It never gets this cold in Cuero, southeast of Austin, but these boys are headed to altitude in open cockpits. Taken at the former Cuero Army Air Field in 1942 when this was basic pilot training. I do not subscribe to the "greatest generation" baloney, which I think mainly scorns Korea and Vietnam veterans, but it’s for sure these guys had to deal with some fairly primitive technology. They were just lucky to have the almost complete backing of the whole country during their war.
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Posted in Library, Texana, Troops
Tagged basic pilot training, Cuero Army Airfield, Fairchild PT-19, greatest generation, open cockpit, PT-19, World War II
That’s a more loaded question than it may appear. Depends on how you define what happened there. Was it a massacre in the war on terror? Then they get Purple Hearts. Or was it a lone wacko’s criminal act? in which case, they don’t.
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Posted in Obamalot, The War, Troops
Tagged Fort Hood, Purple Hearts
If I see another headline about "the tragedy" at Fort Hood, I will vomit. It was a massacre, a terrorist attack, an example of "going Muslim" on Christians and Jews and other non-Muslims by a religious-fanatic murderer. Not some put-upon, discriminated-against, sad sack we must now feel sorry for. Piss on you, Maj. Hasan, and all your fellow-travelers.
The sorrow of the loved ones of the dead and maimed is real. But the old media manipulates us with their canned sorrow, no less than the politicians who can turn it on and off like a faucet. They couldn’t care less. Most of them never served and never will. Their buddy Barry, who also never served, will come to Fort Hood today to give his version of canned sorrow. He should, instead, lead by undermining the political correctness and bureaucratic cowardice and inertia that caused this travesty. But he won’t. It got him elected, after all.
UPDATE: President Pantywaist came, he saw, and he coddled. Hasan may have cracked from "stress."
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The generals don’t want it, but, then, they can’t do the basics, either:
"The Army is so worn out and so politically correct it could not spot something seriously amiss in a major who dressed like an Arab on base even though he was American-born and bred. His openly expressed opposition to American policy in the Middle East should have gotten him cashiered, but didn’t."
And while we’re at it, how about a new Congress?
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So the murderous major tried to contact Al Q, eh? It’s really not reassuring to think that our own military may be shot through with terrorist sympathizers like him, whose activities their commands and outside intelligence agencies know about, but for reasons of political correctness decline to deter. Now we know what the FBI’s standard "this is not terrorism" claim is really worth.
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Tagged al Queda, Anwar al Awlaki, Major Hasan
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