Afghanistan
White House official dismissive of a group of US veterans
John Kirby, White House National Security Council communications advisor, did not check the recipient list before sending his email. Consequently, Fox News Digital received a note that Kirby did not intend for them to receive. Kirby intended to let other White House staff know that there was no use in responding to the handful of […]
Donald Trump joins family members of 13 US service members in wreath laying ceremony
Donald Trump, and family members of the 13 U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, participated in a wreath laying ceremony. The 13 service members were killed as a result of an ISIS attack against those evacuating Afghanistan. Physically absent from the ceremony were Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Both […]
Is Tim Walz a Case of Stolen Valor?
When enough isn’t enough. We feel as if we really haven’t squeezed everything out of this yet, so… The folks at MilitaryPhony have sent us their work on Tim Walz. Although they are waiting on official military records, they decided to summarize the issues surrounding VP Candidate & Minnesota Governor Walz. As a community with […]
The Taliban celebrates three years in power
Without the full benefit of US military backing during the withdrawal, units of the Afghan army collapsed and disbanded. They left, in their wake, US and NATO military equipment provided for use by the Afghani Army. As with ISIS in Iraq, and the North Vietnamese in South Vietnam, the Taliban captured these equipment. Since taking […]
Wednesday follow-ups
You may remember Janet Mello, a civilian employee at Fr. Sam at San Antonio who was accused of fraudulently scamming the military out of $109,000,000. A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development program for children of military families and using it to fund an extravagant […]
Valor Friday
Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis of Staten Island, NY was on his last day in Afghanistan. It was his third combat deployment, and he was only 24 years old. He’d enlisted seven years prior in the Army infantry, getting his parents’ permission to enlist at 17. Soon after he saw Iraq and then Afghanistan, with this […]
CNN Faces Defamation Lawsuit Over Afghan Evac
CNN To Face Defamation Case In Florida Over Alleged False Narrative About Afghanistan Evacuations A Florida appeals court Wednesday said a security consultant could pursue a punitive damages claim against CNN in a defamation and trade-libel lawsuit stemming from the evacuation of Afghan citizens as the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. A three-judge panel of […]
Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction dismissal to be considered by US Appeals Court
A U.S. District Court Judge dismissed the conviction of Bowe Bergdahl. The Justice Department appealed this dismissal at the U.S. Court of Appeals at the District of Columbia. The reason for the conviction dismissal involved an argument that the presiding judge for the original trial had a “conflict of interest”. Bergdahl’s lawyers also argued that […]
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