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Valor Friday
Once more my house is a mess of sick people. I spent most of Wednesday evening throwing up, not even a full two weeks after the last go round of food poisoning. I tell ya, having little kids seems to be a recipe for just constant illness. With that in mind, you’ll have to forgive […]
Army four-star “helps” lower ranker
Today’s weirdness: looks like an Army 4-star, Gen. Charles Hamilton, got seriously involved in manipulating the promotion of a subordinate. Gen. Charles Hamilton, who oversees Army Materiel Command, spent about a month last year trying to pull strings behind the scenes for a female lieutenant colonel to breeze through the service’s Battalion Commander Assessment […]
Valor Friday
Last week I briefly mentioned Ruben Rivers. Let’s dive deeper into the amazing legacy of the man. Rivers was born in rural central Oklahoma in 1918 as one of eleven children. Half-black and half-Cherokee, Rivers and his siblings grew up working the family farm. He worked for the railroad before enlisting with two of his […]
Music artists and panelists canceled appearance due to US Army sponsorship
South by Southwest Festival brings in music artists and panelists as well as those who listen to them. However, for this year’s event, there were appearance cancellations from over 80 music artists and multiple panelists. These individuals had issues with the U.S. Military’s support for Israel’s war effort against Hamas. Governor Greg Abbort basically said […]
West Point gets rid of “Duty, Honor, Country”
The Long Grey Line removed “Duty, Honor, Country” from their mission statement this week. It was replaced with “Army Values.” The three words were made the official motto for the US Military Academy at West Point more than 100 years ago. It was adopted as part of the school’s official coat of arms in 1898. […]
Valor Friday
Army Times is reporting on one of the latest uses of new media for the Army. A comic book is being made by the service that highlights the unimaginable bravery of Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers. I’ll be taking a deep dive into Sergeant Rivers for a proper Valor Friday piece next week. Here’s a bit […]
The US Army is revamping its force structure to deal with future wars
The U.S. Army is planning to cut thousands of jobs, by up to 24,000, as it moves to restructure in anticipation for the next major war. However, the Army says that this will not involve actual service members being asked to leave. Instead, billets that are not filled will be cut, such as unfilled billets […]
Bogus flag, bogus vet
A vet named Michael Greenwalt donated an American flag to the Antioch, CA Historical Society Museum nine years back. It began with a gesture meant to commemorate the end of the Vietnam War, as Michael Greenawalt, a 60-year-old Army veteran, donated what was believed to be one of the last American flags to leave Vietnam, […]
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