Army
Army Appearance Standards Changes
Trivia question: what percentage of soldiers are female? Black? That will come up later. The Army is tightening up appearance standards, and rolling back some Biden-era changes. Women will be permitted to use clear nail polish, as opposed to the previous rules, which placed limits on only “extreme” colors. The changes also impose more specific […]
Army suffers burst of sanity
The Army has finally discovered that some folks in excellent condition don’t necessarily look it. Soldiers who score a 465 or better on the Army Fitness Test will not be subject to flagging actions for body fat percentage, the service decided this month. An Army Directive distributed Sept. 4 allows for an exemption to […]
M-7 dropped from testing program
As we’ve previously discussed, the Army decided they needed a more-lethal, longer-range round – too many firefights in Afghanistan where we were outranged, they say. I can sorta see that – the M4/M16 family uses a pretty short-legged cartridge in the 5.56. It’s better than it was in the old days, when a 55 […]
Maryland Governor Wes Moore gets Bronze Star 18 years after lying about having one
Maryland Governor, Wes Moore, found himself in hot water when he implied that he received a Bronze Star Medal because of his combat deployment. Moore, while applying for a White house fellowship in 2006, claimed to have received the Bronze Star from his Afghanistan deployment. When it turned out that he did not have it, […]
Valor Friday
For the several thousand men who landed at Normandy on 6 June 1944, many wouldn’t make it to VE Day just shy of one year later. As with the men that fought, the equipment was even more disposable. So it’s unusual that a tank like the M4 Sherman pictured above, named “Bomb”, would make it […]
Wednesday short takes
That Earth-shattering Big Story? Not today. First up, you may remember the odd case of the Massachusetts cop who was trying to buy a gun for his cop job and triggered an ICE response? A Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities has agreed to voluntarily leave the country, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Valor Friday
If there’s a more Civil War-era name than Galusha Pennypacker, it’s his given name of Uriah Galusha Pennypacker. He was born somewhere in the vicinity of 1840-1844, the dates are uncertain. His gravestone lists 1 June 1842 as a birth year. His family had deep roots in his native Pennsylvania. His great-great-grandfather had immigrated from […]
Valor Friday
I came across the story of Cathay Williams, the only known female Buffalo Soldier, and found it interesting. From the National Park Service; Cathay Williams was born to an enslaved mother and a free father in Independence, Missouri in 1844. During her adolescence, she worked as a house slave on the Johnson plantation on the outskirts of […]
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