THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

One of the reasons the Obamaloots are giving for a possible presidential veto of a new defense appropriations bill is that it awards Purple Hearts signifying woundings in action to the military victims of two Jihadi killings at Fort Hood and Little Rock, Arkansas in 2009. “On June 1, 2009, Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, [...]

Criticizing Obamaloot for the passing remark that Americans are “fighting on my behalf” seems misguided to me. Totally unnecessary, considering all the non-controversial criticizing that could be launched his way. As far as I can see, the American military has been “fighting on [the president's] behalf” since the dawn of the Republic whose Constitution made [...]

Michael Yon correctly lays blame for the latest Afghanistan photo scandal on the soldier(s) who took the snapshots and made sure the Los Angeles Times got hold of them. Hard to fault that logic. But Yon absolves the media in the fiasco, which is ridiculous. The LATimes didn’t have to use the photos. They knew [...]

Recognize her? Perhaps not. This is the photo you might remember better. Not long after placing seventh in an American modeling contest, the young Modern Orthodox Esther Petrak, a native of Jerusalem, joined the IDF to serve and defend Israel as an instructor in the Merkeva (Chariot) tanks.

Whoa, now there’s a concept. Not that Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales is getting access to it, at least not in the biased news media, or from our frequently-lying Muslim “ally” Hamid Karzai, the president of Afcrapistan. I am impressed that Obozo is not piling on. Although it’s probably because he knows he’s about two [...]

The (apparently) world’s first combat submarine, which few alive today have ever seen. Now you can be one of them. You’d never have gotten me in that thing. I’m the descendant of  infantrymen. But I can’t help but admire the sailors who volunteered for the H.L. Hunley—and perished.

The rearing black cat on the yellow circle on the nose of these Hueys reminds me they were our resupply and courier service in Viet Nam in 1969. This is one of their bases somewhere near Da Nang. Note the M-60 machinegun tilted downward on the left side of the bird on the right. Nobody [...]

“Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel George D. Wolfe Jr., of Ligonier, [PA], passed away at his home Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. He was born Jan. 14, 1934, in Gettysburg, to the late Rev. George D. Wolfe and Vernie Warner Wolfe…. “George was a husband, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a brother and a friend, but [...]

Incredibly, more than three months after at least one American combat soldier died unnecessarily and two months after the issue was first raised on the Net, wounded American troops in Afghanistan still are waiting longer than necessary for Medevac helicopters to arrive. Because the Medevacs wear red crosses and, therefore, under Army policy cannot carry defensive [...]

Never occurred to me at the time (1969-70) that the Army would replace these birds with bigger and faster ones. The Huey, or UH-1B, being small, was harder to hit. But, compared to a Blackhawk, it was pokey slow.