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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 […]
Robert E. Wilson – Fake Beirut Sniper Resurfaces
Robert Earl Wilson Jr (aka “9mmParabellum0321” and “Theron D. Patron“) has resurfaced after reinventing himself. He posted a photo of a Marine Beirut Sniper tattoo, which raised some eyebrows among actual Beirut Veterans and snipers. Nobody in the Beirut veteran community seems to have heard of him. It turns out that Robert E. Wilson Jr […]
Two Jordanians attempted to breach Quantico Marine Corps Base
Marines at the gate stopped a box truck containing two Jordanians. The driver claimed that they were subcontracted by Amazon, and that they were making a delivery to the Post Office. However, neither the driver nor the passenger presented the credentials needed to access the base. The Marines ordered them to go to the holding […]
Sergeant Shields Student from Grenade Blast
Marine shielded his student from grenade with his body — and survived By Irene Loewenson When then-Sgt. Brett Meil saw one of his students inadvertently activate a grenade during Marine infantry training in June 2023, he yelled at him to toss the grenade into the target area. But the student froze with fear. In between […]
Valor Friday
Kurt Chew-Een Lee was the child of Chinese immigrants. Growing up in Sacramento, when America entered World War II, Lee was only 15. As a participant in JROTC during those high school years, it should be no surprise that he enlisted as soon as he turned 18. The eldest son of six children (three boys, […]
Marines find a variety of sins in F-35 delivery
Yeah, back on my favorite flying fiasco. (I know, when they do work as a fighter they work very well.) Bear in mind: the Marine variant costs a cool $94,400,000 (yes, that is almost $95 mill) a pop. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 311, or VMFA-311, at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego discovered […]
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