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Valor Friday

| May 1, 2020 | 6 Comments
Valor Friday

Bruce McCandless II Military runs in the family. My dad was a Navy pilot, my son was Air Force, for example. For today’s Valor Friday Mason introduces us to the McCandless clan. He starts with the incredibly impressive story of Bruce McCandless II. Mason Something that comes up somewhat commonly in my research here are […]

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Valor Friday

| April 3, 2020 | 7 Comments
Valor Friday

Tony Stein For today’s Valor Friday, Mason relates the incredible heroism of Corporal Tony Stein, USMC, and the valor he displayed in the Pacific during WWII. Yes, those are Jump Wings. Mason Tony Stein was born and raised in the North Dayton neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio. The son of Austrian Jewish immigrants he was a […]

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Valor Friday

| March 27, 2020 | 6 Comments
Valor Friday

US Navy Enlisted Submarine Warfare Insignia, “Dolphins” Mason has chosen Henry Breault, Torpedoman Second Class USN, as our Valor Friday honoree. His service in small, post WW-1 submarines was dangerous enough, but his incredible valor in the face of disaster, endangering his own life for a shipmate, well. Get settled in because this one is […]

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PETA urges Marine Corps commandant to end ‘crude killing of animals’ during Cobra Gold

| March 4, 2020 | 74 Comments
PETA urges Marine Corps commandant to end ‘crude killing of animals’ during Cobra Gold

U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, drink the blood of a king cobra as part of jungle survival training during exercise Cobra Gold 2020 at Ban Chan Khrem, Chanthaburi, Thailand, March 2, 2020.HANNAH HALL/U.S. MARINE CORPS One of our ninjas sends us this foolishness: ninja Ed, Here is […]

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The Festival of John Moses Browning

| January 23, 2020 | 21 Comments
The Festival of John Moses Browning

Today we celebrate the birthday of John Moses Browning, and his Gospel. Sit you down and harken. 1 In the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was THE pistol, and it was good. And behold the Lord said, “Thou shalt not muck with my disciple John’s design for it is good and it workith. […]

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Valor Friday

| December 20, 2019 | 3 Comments
Valor Friday

Today’s Valor Friday salutes Lance Cpl. Donald J. Hogan, a young Marine serving in Afghanistan, and his selfless act of heroism. Donald Hogan learned about military service from his grandfather James Hogan Sr., a Marine gunnery sergeant who served in World War II, Vietnam and the Korean War, said Lt. Col. Terry M. Johnson, commanding […]

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Valor Friday

| December 13, 2019 | 24 Comments
Valor Friday

Poetrooper sends us today’s Valor Friday article, which details the heroic actions of Private Rodger Young, USA, on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Rodger Young, soldier By Ruth King In public school in the Bronx, after World War II, we gathered in the schoolyard, recited the “Pledge of Allegiance,” and made way to the auditorium before […]

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Valor Friday

| November 29, 2019 | 3 Comments
Valor Friday

Today’s Valor Friday goes to Gunners Mate Second Class Patrick O. Ford, and his actions as a Riverine Patrol Boat crewman during the Viet Nam conflict. Sadly, his Navy Cross was awarded posthumously. Ford was born in San Francisco, California, on May 2, 1942. At the age of 15, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where […]

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