Army
Valor Friday
I spent all day yesterday doing various doctor appointments for myself and kids, so I didn’t get to sit down and write like I usually like to do. Therefore, this week’s VF will be copied cribbed benchmarked from the US Army itself. If we talked about Command Sergeant Major Matthew Williams when he got the […]
President Trump wants a military parade for the Army’s 250th birthday- Media claims that the parade is for his birthday
June 14, 2025, will be the 250th birthday for the United States Army. For the occasion, the Trump administration wants to throw a parade to commemorate the event. June 14 is also Flag Day, the anniversary of when the US flag was adopted. But wait! There’s more! President Donald Trump’s birthday is on June 14. Where […]
Valor Friday
Harold Bascom Durham Jr was born 12 October 1942 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The city of his birth is deep in cotton and tobacco country, and was the site of a 1962 Martin Luther King Jr. speech where he used his “I have a dream” line a year before he delivered it on the […]
Dennis Arndt, actor and vet dies
I like to think that every vet should be remembered. In this case, I had no idea what kind of life he led – and was surprised at what he had done. Dennis Arndt – not a household name. I suspect he was best known for what he was the recipient of … he was […]
Three vets pass on
Joe Harris, believed to have been the oldest surviving WWII Paratrooper, died March 14 at the young age of 108. 72 jumps before he got out – hardly a 5 jump chump. SGT Harris was a member of A Company of the 555th Parachute Infantry, aka the “Triple Nickels” or sometimes the “Buffalo Nickels.” They […]
Valor Friday
The humble looking enlisted man you see before you with a CIB has a distinctive little ribbon just below that among his fruit salad. Even without the photo being in color, the brilliant light blue ribbon with its five white stars stands out among the other awards on display. Bill Crawford was a young private […]
FAA closes Washington route, DOGE cuts
The FAA has announced it will permanently shut down helicopter flights in the DC area on the same route that brought down an American Airlines plane on January 29, killing all aboard both aircraft. Before the collision, there were 28 government agencies authorized to fly helicopters near Reagan National, including the Department of Defense, military […]
Tuesday tidbits
Let’s open with Jack Texeira, the enlisted Air Force kid who posted thousands of pages of classified material for his game=playing buddies to read. He got 15 years for that little trick last fall – but he’s back. Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information […]
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