Afghanistan
Kabul Airport Attack Official Report Questioned
Kabul Airport VBIED Attack The Pentagon investigation into the 26 August 2021 attack outside Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate that killed Americans and Afghans was caused by a single bomber who detonated a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED). General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., Commander, US Central Command, said that it was not a “complex attack”. The […]
Joe Rejects Pentagon’s Afghan Report
PINO Biden According to the Pentagon’s exhaustive 2,000 page after action report, the senior officers in charge of the Afghan evacuation were forced to continuously alter their plans due to nonstop interference from afar. The report of the final withdrawal of US forces and civilians from Kabul faulted the Biden administration for the chaos that […]
SAS Soldier: “Fake Leg Not a Trophy”
SAS soldier ‘never’ saw fake leg as trophy Luke Costin A serving SAS soldier admits he drank from a dead Taliban man’s prosthetic leg but says he never saw the item as a trophy. Giving evidence at the defamation trial of highly decorated special forces veteran Ben Roberts-Smith, the soldier said the leg helped him […]
News From the Land of ISIS
It appears that some US SpecForce guys did a number on the ISIS leader known as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi . This is fine with me. Nice to see my tax dollars at work on a “special project” and getting results. I do wonder if those marones are still building truck bombs and blowing themselves […]
Family of Fallen Marine Sues Alec Baldwin
This story is becoming interesting. I’ll give you the really quick version and you can watch or read more for details. * Marine LCpl Rylee McCollum is killed in Afghanistan, one of 13 killed in Aug * Alec Baldwin sees the story and reaches out to the family * Baldwin donated $5,000 to Rylee’s sister […]
I ran the Kabul evacuation’s airspace and all I got was an AF Comm Medal
Some of the Airmen who ran the hectic airspace into, out of, and above Biden’s colossally botched Afghanistan pullout last summer recently received awards. The captain who ran the operation, and apparently worked hand-in-hand with the Taliban, received a Bronze Star (an in-theater Meritorious Service Medal) while the two senior airmen (E-4) received Air Force […]
Hey look, we’re throwing more money into Afghanistan, but not to get our allies out
After Biden’s botched pull out of Afghanistan last August, the country has been in more turmoil than…well…sometime in the Third Century maybe? Anywho, while we still have allies among the many people left behind when we just tucked tail, ran, and left behind billions in military equipment for the Taliban, there’s a humanitarian crisis. What does […]
Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, Medal of Honor recipient
One of this site’s favorite heroes, US Army Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, will be receiving his posthumous Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony tomorrow. This concludes a 16 year fight to get him the recognition he so well deserves. I wrote about Cashe for a Valor Friday piece a while back, which […]
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