War Stories
Tricare is so %^&$(*& frustrating
Last night I got two packages in the mail, one addressed to me, one addressed to my wife. My first thought, of course was that they were bombs since I didn’t recognize the return address and wasn’t expecting anything. But I shook them (the first thing you should do with a suspected bomb, right?) and […]
For Better or Worse
Doing what they are paid to do… politics be damned. The Navy and Air Force git some. A U.S. Navy P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft and guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52), engaged Libyan Coast Guard vessel Vittoria and two smaller crafts March 28. The vessels were engaged after […]
Sergeant Dipprasad Pun wins Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for bravery
Just ran across this on Facebook. Here is a quick background behind the story. He was awarded Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for bravery for his actions. Sgt Pun told yesterday how he was on guard duty at the base near Rahim Kalay in Helmand Province on September 10 last year when he heard a digging sound […]
20 years ago today; USS Princeton and Tripoli strike mines
One of our readers, Thor, writes a guest post for us about his experiences aboard the USS Tripoli when it struck a mine in the Persian Gulf 20 years ago today. Here’s what he saw; Today is the 20th anniversary of the USS Tripoli & USS Princeton mine strikes. Being “sick in bed” due to […]
Twenty years ago
Twenty years ago, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry attached to the Third Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division (from the Third Brigade of the 2d Armored Division (Forward)), was the only US unit in Iraq. We were fifteen clicks from the Saudi border, screening for the sweep east of Schwartzkopf’s “Hail Mary” strategy. For two days […]
Vietnam love story
Tman sends us a link to a sad love story of a journalist headed to Vietnam, a Virgin Mary medallion and the woman he left behind; It was Feb. 10, 1971. Huet, 43, had boarded a South Vietnamese military helicopter in the town of Khe Sanh, near the border with Laos, with a mission to […]
Marine receives Navy Cross 45 years after saving his battalion
Ned Seath finally got his just reward 45 years and thousands of miles away from the battlefield; On the night of July 16, 1966, Lance Cpl. Ned Seath saved Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines. He had been painfully wounded by mortar fire in the leg and hand but frantically worked to assemble an M60 […]
Desert Shield/Desert Storm Retrospective
This looks interesting President George H.W. Bush is hosting a retrospective on Desert Sheild/Storm at Texas A&M which includes a pretty good panel… Participants include His Royal Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, The Amir of the State of Kuwait His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of […]
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