Veterans in politics
LTC Ernst emerges as front runner in Iowa Senate race
Country Singer sends us a link to the Free Beacon which claims that Iraq War veteran and current battalion commander of the Iowa National Guard’s 185th CSSB, Lieutenant Colonel Joni Ernst has emerged as the front runner for the seat of phony Vietnam veteran Senator Tom Harkin; Ernst has 25 percent support among likely primary […]
Shane Osborn for Senate
You probably don’t recognize his name, you hardly remember the reason that you should – he was the pilot of the aircraft that a Chinese pilot damaged forcing the intelligence gathering aircraft to land in China. Osborn and 23 others were held and interrogated for 12 days by the Chinese. You know, back in the […]
Anger Understandable but Cool Headed Thinking Needed
There’s a lot of understandable anger being expressed here at TAH and other military blogs about the treachery being enacted in Congress against the military community. Believe me, I agree that, once again, America has betrayed its military and the anger is righteous and expected. But as an old soldier in his seventies, I can […]
Lautenberg, Senate’s last WWII vet passes
Regardless of what you think about his politics, or the circumstances that brought him out of retirement and back to the Senate, Frank Lautenberg’s passing marks the end of an era when nearly every member of the Senate had served in the military. Lautenberg served during World War II in the Signal Corps from 1942 […]
Jeff Denham holds DoD and VA feet to the fire
Someone dropped off a link to our Facebook page to a video of Congressman Jeff Denham, an Air Force veteran representing California’s 10th District in the hearings this past week about the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs inability to gin up a system by which they can seamlessly share veterans’ records. He […]
Gabriel Gomez for Senate
There’s a real deal SEAL running in the special election in Massachusetts’ Senate race this year. Yes, I wrote our buddy, Don Shipley about his creds, because that’s the environment we’re operating in these days. According to the Washington Post, he’s the son of Colombian immigrants as well as a local Boston businessman; The GOP […]
Chuck Hagle for SecDef?
COB6 emailed that he just heard that Chuck Hagle is being considered for Secretary of Defense. So I checked the news and The National Journal is reporting that he’s being considered for either Defense or State; Hagel has been critical of the current Republican Party since leaving office in 2008, even backing Democratic Senate candidate […]
Vets go to Washington
The Associated Press reports that nine veterans of the current wars in the Middle East are headed to Congress after their successful elections. of course, the main focus of the article is Tammy Duckworth, this blog has been sufficiently critical of Ms. Duckworth, at this point, we’ll sit back and see what she accomplishes for […]
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