Marines
Marine SgtMaj steals valor, loses all four rockers
Breaking news last night, of a Marine Corps sergeant major losing all of his rockers after pleading guilty to wearing awards that he was not entitled to. This included a CAR and Purple Heart, but he really fleshed out his fruit salad with a lot of extra awards. I don’t know how he ***edited to […]
Valor Friday
This week brought sad news of the death of John Kinsel Sr. He was one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talker. The Code Talkers weren’t all Navajo, but they were the most famous. Some of the languages other than Navajo that were used were Lakota, Meskwaki, Mohawk, Comanche, Tlingit, Hopi, Cree, and Crow. Code […]
Delta deplanes Marine for anti-suicide shirt
Marine Catherine Banks was flying out of San Francisco International last week when the flight attendant (allegedly male) asked her to deplane. After getting off the plane, Banks said that the flight attendant told her that her shirt — which read “Do not give in to the war within. End veteran suicide” — was “threatening.” […]
Columbus Day shorts, aka Monday Morsels
Been almost a week since the news hit that potential First Gentleman Doug Emhoff smacked his lady friend around in Cannes back before he was married to Kamala. One would expect a media firestorm over it… after all, Justice Kavanaugh got grilled heavily over his behavior while still a teenager, right? Let’s be honest…since TAH […]
Vets reunited 73 years after kidnapping
Hard to believe this one. A young lad of 6, Luis Armando Albino, was kidnapped from the Oakland CA park in which he was playing with his brother and never found. Albino and five of his siblings, brought by their mother from Puerto Rico, had just moved to Oakland the summer before his abduction in […]
Valor Friday
Thanksgiving Day is generally known in America as that last Thursday in November where we eat turkey and watch the Dallas Cowboys lose a football game, but it’s also the name for other holidays around the world. It’s celebrated on 25 October in the tiny Caribbean island nation of Grenada. The reason, if you can […]
Valor Friday
Longtime readers will know that I have a soft spot for the heroism of those in the chaplain and medical corps. Today’s feature hits both. A recent Military Times article highlights some of the incredible battlefield bravery of Doctor Orlando Petty. While serving at an aid station at the front, Petty, a Navy doctor attached […]
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 […]
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