Hollywood’s latest crop of anti-American war flicks are tanking at the box office, which AFP blames on war weariness, but the comments beneath the piece at Breitbart.com tell a different story which most veterans will appreciate this Veterans Day weekend: Hollyweird finally, deservedly, is a victim of itself.
Via LGF
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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Hollyweird, Hollywood
According to the MSM all they do is crash. In fact, the new MV-22 Osprey Tiltrotor is part of the USMC’s surge in Iraq.
No time like the present to help Soldiers’ Angels help a wounded soldier, sailor, airman or Marine with a free voice-activated laptop to allow him/her to communicate with friends and family, prepare for a job, etc. You don’t have to give a lot. Every little bit helps.
Readers over at Simply Jews are debating what Isaelis should do about the continued rocket bombardment from Gaza. The usual and, I think, easy, high-mindedness is in evidence–Jews don’t stoop to the level of the enemy–as well as realism that nothing will change until the cooperating Gazan civilians, young and old, pay a price along with the masked gunmen of Hamas. I side with the realists, just as did the so-called Greatest Generation–at Hamburg, Dresden, Yokohama, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as Bret Stephens relates. High-mindedness is good, but the cost of keeping your conscience clear will be the certain deaths and cripplings of young soldiers who would no more lob rockets at a daycare center than strap on a bomb belt and detonate themselves in a crowded supermarket. Ethics in warfare have to be situational, as Stephens also seems to be saying, and the deciding factor must be the probable results. In Gaza, that would be an end to the rockets and, quite possibly, something approaching the German and Japanese surrender.
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Posted in Israel, The War, Troops
Tagged civilian bombing, Dresden, Gaza, Hamas, Hamburg, Simply Jews, Tokyo
This is the GPS-guided artillery round that’s putting the cannon cockers out of business. In Iraq and Afghanistan they’re already being handed rifles and turned into infantry. Because with Excalibur, you don’t need a barrage of shells to be sure you have eliminated a target. One is all that’s necessary.
On my second visit to Austin’s VA Health Clinic I was impressed by everything: the friendly people, the clean facilities, the new equipment. Got a flu shot from a tech with a no-pain technique. The doc I was assigned to wanted to run me through the normal blood work, but I pointed out I was scheduled for the full deal, including EKG and X-Rays, Dec. 11 in Temple for the Agent Orange Registry. Did he want to duplicate it? Fine with me. He didn’t. I especially liked the ambience that everyone’s on the same page. I saw why my late father-in-law, a Navy retiree, preferred VA hospitals to private ones. PTSD questions in the med exam surprised me. I think they’re more for new veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq than Vietnam after so many years. Nevertheless. Nightmares? Check. Fear of loud noises? Nope. Avoid situations reminding of combat? Nope. Feelings of detachment from others? That one surprised me. I thought it over and said I would have to answer yes. Wondering now what the Temple exam will uncover in December.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Infantry OCS, Iraq, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged Agent Orange Registry, PTSD, VA Health Clinic
This tale of an urban observation post in Iraq that suddenly turned deadly shows that Al Q can be pretty observant too.
Via American Power
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Tagged 82nd Airborne Division, American Spectator, Iraq, The Longest Morning
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