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Valor Friday
David forwarded this story of heroism in the skies over Europe during the Great War. I’d never heard of William Vail, and agree that this is a great tale to share. From Military.com; Gregory Vail grew up listening to his father’s war stories, watching him struggle with a prosthetic leg and agonizing phantom pain, hearing […]
Friday politics
Starting off, everyone remembers the notorious auto-pen, right? Republicans were outraged that the Biden White House supposedly used the auto-pen to affix Biden’s signature onto anything printed. I didn’t hear an accusation of having forged his Secret Decoder Ring application, but did hear everything but. Federal prosecutors in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office are dropping […]
Army vet Lou Holz passes
Lou Holz, one of the legendary coaches of the century – and an Army veteran – passed Wednesday at the age of 89. From what I can read, Holz got a Reserve commission after going through ROTC while at Kent State University. American Legion National Commander Dan K. Wiley issued the following statement today […]
Boots on the Ground
Kurdish YPG Sniper Kurdish boots, that is. We all are savvy enough to know American boots of the Special variety are already in-country. Doubtless they will soon be advising the Kurds and assisting with air support chores, for example. They won’t have to train them to fight. Why Kurds could be the biggest threat to […]
The GOP senator broke my hand!
The fella, who looks like a raging jackass, acted like a raging jackass. You see, while wearing his Marine blues to a Senate hearing, he interrupted to “protest” the Iran war. He yelled something about how the Jews run US foreign policy (I’m not joking), then got “escorted” out by Capitol Police. Like a petulant […]
The old F/A-18 vs. F-15 argument
Guess it depends on whether you favor the Navy-only F/A-18 or the Air Force’s F15 whether you think one or the other is “better”. They’re both lethal as hell, and even after decades of service, better than the vast majority of rivals. We’ve seen comments about the three F-15s taken down by the Kuwaitis a […]



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