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DoD to encourage beards
Interesting to say the least…. Pentagon Study Finds Beards Directly Related To Combat Effectiveness Tampa, FL– Forget new gear, weapons, or sophisticated targeting systems. The newest tool coming to...
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Reporting or Opportunism?
Sometime in December 1943, Navy photographer Charles Kerlee took this photo of a scene on Tarawa. Tarawa, as you probably know, had just been captured in a bloody battle only a few weeks earlier....
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Occupy DC ending in a fizzle
DC’s Examiner carried the story last week: Occupy DC’s base camp in McPherson Square morphed over the past nine months from a few dozen protesters in sleeping bags to a virtual tent city. But over the...
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Uniform disenfranchisement: Military voting
Military voting crops up in the headlines every election cycle. But my perception is this time around we are hearing a bit more about it, and much earlier than normal. The prominent news story comes...
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Yes, Mr. President, now that you mention it…
Those pointy things on top of the rifles… carried by those men in front of you… those are … what do they call them???…. bayonets! Go figure.
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The faces and names may change, but the regiment lives on
From the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Park: The photo is one of a set taken at the rededication of the Irish Brigade Memorial at Fredericksburg, Virginia. The 69th New York...
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Seventy years ago: Victory at Guadalcanal
Seventy years ago today, Major General Alexander Patch signaled to Admiral William Halsey: “Complete defeat of Japanese forces on Guadalcanal effected 16.25 today . . . ‘Tokyo Express’ no longer has...
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Tanks! Tanks everywhere! American Wartime Museum Open House
Every August the Americans in Wartime Museum hosts their annual open house weekend: The Americans in Wartime Museum will hold its annual Open House from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, August...
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On Being a Veteran: SGT York
Originally posted this two years ago on my Civil War blog, save for a few updates as to the year marks, this still comes closest to capturing what I think being a veteran means: Today being Veterans...
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Loaded HEAT Classic – Lauren Bacall
XBradTC asked me for input on Loaded HEAT this week. Bottom line up front here. I’m married, so there’s some ROE that I operate under. After the risk analysis was complete, the recommended course of...
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