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Healthy, White, Hetero, Christian Males

To make an understatement, the Pentagon has now taken Political Correctness to the point that it’s much more important that our military leadership have the right mix of people by race, gender, religion, and health—than it is that the force be a...

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Women in Close Combat Units 4

This concludes a four-part series on the danger to our nation if we implement the new policy of allowing women in close-combat units. In previous weeks we discussed that women do make very good soldiers and can handle combat. However, they do have...

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War is Swell

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...

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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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The Green Military

The media just noticed that the military is doing things that count as “green.” While I certainly don’t favor trashing the planet, neither do I think that global warming is a valid concern. So what is the military up to? Our...

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Fort Knox foolishness

Last week when I heard about the foolishness at Fort Knox, I thought it was the drugs I was still on.  I knew nothing like this could happen in the US Army.  But it did.  According to the official response some unauthorized subordinate added the Tea...

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American Moslems – a threat or help?

It turns out after the shooting at Fort Hood that there are other American Muslems who claim to be moderate that are training our military–and some of these folks have the same attitudes and relationships as did the traitor-major at Fort Hood...

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Commander releived

The word is out that last week in Afghanistan an Army battalion commander and his command sergeant major were releived for “poor judgment that created a command climate inconsistent with the army values.” I really hope that this is a...

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The Pentagon’s report on Fort Hood

The Pentagon released their 86-page report on what happened at Fort Hood when the radical-Islamist Army major decided to shoot and kill as many Americans as he could. The report didn’t find room to mention that the major was a known member of...

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Political Correctness strikes again

A just released Defense Dept review of the Fort Hood shooting has found that, in my opinion, political correctness was the primary cause for the shooting. It seems that the army doctors who oversaw Major Hasan’s medical training repeatedly...

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