Category Archives: Troops

White House Photo of The Day

Posted on October 29, 2009 | Comments Off on White House Photo of The Day

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Caption says the "reporters" are studying the inscriptions on the shovels for the ceremonial dirt-turning for a memorial tree for fallen American troops. You know, while Barry dithers about whether they need reinforcements or not. This is what the legacy media does these days instead of asking hard questions. Bush quietly met with the survivors of the fallen. Barry turns their deaths into a photo op and a tree-planting. Frankly I think he prefers them fallen. The fallen don’t talk back.

Via Mudville Gazette.

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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Obamalot, Obituaries, Scribbles, The War, Troops

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Father and son tackle Texas

Posted on October 27, 2009 | Comments Off on Father and son tackle Texas

A melodious little essay by a father mostly riding with his driving son across the west to Navy flight training at Pensacola, where my nephew also flew:

"Rested then, and once again on our way, a salt tang in the air, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama giving us back some sense of forward movement after a day hurling ourselves repeatedly against Texas."

Ah, yes, that repeated hurling against the broad width of the Lone Star and its several sharp points. One does that daily, just living here, even in the rolling green hills around home.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, The War, Troops

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Bring ’em home now

Posted on October 26, 2009 | Comments Off on Bring ’em home now

Our troops should come home now from Afghanistan rather than continue risking their lives for a doofus president who’d rather criticise Republicans and the rare unfriendly news outfit and play golf than send them reinforcements. Or, in fact, make any decision at all about their fate. What a bum. (President Pantywaist, as the Brit’s Daily Telegraph calls him). Our war on terrorism clearly is over. Better to face it than continue to squander our soldiers and Marines.

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Adios, UH-1

Posted on October 22, 2009 | Comments Off on Adios, UH-1

This seems to be it, as far as the American military is concerned, for the UH-1 Huey, the workhorse troop- and casualty-mover of the Vietnam war. Course the feeling of the nose-down takeoff, the wind roaring through the open side doors, and the distinctive sound of the rotor blades from the ground as one passes over will live on in memory, until the last veteran passes on. Few of them ever even knew it was, officially, called the Iroquois.

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Aurora

Posted on October 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Aurora

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Don’t recall where I got this, but it’s in honor of David Nelson, an old OCS classmate in MA, who awoke this morning to thirty-four degrees and heavy snow. As he says: "Good infantry weather!"

Via AlphaInventions.

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USS New York

Posted on October 14, 2009 | Comments Off on USS New York

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Not the new one, built from steel from the Twin Towers, but an older cruiser, scuttled in 1942 in Subic Bay, The Phillipines, to keep the conquering Imperial Japanese from capturing it.

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New Orleans Greys

Posted on October 13, 2009 | Comments Off on New Orleans Greys

This evening in 1835, the New Orleans Greys assembled for the first time in the grand coffee room of Banks Arcade in the French Quarter. They were one of the few volunteer units of the Texas Revolution which could claim battle honors at Bexar, the Alamo, San Patricio, Refugio, Coleto, Goliad, and San Jacinto.

One hundred seventy-three years later, the Mexican government still has their silk "God and Liberty" battle flag, captured at the Alamo, which it has steadfastly refused to relinquish despite requests from governors and presidents. The tattered remnants are believed to be hidden in the archives of the Museo Nacional de Historia at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City.

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