Category Archives: Troops

Phony hero

Posted on August 9, 2007 | Comments Off on Phony hero

There’s more than wind and nukes in Amarillo. There’s a prosecution of a phony war hero. Now I can understand wannabees falsely claiming valor medals, but not some guy who actually served. What a sad character.

Via Jack Army 

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Lies a soldier told

Posted on August 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Lies a soldier told

The New Republic’s "Baghdad Diarist" admits he erred (or, as Power Line says, the actual word is lied) about one of his three controversial reports. The others he’s apparently sticking to, and TNR claims (not very convincingly) to have anonymous sources corroborating them. Ah, those everpresent anonymous sources the MSM loves so much. So handy. His chain of command, meanwhile, says they can find no proof of the other two incidents, either. No word yet on Beauchamp’s fate. Ah, the wages of ambition.

UPDATE  The Army makes it official. They can find no evidence, etc., for the truth of any of it. TNR is sticking to its anonymous sources. Standoff, I guess you could say, except that Mr. Beauchamp is sans laptop and cellphone and, henceforth, is incommunicado. 

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Maj. Thomas G. Bostick, Jr., R.I.P.

Posted on August 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Maj. Thomas G. Bostick, Jr., R.I.P.

"Thomas Bostick was born in San Diego and moved to Llano after his father, Thomas G. Bostick Sr., ended his career in the Marines. Bostick joined the Army Reserve while at Llano High School, and after graduating in 1988, he made the Army his career."

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Why the AC goes out

Posted on July 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Why the AC goes out

Teflon Don has a short, succinct explanation for why there’s so much difficulty in keeping the electricity on, four years into the Iraq campaign, even for soldiers who patrol all the time, except for the afternoon hours when they try to sleep in the unalleviated heat.

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Dishonorable discharge?

Posted on July 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Dishonorable discharge?

Jack Kelly, a veteran himself, has got it right. The New Republic’s "Baghdad Diarist" has been outed and now his journalistic and military "careers" are on the line, as well they should be:

"Now that they’ve demonstrated their diarist is a real soldier, the New Republic’s editors feel vindicated. But the issue is not whether Pvt. [Scott Thomas] Beauchamp is a soldier. It’s whether he’s telling the truth or not. And his story stinks to high heaven."

As Kelly says, if he’s lying, then he and his liberal editors are exposed as the partisan fools they are. If he’s telling the truth, then he and everybody in his chain of command is headed for judicial punishment. Either way, Chuck, you’re toast.

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Riding with America’s team

Posted on July 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Riding with America’s team

Michael Totten brings his unique eye to reporting from the center of the surge:

"The 82nd Airborne Division is famous for being ready to roll within 24 hours of call up, so they were sent first. The surge started with these guys. Its progress here is therefore more measurable than it is anywhere else."

I especially like these lines from an earlier report, the sort thing you would never see in the MSM because it diminishes the favored narrative, not to mention the club:

"You’d think explosions and gunfire define Iraq if you look at this country from far away on the news. They do not. The media is a total distortion machine. Certain areas are still extremely violent, but the country as a whole is defined by heat, not war, at least in the summer."

Start here, then click on Home Page and start from the top. Then find the link to give him some money, so this stuff keeps coming.

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The damaged Iraq veteran

Posted on July 25, 2007 | Comments Off on The damaged Iraq veteran

Sound familiar? Try "the damaged Vietnam veteran." Hollywood is so predictably awful these days. The Iraq version will be the theme of the newest Hollywood anti-war movie, "Stop Loss," according to the Drudge Report. Well, really, what can you expect from the land of a thousand cokeheads and Scientologists? Patriotism? Belief in the country? Not hardly. Though, as Drudge points out, their predecessors had the courtesy to wait until World War II and the Vietnam war were over before slandering their veterans. Some courtesy. Cretins.

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