Army
Name that ribbon rack
A while back I did a movie magic analysis of a screen used awards rack. As I was cleaning up my computer today I noticed a couple of old pictures I’d tucked away and then completely forgotten about. You may have noticed that the recent hullabaloo around Walz has disrupted some of our regular programming. […]
Tuesday update
Welcome to Tuesday. It may have gone unnoticed, but yet another CSM hit the news in Washington – not the erstwhile Mr. Walz, not the CSM Veronica Knapp (“in charge of the Army branch that oversees operations across the greater D.C. region”) relieved August 8, but yet another: Command Sgt. Maj. Harold “Ed” Jarrell, the […]
Tuesday follow-ups
As predicted, Ellsworth AFB is going to suffer in the aftermath of the damning report on the B-1 bomber crash we talked about last week. Col. Mark Kimball, the 28th Operations Group commander, was relieved of command Friday “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command, based on the findings […]
Miss USA title goes to Army officer
Yes, Ma’am! Miss USA is Alma Cooper, better known as 2nd Lieutenant Cooper, is a West Point graduate currently attended Stanford while an officer in the Army. Somehow she still finds time to do pageants. Cooper’s crowning follows a tumultuous year that’s seen a few Miss USAs. I’m sure I don’t need to tell any […]
Valor Friday
It’s the end of September, 1918. At about the same time that the German high command is trying to tell the Kaiser that they will lose to war and it’s best to capitulate now, an American all-black infantry regiment is attempting to take Hill 188. Hill 188 is a tall, well defended German post overlooking […]
Army antiterrorism training included anti-abortion groups as among the extremist groups
Soldiers receiving training for gate guard saw a slide show presentation related to terrorism. Among the groups listed as extremists were both left and right groups that should not have been listed. One of those groups were antiabortion groups. Republicans took issue with the inclusion of the antiabortion groups and sent a letter to the […]
Valor Friday
Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis of Staten Island, NY was on his last day in Afghanistan. It was his third combat deployment, and he was only 24 years old. He’d enlisted seven years prior in the Army infantry, getting his parents’ permission to enlist at 17. Soon after he saw Iraq and then Afghanistan, with this […]
Valor Friday
It’s the spring of 1862. The United States has been cleaved in two, with the southern states secceeding from the Union a year previously. With Lincoln in the White House, the Union is waging a war to reunite the country. The Civil War was in its infancy, but already the war had claimed more American […]
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