All kinds of good news coming from the War on Terror today. Michael Yon reports on Fox and Friends.
Category Archives: military
Chaos and Anarchy, p III
Guess what? Petraeus doesn’t want to bomb Iran, either.
U. S. Marine Gets Four Years in Prison–For Kissing
The United States Marine Corps has sentenced SSgt Tyrone L. Hadnot to four years in prison for “abusive sexual misconduct” with a 14 year old girl. According to Hadnot’s statement, he held the girl in place and kissed her–and the girl herself is pressing no charges.But this was apparently enough to sentence SSgt Hadnot to …
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FOX News says, "I am Iron Man"
The U. S. Army is in the testing phase of a new exoskeleton technology–probably inspired by movies like The Matrix Revolutions and Aliens. It looks really promising so far, but given the $26 million spent on R&D for the XM8–a project which was completely scrapped just prior to actual fielding–I’m not confident of seeing any …
OCS Update
I attended my final Phase 0 drill for OCS this weekend. I passed my record APFT, so I’m good to go. I just have to survive Phase I now! I did get fairly perturbed at one point during the drill, however. We were broken into teams of six to navigate the Leadership Development Course at …
Chaos and Anarchy, p. I
A user on MySpace recently accused the United States of (among other things) “spreading chaos and anarchy.” So, I’m collecting articles which demonstrate how foolish that is (I’ve been doing that anyway). So, it turns out that for the last four years, the Pentagon has been funding travel and expenses for conferences which may result …
"Moment of Truth in Iraq" Released
Buy Michael Yon’s new book at Barnes & Noble.
Stop-Loss
According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, the movie “Stop-loss” opened to the meager tune of 1.6 million yesterday. An unnamed studio source was cited as saying, “No one wants to see Iraq war movies. No matter what we put out there in terms of great cast or trailers, people were completely turned off. It’s a function …
High Body Count in Iraq?
In recent discussions on MySpace, I have several times been presented with the high civilian death toll in Iraq. First, I should note that the Lancet Study, which posted the oft-cited civilian deaths estimate of 98,000, was debunked in October 2004.In fact, in May of 2006–well before the Surge began–Iraq had a lower violent death …
Pro Troops Movie Finally Available!
See God and Country now Also, check out an honest Iraq documentary, Outside the Wire.
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