Tag Archives: Army

We used to run in boots

Posted on April 6, 2009 | Comments Off on We used to run in boots

But the Army did not, and does not, make commercials as good as this Marine one. As the H.E.B. checker-military brat joked one time when she saw my ARMY cap: "Ain’t Ready For Marines Yet?" Not on the recruiting score.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Infantry OCS, Texana, Troops

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Army to use Osprey

Posted on August 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Army to use Osprey

Now that all the other services are using the oft-maligned MV-22 Osprey, including the Marines as part of 2007’s surge in Iraq, the Army is taking it up with the aim of using it for special operations.

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The Marines do PR, but the Army, well…

Posted on June 20, 2008 | Comments Off on The Marines do PR, but the Army, well…

The Walter Reed scandal of early 2007 is a case study in the failure of information warfare thus far.

UPDATE:  But when Dhimmicrat Mad Jack Murtha and the MSM are out to get ’em, even the Marines falter. Until the prosecutions collapse.

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Posted in The War, Troops

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Author Stephen King: Moron

Posted on May 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Author Stephen King: Moron

The really amazing thing about King’s latest, unthinking putdown of the troops–"…if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq…"–isn’t that he is repeating another famous fool, John Kerry. It’s that he’s so dumb that he imagines you can a) get in the Army without being able to read, and b) that you could do the job the Army wants without being able to read. I’ve enjoyed some of King’s books. But none of them taught me anything important. It really does surprise me, however, that he could write any of them while being such a moron.

UPDATE: Air Force veteran takes him on, too. And Doug Ross @ Journal, too: "The Dead Zone known as Stephen King’s brain."

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Ours

Posted on January 19, 2008 | Comments Off on Ours

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.

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Ben Folds

Posted on August 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Ben Folds

Theoretically, I’m a little old for Ben Folds. Okay, a lot old, particularly for his repeated preference for cuss words. But his piano playing is fine and some of his lyrics are quite funny, or insightful, or both.

"Rocking the Suburbs," for instance:

"We’re rocking the suburbs
We part the shades and face facts
They got better looking Fescue
Right across the cul de sac"

Also "Army":

"cause my peers they criticize me
and my ex-wives all despise me
trying to put it all behind me
but my redneck past is nipping at my heels"

Most of his clips on YouTube have terrible audio. This one of his hit song "Brick," about a guy accompanying his girlfriend to an abortion, is admittedly a little weird. But the music and lyrics (despite the absence of the F-word) are a good introduction to him. 

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Veterans Day Weekend

Posted on November 10, 2006 | Comments Off on Veterans Day Weekend

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A day early, I guess, but I’m in the mood for it. This is a decal made up for my 1968 infantry OCS class by our one computer jockey, with representative places where we served in Vietnam, some more than once. We’ve had two reunions since 2003, and another one planned for next summer.

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