Marine Corps
Military services working to remove all identifying information from promotions processes
ninja sends us this article from Stars and Stripes. Top leaders for each of the Defense Department’s military services are working to remove all personal identifying information from promotions packets, the top U.S. military officer said Thursday. The top uniformed officers and the civilian secretaries of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force have […]
Daniel Greenwell – Phony SEAL and Fake PH & BSM
The folks at Military Phony sent us their work on Daniel Austin Greenwell. Greenwell is from New Harmony, Indiana and is 32 year old at the time of this writing – Sept 2020. As you can see from the first photo of him, he wears a Navy SEAL Trident on his Navy uniform. On Greenwell’s […]
The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color – The New York Times
A respected, combat-tested Black colonel has been passed over three times for promotion to brigadier general. What does his fate say about the Corps? It says many things about the Corps. Most of which the pansy assed civilians that sop up this kind of nonsense will never understand. Chesty Puller was awarded the Navy […]
New ID cards coming for retirees, dependents
For the first time in almost 30 years, the DOD is changing the ID card. It looks a lot like the CAC many will be familiar with, but is for those who do not rate a CAC. From the DOD; The Department of Defense is transitioning from its current paper-based Uniformed Services Identification (USID) card […]
The ‘Deadliest Recruit on Parris Island’
Pfc. Austin Ferrell Jeff LPH sends us a story that’s sure to warm the hearts of Marines everywhere. Marines have no heart you say? Au contraire, a Master Guns I worked with had one- in a jar on his desk. Without further ado, Philip Athey When Pfc. Austin Ferrell transitioned from a recruit to a […]
How are flag officers made?
Perpetual consumers of taxpayer funding, the Rand Corporation has released a new study on how the various services select O-6’s to become O-7’s. Some of this will surprise nobody. From Military.com; “The value of command is universal. For all the military services, time and successful performance in command (particularly at the O-5 and O-6 grades) […]
105-year-old WWII veteran celebrates milestone birthday with drive-by salute
A couple of days late in catching this, so I apologize for that. This is a story that will warm the stone cold hearts of all you DWs. From Fox News; Retired Maj. Bill White, believed to be the oldest living Marine, celebrated a socially distanced 105th birthday with a drive-by salute from his Stockton, Calif., neighbors. The Mustang […]
Marines’ shortlist Brig Gen for promotion who was reprimanded for using his aide as a servant
Rick Uribe, a USMC Brigadier General, has had his name come up for promotion to Major General. Back in 2018, he was under investigation for using his aide (a company-grade officer in this case) for personal errands, but limited his alleged abuse of his authority to the Iraqi Theater during 2016-17. His aide “only did […]
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