In New York City. In a new Adam Sandler movie that treats Israelis sympathetically. What a concept. With such immortal lines as this one: "We’ve been fighting for 2,000 years–it can’t be much longer." I’m not going to break down and cross the sticky floors of a local movie house, but I will rent the DVD.
Via Roger L. Simon
Instead of wasting energy or emotion on the latest NYTimes slander of America’s warriors, take a minute to see this new less-is-more Marines recruiting ad. Then one more minute to check out the wordier but still impressive Army one. Outstanding.
I confess I didn’t pay much attention to the NYTimes’ latest smear on combat veterans–implying without context (statistical or otherwise) that the sometimes dubious violent crimes of 121 returned Afghanistan and Iraq veterans are connected to their combat experiences. The Democrat house organ helped invent the slur on Vietnam combat veterans as "ticking time bombs," making us the forerunners of the actual Muslim suicide bomber. But Ralph Peters doesn’t overlook such things, even if they aren’t news. In "The New Lepers," he describes the latest smear as "an artful example of hate-speech disguised as a public service."
Via Instapundit
MORE: Beware the brutal veteran journalist, with actual incidents. Humor from Iowahawk. You might need to worry, because a lot of them are going to be laid off in the near future.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, The War, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged Afghanistan, combat veterans, Iraq, New York Times, Ralph Peters, The Long War
Amazing computer animation of the structural-failure accident that has forced the grounding of many F-15 Strike Eagles. You can argue about how many air-superiority fighters are needed nowadays, but apparently not about the longeron problem afflicting some of these 25-year-old aircraft.
MORE: The Air Force blames manufacturer McDonnell Douglas’s work in the 1970s.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged F-15, longeron, structrual failure
No, she’s not from Texas. But here’s a Miss America candidate we can all get behind, a real Utah National Guard medic and Afghanistan veteran. Outlaw 13 at Guidons, Guidons, Guidons! shows how.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Scribbles, The War, Troops
Tagged Miss Utah, Sgt Jill Stevens, Utah National Guard
The surge is obviously working. You can tell because Iraq is no longer front page news very often, and most of the pols have stopped yammering about pulling out. But good Americans are still dying there, including this 37-year-old, Big Red One Iraqi army advisor and milblogger from Colorado Springs. Oddly enough, he left behind his own final post and this sayonara:
"I’m dead, but if you’re reading this, you’re not, so take a moment to enjoy that happy fact."
Via Instapundit
MORE: A friend who served with Olmsted at Fort Carson, CO, remembers him in this touching tribute. And word is finally trickling out about how AJO died: a sniper got him while he was trying to talk some insurgents into surrendering.
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Tagged Major Andrew Olmsted
I’ve posted before about this effort to help our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan call home. But today, receiving a relative’s Xmas gift for Mr. B in an Amazon box, I found a soft-plastic mailer for the program, postage-paid, inside. Pretty cool. Makes it very painless. Indeed, Mr. B. and I rooted out an old cell phone from the garage and dropped it into the mailer. We’ll take it to a mailbox later today to mail it. It’s another good reason to shop Amazon when you can.
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