Category Archives: Troops

Tilt

Posted on November 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Tilt

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Rudder checks on the USS Reagan in the Pacific Ocean. You can see why they cleared the deck.

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Operation Redwing

Posted on October 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Operation Redwing

Military heroics are seldom reported in the media these days, MSM or otherwise. So it’s rare to find a story of battle heroism. Mainly because of people like this woman, a professional journalist who has to struggle to find excuses for her appalled friends when her son joins the Army to serve in Iraq. But here’s a heroic story, and a book, that deserve knowing, told by an East Texan who fought behind the lines in Afghanistan. The book is selling, and so a movie may be made, which worries him. He knows Hollywood knows (and cares) nothing about this war.

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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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SPC Vincent A. Madero, R.I.P.

Posted on October 28, 2007 | Comments Off on SPC Vincent A. Madero, R.I.P.

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"RANDOLPH AFB–…Word spread quickly across the base that a warrior was making his final flight home this morning…" Madero, 22, of the 1st Cav at Fort Hood, was received by his family. He left a wife and step son in Alaska.

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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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Applause in Atlanta

Posted on October 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Applause in Atlanta

Where those Marines should have landed instead of Oakland, California: The South!

Via Charlie Foxtrot Blog 

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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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