Disposable Warriors
As Long as We’re On the Subject of Veterans
This is kind of long, but it has to do with how veterans have been treated in the past in some place other than the USA. Does this sound familiar? An unpopular war in a foreign location that nobody knows much about, nor does anyone really care, but which costs lives and leaves veterans disliked […]
When they start pimping out the corpse of a dead veteran for votes…everyone should lose.
The corpse of Jason Simcakoski seems to be popular fodder for political grazing these days. Jason died in 2014 while in the care of the VA. Now, Leah Vukmir and Tammy Baldwin are using his death in their respective campaign adds. The parents and widow of a Marine veteran who died at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center […]
A Room With a View
The author of this article, Duke Barrett, is a friend of Pdoggbiker, the owner of the Cherries Writer blog. Very much worth your time to read it. Pdoggbiker was kind enough to consent to my reposting it here. From the article at Cherries Writer…. Room With a View “At approximately 3 PM on yet another […]
“Faggot” gets Lt. Col. Marcus J. Mainz fired.
Come on Jimbo, show us some of that Warrior Monk stuff and fix this nonsense. Military Times reports An infantry battalion commander sacked in the middle of a deployment with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, was at least partially fired for allegedly using a term that could be disparaging to members of the LGBTQ […]
Asking for pardon
1LT Clint Lorance has people asking for a pardon for his for murdering two Afghan men. According to this story, Lorance ordered his unit to shoot the two Afghans, but did not shoot them himself, and there is evidence connecting the two Afghan men to a roadside bomb that exploded. http://www.stripes.com/news/trump-is-asked-to-pardon-army-officer-convicted-of-afghan-murders-1.452228 This brings up the […]
Ending the 20-Year Military Retirement: Buyer’s Remorse?
Jonn’s written previously here at TAH about that new military retirement plan the current gang of fools and tools running the show in DC Administration conned Congress into passing convinced Congress to approve. The bottom line: the former 20 year military retirement plan goes away, effective for people entering in 2018, in favor of a […]
Fifty Years Ago Yesterday
On 10 August 1964, Public Law 88-408 was signed by the POTUS, and became effective. It’s better known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. That resolution was described by then-Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach as “the functional equivalent of a declaration of war.” The resolution was passed by Congress at the request of the […]
Hate to Say I Told You So . . . .
The Army has announced that more than 20 central boards meeting next year will also consider soldiers for involuntary separation, according to the Army Times. All senior NCO promotion boards meeting next year will also serve as QSP/QMP screening boards. For those unfamiliar with the difference: the Army’s QSP (Qualitative Service Program) is intended to […]
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