Archive for February 10th, 2020

Foley’s Forgery Folly – The Official DD-214

| February 10, 2020 | 167 Comments
Foley’s Forgery Folly – The Official DD-214

Yesterday Leroy Foley was sticking to his claims of a Silver Star, Two Purple Hearts and other awards of valor.   Today we have his Official Military DD-214 directly from the National Personnel Records Center.  It seems the Army has no record of his Valor awards. This is Foley’s Forging Folly: It appears that Foley may […]

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Majority Favored Mass Extinction Event to Trump Re-Election

| February 10, 2020 | 50 Comments
Majority Favored Mass Extinction Event to Trump Re-Election

A poll of 400 New Hampshire Democrats was conducted. One of the questions that the respondents were asked gave them one of two options. President Trump wins re-election or a meteor hits causing all humans to die. The respondents overwhelmingly chose a meteor strike (62%) over President Trump’s winning a second term (38%). Out of […]

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The 1985 Sigonella Incident

| February 10, 2020 | 21 Comments
The 1985 Sigonella Incident

As is often the case,  we get deployed to places with little if any knowledge of where we are or why.   I was on the USS Austin in 1985 during a series of events that damn near took a very bad turn.  Too often, the Boiler Tech, Deck Ape, and the lowly rifleman have no […]

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GI Bill like Arrangement for all Americans?

| February 10, 2020 | 59 Comments
GI Bill like Arrangement for all Americans?

There are Democrats that are calling for student debt forgiveness, and for making university education free… At least among the public universities. Representative Ilhan Omar added her two cents to this argument. She supported the idea that the GI Bill concept could be applied to all Americans, not just to those who served. She agreed […]

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Puppies Assisting Wounded Service Members for Veterans Therapy Act – Funding Fraud

| February 10, 2020 | 44 Comments
Puppies Assisting Wounded Service Members for Veterans Therapy Act – Funding Fraud

  Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) seems to think it will be a good idea to throw $19,000,000.00  to paw at the critical shortage of puppies for damaged veterans crisis.  The Bill passed the house and is on the way to the Senate. H.R. 4305 would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a pilot […]

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Monday FGS

| February 10, 2020 | 14 Comments
Monday FGS

Ruger Blackhawk? Couple arrested after allegedly shooting at four people By Rachael Thomas BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A man and woman are facing charges after allegedly shooting at four people. The arrest reports from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office say the incident happened Thursday, Feb. 6 just before 10 p.m. in the […]

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