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AuthorDenny Gillem

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Throwing Israel under the Bus

This is amazing. Since WWII the US has had only two consistent, reliable friends, Britain and Israel. All we’ve done for the past few years is to ignore and dishonor them. And now, our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff used a visit in Britain to...

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Army Morale Declines in Survey

Soldiers cite failings of senior officers. Some worry service may be going ‘soft’ Only a quarter of the Army’s officers and enlisted soldiers believe the nation’s largest military branch is headed in the right direction...

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Nuclear War

On 6 Aug 1945, Hiroshima, Japan, was struck with the uranium bomb, Little Boy, from the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets of the US Army Air Force. The atom bomb killed an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear...

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Yielding to Terrorists

Anyone remember the Munich massacre that took place 40 years ago? It was during the 1972 Summer Olympics; Muslim terrorists from a group called Black September took hostage and eventually killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches (and a West German...

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Civilian Control of the Military

29 Jul 1932 – The Great Depression sent poverty-stricken Americans scrambling for any available source of income. Veterans of WWI certainly felt pinched, and cast about for ways to get cash, but, unlike Americans who hadn’t fought in the...

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Speech at the Cost of Freedom Tribute

Today I was asked to speak at the Cost of Freedom Tribute in Kentwood, MI. This was a 5-day event honoring those who died in defense of our freedoms. I was asked to speak from my heart. Here’s what I said; I meant every word. “I don’t...

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The Olympics and the US Army

Shades of the US Army. Horrors! The word got out that Ralph Lauren’s US Opening Ceremony outfits for the upcoming Olympics were, gasp, manufactured in China. Well, the company promised that the outfits for the 2014 Olympics would be American...

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America’s most dangerous Enemy

Yesterday, Friday the 13th, was a day that really got to me—in both a good and a bad way. I’m talking about the fact that our nation has an enemy that says they’re at war with us and wants all dead, yet we clearly have our collective heads in the...

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He lost the right of self defense in combat

Okay, it probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do, but it is something I might have done when I was a platoon leader or company commander in combat and had just lost some men. Army 1LT Michael Behenna decided to interrogate a naked detainee who he...

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If LOST, we lose

The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), if the US enters into it—and we’re actively working to ratify this UN treaty, hurts the US big time. It’ll be very, very expensive, money-wise; worst, it will take away some of our Constitutionally guaranteed rights...

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