Army
Valor Friday
BBC (by way of AOL), has a story about a museum appealing for donations to purchase medals related to a grizzly WWII battle I’m ashamed to say I was unfamiliar with. It is the Battle of Geilenkirchen, which was a British-led endeavor, but was the first combat action of the war for the American 84th […]
Valor Friday
I came across this Military.com article about the oldest ever Buffalo Soldier and thought I’d share it. From Military.com; Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, heavily armored tanks. His life connected three centuries, along with every conflict from the American Frontier Wars […]
Elon Musk and Senator Mike Lee want to check Fort Knox gold reserves
Elon Musk and Senator Mike Lee, Republican from Utah, are interested in checking the gold reserves at Fort Knox. Musk expressed interest in doing a video walk through. Lee described how he tried to gain access to Fort Knox but was told that he couldn’t enter. When asked why, they told him that it was […]
Let them eat cake!
Better take your blood pressure meds… I know mine were insufficient. We all know how BAS is supposed to work, right? You live in the barracks, you eat in the chow halls free – because you have ‘the card’. Now, you pay for the card – it costs your monthly BAS payment but you should […]
Crash update, DeepSeek warning
NTSB has released updated information on the January 30 crash between an Army Blackhawk and the American Airlines flight near Reagan airport in DC. One helicopter pilot thought they were at 300 feet and the other thought they were at 200 feet. The NTSB is not prepared to say exactly how high the helicopter was […]
Valor Friday
Earlier this week, SecDef Hegseth re-renamed Fort Bragg. Instead of naming it after the legendarily bad Confederate General Braxton Bragg, the sprawling facility (one of the world’s largest by population with more than 52,000 military assigned) is now named for a WWII hero of the Battle of the Bulge. Private First Class Roland Bragg earned […]
Fort Bragg is back
SecDef Hegseth ordered the renaming of Fort Liberty (Formerly Fort Bragg) back to Fort Bragg late last night. It is not being re-renamed for Braxton Bragg (the original namesake and notoriously terrible CSA general) but instead for Private First Class Roland Bragg of Maine. PFC Bragg earned the Silver Star for bravery in action against […]
Tuesday riches
SanFranNan hits the news again… it hasn’t been a week since she was again named as one of the premier insider traders in Congress. Her defense at the time was that her HUSBAND is the trader. She doesn’t buy anything, and I guess the implication is that a) they don’t ever talk (with her as […]
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