Marines
General reportedly cancels Marines’ flight out of A-stan so they can ‘clean the base for the Taliban’ before leaving
I really hope this isn’t true, but with everything else happening the last two weeks, I fear it is. Poetrooper sends in an article from National File; A viral Instagram post highlights a text message exchange in which a U.S. military servicemember states that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is being forced to clean a […]
Breaking news, 8k troops deploying to Kabul to secure evacuees
About that Afghanistan withdrawal… Jeff LPH 3 sends in this breaking news from Military Times; Three infantry battalions are on their way to the Kabul airport, the Defense Department announced Thursday, as the State Department moves to evacuate civilians from its embassy there. At the same time, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters, another 1,000 […]
Valor Friday
We lost another of The Greatest Generation this week. Kob sent in the sad news that on Monday, August 2nd retired US Marine Corps Colonel Dave Severance passed away after a solid 102 years, 30 of those years were spent fighting in two wars in service to his nation. Colonel Severance’s biggest claim to fame […]
Valor Friday
In the history of the Medal of Honor there have been only two instances in which the action for which the medal was earned were caught on camera. Colonel Joe Jackson (USAF), who we’ve talked about before, had earned his MoH in Vietnam (after serving in both WWII and Korea) for bringing his C-123 Provider […]
Dan Wall – Still Waddling the Lie
Daniel J. Wall is still at it. Telling people he is a disabled veteran. We wrote about Dan here and here. He claims he was the BLT 2/8 supply officer that inspected the truck that bombed the US Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon on October 23, 1983. Wall then claims that he was allegedly trapped […]
Marine veteran cleared of urination on Taliban involvement
James Clement, then a captain in the Marine Corps, found out that Marines under his command pissed on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters. During the investigation that followed, Clement discovered that the nature of the investigation was aimed at charging him. He was not aware that the incident or the video occurred. He received […]
Marine Raider guilty in death of Green Beret SSG
Jeff LPH 3 sends in word that the court martial for GySgt Mario Madera-Rodriguez, a Marine Raider, has returned a guilty verdict. He got off on the felony murder charge, but was guilty on the other counts, to wit guilty of hazing, false official statements, conspiracy charges and involuntary manslaughter. Army Times reports; A military […]
US military stumped by box of armor-piercing grenades stolen, other reports of scores of missing military weapons
Got a two-parter here. Got this in off the wire from Jeff LPH 3. First up is this report of a box of armor-piercing 40mm grenades. They turned up in a backyard in Atlanta still in their box, covered with a pink pillowcase. The canister began its journey at Blount Island, a U.S. Marine Corps […]
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