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Desert Storm Anniversary

| January 18, 2023 | 64 Comments
Desert Storm Anniversary

Thirty-two years ago saw the launch of Desert Storm. The softening up of targets was initiated on 17 Jan 1991 before the ground invasion began. The invasion came to a close with the American-led Liberation of Kuwait on 28 February 1991.

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Researchers Think They’ve Found the Cause of Gulf War Illness

| May 25, 2022 | 24 Comments
Researchers Think They’ve Found the Cause of Gulf War Illness

Researchers think it’s caused by exposure to the nerve agent sarin. Which is what the vets have been saying for decades now. Thanks to ninja for sending this one in. From Military.com; After nearly 30 years of trying to prove a theory — that an environmental toxin was responsible for sickening roughly 250,000 U.S. troops […]

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Gulf Traffic Under Attack…. Still/Again

| August 9, 2021 | 7 Comments
Gulf Traffic Under Attack…. Still/Again

Reuters Image of Mercer Street tanker A Japanese-owned tanker, used by Israelis to move oil, has come under attack by Iran. In fact, all shipping in the Persian Gulf is being harassed by Iran’s “navy”. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58124489 From the article:  Throughout the past week an explosive investigations team from the US Navy’s aircraft carrier the USS […]

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Doug Reeves – Fake Navy SEAL Diver, Persian Gulf War Participant

| July 19, 2021 | 132 Comments
Doug Reeves – Fake Navy SEAL Diver, Persian Gulf War Participant

The folks at Military Phony send us a case on Douglas Robert Reeves.  Reeves lives in Hialeah, Florida which is in Miami-Dade county.  Although Reeves is 64 years old at the time of this writing – mid-July 2021 – he will be 65 years old in a few weeks. Reeves is a real estate agent […]

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Really, Are We Really…. Leaving?

| May 11, 2021 | 11 Comments
Really, Are We Really…. Leaving?

Didn’t we say “We’re leaving” a while back, and yet, we were still there? Well, then, since we are officially leaving the Middle East behind, and taking our stuff along or trashing it so that it is unusable, is there any surprise in this news that the USNavy has seized a large shipment of weaponry […]

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Donald Lidy – Phony Navy SEAL

| March 29, 2021 | 68 Comments
Donald Lidy – Phony Navy SEAL

The good folks at Military Phony send us their work on this Donald Wayne Lidy fella.  Lidy lives in Speedway, Indiana and is 51 years old at the time of this writing – March 2021. As you can see from the above photo, Lidy is wearing one of those ball caps that no self-respecting SEAL […]

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“Buck” Thrailkill – Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Desert Storm

| December 8, 2020 | 225 Comments
“Buck” Thrailkill – Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Desert Storm

The folks at Military Phony send us their work on David Walkup Thrailkill, or better known as “Buck” as he likes to be called.  Buck comes to us from Fayetteville, North Carolina and is 57 years old at the time of this writing – December 2020. We actually had military records on ol’ Buck for […]

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Patrick Dowdee – POW, 2 Silver Stars & 3 Purple Hearts

| October 22, 2020 | 191 Comments
Patrick Dowdee – POW, 2 Silver Stars & 3 Purple Hearts

DISCLAIMER:  In the challenging age of COVID-19, the National Personnel Records Center is operating at a reduced capacity and is only entertaining emergencies and funerals at this time.  Although we filed for Mr. Dowdee’s military records, we don’t anticipate they will come until sometime in the winter or spring of 2021.  In the meantime, we […]

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