If you are looking for information on the October 8th, 2008 fire in Camp Pendleton, you will find it here [Posted 0555 PDT] Yesterday I spoke at length with my son Jon, a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. He talked about the concerns regarding the various fires surrounding the Camp, most notably the Rice Creek […]
I’ve been following the coverage (little as there is) about Israel’s strike on an Syrian military site back on September 6th. There are several remarkable aspects to the strike and its aftermath: Israeli jets flew all the way across Syria to the site in question — which is by the Turkish border — and back […]
Last month a watershed event took place in Iraq. During a raid near Sinjar, an interesting Al-Qaeda figure, Shiek Muthanna, was killed in a raid. This fellow was in change of bringing foreign fighters into the country to execute operations against US forces and the Iraqi population. While it is always a great day when […]
Japan is a wonderful and fascinating place. It has a long proud tradition of a warrior culture, that at the end of WW2 was invalidated and pushed to the far corners of Japanese society. Japan was all about peace and happiness. With a huge US presence in multiple bases across Japan, the people shifted their […]
Sometimes I think that all wit and humor has been driven from public discourse through poltical correctness and mindless subjugation to political and social “causes”. Then I wander into something like this (From a source I usually don’t think highly of). From The San Francisco Chronicle – A reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim at Columbia […]
Gerard Vanderleun — who was just across the river from Manhattan, in Brooklyn Heights, when the WTC was hit — has posted his own memories of that day: The Wind in the Heights Notes made on September 11, 2001 — Brooklyn Heights I’ll simply link to my posts from last year, as well as Bruce […]
I just finished reading House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by SSG David Bellavia (with John R. Bruning). Bellavia took part in the US battle for Fallujah (Iraq) in November 2004; his squad was one of the first to enter the city, in which insurgents had spent months entrenching themselves and booby-trapping much […]
Victor Davis Hansen talks about how his graduate work in Classics led to writing about military history — and why military history matters: Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument — let alone an assent — but a blank stare: Who or what was […]
Blackfive is on a role. First, they tracked down, identified, and conducted a phone interview with the USMC Staff Sergeant who did the slam poetry video below. And they did it before the mainstream media could. Second, they have this link to Military Motivator, a place where individuals use the “do-it-yourself-Demotivator” function at Despair.com to […]
The new “greatest generation”
Thirty, forty, fifty years from now, Americans will look back in wonder at those who answered the call at the turn of the century: Hat tip to Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive. ..bruce.. [UPDATED 08/12/07 – 2216 MDT] Thanks to Ace of Spaces HQ for the Ace-alanche! I should note for the record that my wife […]
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