The Scarlet and Gold Is A Little Bit Older
Those of you who've earned the right to wear the Eagle, Globe and Anchor – know what day it is. To all those Devil Dogs at home and stationed abroad, whether in garrison or...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
229th Birthday Message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps
10 November 2004 A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS Two hundred and twenty-nine years ago, the Second Continental Congress established a Corps of Marines to fight for a democratic people's...
WTF, over?
Gregg K. Kakesako of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on Soldier sues over his recall to service: A Kauai man gets a 30-day delay as he challenges Iraq duty A Kauai resident who was discharged from...
Its Getting Syria-ous
Martha Kessler, writing for the Los Angeles Times, on Danger in Pushing Syria Out of Lebanon: Early in September, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for the departure of all foreign...
It’s All In Their Heads, Part 5 million
Debora MacKenzie writing for New Scientist on US in U-turn over Gulf war syndrome Terence Walker is one of the lucky ones. On 19 January 1991 he was with 6000 British troops at Al...
Coalition of the Falling Apart
Peter Kirk of Associated Press on Hungary Will Withdraw Troops From Iraq: Hungary will withdraw its 300 non-combat troops from Iraq by the end of March, the country's new prime minister said Wednesday, dealing...
YOU Wanna Be An Airborne Ranger…
Now that election 2004 is over, I hope my conservative friends who voted for Bush as well as their apologist "Libertarians for Bush" buddies are heading off to their nearest military recruiter. We'll be...
Support and – Umm – “Support”
Thomas L. Knapp shows REAL support for the troops in this posting (and I concur with his analysis of the situation). Commenting chickenhawks do the exact opposite in this thread at The Agitator. Here...
Doing It Backwards
Fellow Marine, Gulf War veteran and libertarian activist Thomas L. Knapp on NewsClip: Way to win hearts and minds, bozos …: Don’t get me wrong. War is war, and it is indeed hell. The...
If the Army Wanted You to Know The Truth, It Would Have Issued It To You
David Hackworth (who actually wore a military uniform) on Muzzling Soldiers Is Nothing New: Politicians and military commanders were lying about how wars were progressing long before the sword and the shield first clashed....