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VA & Pentagon fight over sharing; vets pay
The Stars & Stripes reports that the VA and the pentagon can’t come to an agreement on the information system that would allow them to seamlessly transfer veterans’ records – like the big immature babies that those agencies have become. DoD is shopping for a big wasteful POS system that doesn’t exist yet and the […]
Bill to lower precedence of Distinguished Warfare Medal
Members of Congress have begun to intercede on the Defense Department’s efforts to introduce a new medal designed to reward combatants who are removed from the battlefield by geography. DoD had originally planned t make the medal higher in precedence than the Bronze Star Medal which rewards performance on the battlefield, but warriors have complained […]
Oscars? Meh
Several of you want express your outrage at the First Lady who graced us with her presence at the Oscars last night with some mannequins behind her. I don’t understand the symbolism of the military members behind her since she didn’t mention them or their service…but she is the First Lady and I’m sure, guessing […]
Dems Clueless About Combat
Warfare has progressed geometrically since I was a young sergeant on the ground in Vietnam. The huge advances in computer and electronic capabilities have given our American forces capabilities never before possessed in any of our previous wars. Among the most widely known of these is drone warfare, wherein an unmanned, armed, aerial vehicle enters […]
Broadwell removed from LTC Promotion List
CNN is reporting that Paula Broadwell, General David Petraeus’ biographer, has been removed the LTC promotion list. I guess she was a Major in the Reserves, and, you know, the high standards that the Army expects from their officers these days, and Broadwell has been found lacking, I guess. So I guess that pretty much […]
Fundamental Change Equals Rotting from the Head
A buddy out in Guam sent me this link to an article at PacificFlyer.com outlining the Navy Department’s new “21st Century Sailor and Marine Program.” Go here and read it for yourself: Navy’s New Plan to Halt Re-enlistment Reading this steaming pile of cockamamie, liberal do-goody BS, then factoring in departing SecDef Panetta’s recent elimination […]
Defense cuts may extend combat tours
Fox News reports that Army chief of Staff Ray Odierno announced that troops may have their combat tours to Afghanistan extended next year so that the Defense Department can save some money; “We will try to divert money so we do not have to extend people in Afghanistan,” Odierno told a conference at the Brookings […]
TAH on CNN again
Matt Smith from CNN called yesterday and we chatted about women in the military…what else, right? And it’s one echoed by Jonn Lilyea, a former infantry sergeant who now publishes a military blog, “This Ain’t Hell.” Lilyea, who fought in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, said he believes physical standards will be relaxed “in order […]
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