I want to honor seven amazing American heroes. One is about to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. The other six showed bravery of another kind. FIRST These six Americans absolutely demonstrate courage, love of justice, and commitment to our...
War is hell, it has been said, but apparently we’re working hard to make it nice. A Marine general who court-martialed a sergeant for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and posing for pictures with them in Afghanistan will scale back...
At the 9 June 12 awards banquet in Lansing, MI, the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves (ESGR) recognized Michigan businesses that truly take care of their employees who are also in the military reserves or National Guard. The Pro Patria...
President Obama went to Afghanistan on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s capture and killing by US Navy Seals a year ago. There’s been lots of political analysis and talk about this raid and the President’s visit overseas on the anniversary...
We left Iraq long before we should have; Iraq has no history of democracy. With our armed forces in the country for another decade or so (like we did in Germany and Japan after WWII) we could turn over most of the fighting to the Iraqis, but we’d be...
This unbelievable situation must be chilling the dedication of every soldier in the field; our government refuses to deny reports by the Afghan government that NATO has agreed to have the soldiers who burned copies of the Quran face trial in an...
I try to stay away from issues the Main Stream Media is covering in depth—okay, in depth from the extreme left perspective. However, I can’t ignore the just announced enormous cut in the defense budget. There have been a few, well, untruths and...
Just read this in the Marine Corps Times: Audible farting is banned for some Marines downrange because it offends the Afghans. Now, there are things in the Afghan culture that don’t seem normal to Americans and it’s a challenge to spend seven months...
I haven’t always agreed with Defense Scty Gates, but I sure do agree with his warning shots to the world as he prepares to step down. NATO is, unfortunately, a farce. They were unable, with a week notice, to find enough aircraft to enforce the Lybia...
The intel that led to the taking-out of Osama was developed, at least in part, through prisoner interrogation. But Obama has changed everything in dealing with such prisoners. In Iraq, the Iraqis now hold all prisoners. In Afghanistan, I think there...