Archive for July, 2019
More News from Venezuela
This almost seems like wishful thinking on Venezuela’s part: the US military will ‘get easily into Venezuela, but will have a hard time getting out’. From the article: Diosdado Cabello, the Venezuelan socialist party vice president, on Saturday told leftist politicians and supporters gathered at the Sao Paulo Forum that U.S. Marines will “likely” enter […]
TSA: Man checked missile launcher in luggage at BWI
A service member returning from Kuwait said he wanted to keep the weapon as a souvenir. (TSA) Well, not really a missile launcher, but an inert part of one. Still, this fellow isn’t the brightest bulb in the chandelier for packing such a thing. From the article: Federal officials say they’ve found a missile launcher […]
Tuesday Feel Good Stories
Read the box. Suspect dead after being shot during attempted home invasion Author: WBIR Staff MCMINN COUNTY, Tenn. — An Athens man is dead after victims claim he was attempting to invade a residence with several people inside and fired a shot at another person, according to the McMinn County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Joe Guy […]
Army Gen. Stephen Townsend takes over command of AFRICOM
Gen. Stephen Townsend is pictured in Wyvern, Mosul, Iraq. (Photo/ETHAN HUTCHINSON/U.S. ARMY handout) Poetrooper sends us a couple articles on General Townsend as he takes the helm at AFRICOM, where he’ll oversee U.S. military relations with African nations and coordinate security missions with regional partners. “To say that we ask a lot of this team […]
Iran vs. The World Part III(a) Sequence Code ZipZipZipZed
HMS Duncan in the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route in the Gulf (Ministry of Defense photo) In the continuing story of Iran vs. The World, a second British Navy warship has arrived in the Persian Gulf to accompany British shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. And of course, Iran protests this as a […]
Pentagon Funds Okayed for the Border Wall
The Border Wall Business is slowly coming to a conclusion of sorts. The Supreme Court has said that Pres. Trump can use defense funding to complete it. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/07/28/supreme-court-trump-can-use-pentagon-funds-for-border-wall/ I will not say “That settles that,” because as we all know, the howling, weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth on the left side of the fence […]
Back to Business
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Marine drill instructor Charles “Chuck” Taliano Jr. appeared in the Marine Corps’ iconic 1970 recruiting poster. The new Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Troy Black, is in town. And you still do not get a rose garden. Nor can you run around with your hands in your pockets. From the article: Black told Marine Corps […]
Funerals for AMM1c John O. Morris and CPL Ralph L. Bennett (World War II); and MSG Carl H. Lindquist (Korea)
Last November, DPAA announced that it had accounted for AMM1c John O. Morris, US Navy. AMM1c Morris was lost on Tarawa on 16 December 1943. AMM1c Morris will be buried later this week – on Thursday, 1 August 2019 – in Seattle, Washington. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for […]
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