Category Archives: Iraq

IED finder

Posted on October 28, 2007 | Comments Off on IED finder

Teflon Don on the skill hardly anybody knew was pursued in Iraq, until now, if they read him and the WaPo. The Buffalo finds and blows them, safely as can be done.

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Worried O man

Posted on October 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Worried O man

The MSM may not be willing to admit the turnaround in Iraq, but Osama–or his audio double in his latest recording–is:

"Al Qaeda is under a lot of pressure of late. In addition to defeat in Iraq, the organization is being battered in North Africa, South East Asia, Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Bin Laden has not got any good news to talk about…"

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Smartass with a press pass

Posted on October 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Smartass with a press pass

Bobby Caina Calvan is famous now, at least in the blogosphere, for being a jerk in a war zone. I read his post, saved here after his California newspaper took it down. I sympathized with him, to an extent, though I reserved most of it for the soldier he hassled. And I have to agree that Bobby’s too arrogant for his own, or anyone else’s good. Replace this smartass boy with a man, ASAP.

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Reprieve

Posted on October 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Reprieve

Scott Beauchamp, the Hemingway-wannabee soldier who was caught slandering his comrades in the pages of The New Republic, is making up for it, according to independent reporter Michael Yon:

"…to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and he is serving tonight in a dangerous part of Baghdad. He might well be seriously injured or killed here, and he knows it. He could have quit, but he did not. He faced his peers. I can only imagine the cold shoulders, and worse, he must have gotten. He could have left the unit, but (his battalion commander) LTC Glaze told me that Beauchamp wanted to stay and make it right. Whatever price he has to pay, he is paying it."

Good for him. The whole report, along with good photographs, though none of SB, is worth the read.

Via Patterico

UPDATE: Peggy Noonan: TNR’s "report" was a generational thing. Raised on the movies, ‘sted of real life. 

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Military aviation’s future

Posted on October 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Military aviation’s future

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The Global Hawk UAV recently returned from Iraq under its own power. Not transported via C5 or C17. Controlled by a pilot, via satellite, from Edwards AFB, CA, where the robot is shown in its hanger.

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Dizzied by the spin

Posted on October 22, 2007 | Comments Off on Dizzied by the spin

"The situation in Iraq has drastically changed, but the inertia of bad news leaves many convinced that the mission has failed beyond recovery, that all Iraqis are engaged in sectarian violence, or are waiting for us to leave so they can crush their neighbors." –Independent journalist Michael Yon’s latest.

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1LT Thomas Michael Martin, R.I.P.

Posted on October 19, 2007 | Comments Off on 1LT Thomas Michael Martin, R.I.P.

His father and mother (who live in San Antonio), and his fiance (re-deploying to Iraq as a medevac pilot)–are all Army. He left behind a web site, and a lot of friends.

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