon in Mosul. Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited […]
The Camp Pendleton Marine who was captured on videotape shooting an Iraqi militant who was apparently feigning death won't face charges. Before the opening of the Nov. 8 assault on rebel-held Fallujah, Marine commanders told infantrymen that the rules of engagement allowed the use of deadly force against men of military age deemed holding hostile […]
Today's Wall Street Journal has a brief but informative editorial [subscription required] for those on the left who continue to insist that there was some directive from the "highest levels of government" for the "torture" at Abu Ghraib prison. Private First Class Lynndie England -- infamously pictured with an Abu Ghraib detainee on a leash […]
California's "smarter" senator, Dianne Feinstein, has made a shocking discovery: nuclear weapons kill people. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the study confirms that nuclear bunker busters cannot dig deep enough to prevent large casualties. "The bottom line is that it would result in the deaths of up to a million people or more if used […]
Another Democrat politician attempted -- again -- to give new impetus to the left-wing loonies who are obsessed with the possibility of a draft. Sen. Daniel Inouye, the Democrat from Hawaii, said, "For the first time in many years the Army and Marine Corps are not meeting their recruiting targets. There are some who are […]