Air Force
Follow-up Friday- Quantico spies, AR ban, Osprey crash
Let’s start with the Jordanian fellas who wandered onto Quantico May 3. Illegal, trespassing on a military base… throw the book at ’em, no? Uh…no. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official confirmed to Fox News Digital that Hasan Yousef Hamdan and Mohammad Khair Dabous were allowed to bond out by an immigration judge in […]
Thursday updates – Warren, Ohio, B1, dog flights
Well, yesterday thebesig wrote about what Kamala wants to do on gun control. Today, let’s visit someone related, Fauxcahontas. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants on Sunday, arguing Vice President Kamala Harris is the candidate to “get it done.” Jake Tapper commented that illegal immigration […]
Friday updates
Well, leading off we have AF Major General Phillip Stewart. The general was accused of sexual assault, conduct unbecoming an officer, and one specification of dereliction of duty. Prior to the trial, he pleaded guilty to the other specification, as well as an adultery charge. A panel of eight officers found Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart […]
Special operations commander charged for choking family members
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Brent Byng, 44, was in command of the 19th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field in Florida. Not long after taking command, Byng was charged for committing violence against a couple of his family members. One charge involved Byng’s choking his wife until she could not draw breath. Another charge involved […]
AF General on trial this week
Air Force Major General Phillip Stewart has been accused of a variety of sexual crimes, and is due to be court-martialed for them. Court-martial proceedings for an Air Force two-star general charged with sexual assault are being held this week in Texas, marking only the second time in history that a general officer in the […]
Valor Friday
We talked about Philip Conran briefly several years back. At the time, I wrote a piece on him for Valor Friday, but it appears that it was never shared with the blog. Here it is, five years later. A congressman from California, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D), has introduced legislation authorizing the president to upgrade Air […]
Valor Friday
For a time during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many awards for combat valor were being awarded in secret. At one point it was nearly 20% of the service crosses and Silver Stars. This is done to protect the recipient and their family, most often while they’re deployed (or subject to likely subsequent and […]
Thursday updates- Fortson, Biden, Lee, and 6/6
You should recall Roger Fortson, the young airman killed by a deputy sheriff in Florida after answering his door with a gun in his hand. For a good start – the deputy has been fired. Deputy Eddie Duran, an Army veteran who had been with the department since 2019, was fired from the Okaloosa County […]
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