Marines
Every Marine a Rifleman
Marines win top sniper competition By Eve Sampson Two Marine snipers brought home the top prize at this year’s International Sniper Competition in a rare win for the Corps. Staff Sgt. Tyler Johnson and Sgt. Spencer Harrell took first place at the annual competition, which was last week at Fort Benning, Georgia, becoming only the […]
Two old guys
Couple of folks you may want to meet. First up is Joe “Bazooka Joe” Pietroforte. Joe clocks in at 107. At 22, he was drafted, finished basic training and was shipped overseas to fight in the European theater. “I went over on the Queen Mary,” Pietroforte told CBS News, Los Angeles. “They shipped us up […]
Dakota Meyer Graduates BRC
Dakota Meyer – a name we all remember, the young Marine who was presented with the Medal of Honor for repeatedly re-entering an ambush in Ganjgal to rescue fallen fellow Marines back when he was 21 in 2009. President Obama presented him with the award in 2011. Long time ago, and he deserves a peaceful […]
Legal Monday, and not-nice charity
You deploy, you leave most of your stuff behind, and if you have a POV, you park it in the designated lot where it will presumably be somewhat safer than in back of your off-post digs, right? We have talked before about some of the unscrupulous folks who prey on the military – hey, […]
Send in the Marines
USS Tripoli (LHA-7) Amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli and elements of the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) will join USS Gerald R. Ford and Abraham Lincoln carrier strike groups already on-station. USS Tripoli, 2,500 Marines headed to Middle East The move bolsters the 50,000 troops and two carrier strike groups that are already in […]
Valor Friday
Here’s one of the most Marine-looking Marines to ever Marine. Kenneth Walsh was the #4 top scoring Marine fighter ace of World War II. Here’s how he earned that shiny blue ribbon that outranks all the others. From Military Times; World War II in the Pacific produced a remarkable 10 fighter pilots of the United […]
Medal of Honor Monday
It’s getting hard to keep up with the flurry of valor decorations being awarded/upgraded lately. I’m not complaining, as the people being honored have, in almost all cases, been very long, long overdue. I hope to report on many more of these award upgrades. As Lmn0351 noted in my Valor Friday piece last week, the […]
The GOP senator broke my hand!
The fella, who looks like a raging jackass, acted like a raging jackass. You see, while wearing his Marine blues to a Senate hearing, he interrupted to “protest” the Iran war. He yelled something about how the Jews run US foreign policy (I’m not joking), then got “escorted” out by Capitol Police. Like a petulant […]
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