From the Marine Corps Times: New medal for drone pilots outranks Bronze Star By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Feb 13, 2013 17:47:27 EST The Pentagon is creating a new high-level military medal that will recognize drone pilots and, in a controversial twist, giving it added clout by placing it above some [...]
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Chuck Hagel and Iran
From The New York Times: Iran Said to Be Set to Hasten Uranium Enrichment By Alan Cowell | Published: January 31, 2013 LONDON — Iran has told the United Nations nuclear supervisory body that it plans to install more sophisticated equipment at its principal nuclear enrichment plant, a diplomat said on Thursday, enabling it to [...]
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Karen noted one of President Obama’s jobs programs: Obama Kills Off Another Coal Plant Along With 3900 Jobs. Your Editor had thought that President Obama’s jobs proposals were supposed to help create more jobs, and not kill existing ones, but Karen pointed out that the President was keeping a promise. William Teach noted Senator Dianne [...]
An insult to our servicemen
From The Washington Post: Obama considering John Kerry for job of defense secretary By Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller, Published: November 12 President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David [...]
….To The Shores of Tripoli …
The USS Constitution sails under it’s own power in Boston Harbor today for the first time since 1997 for a Celebration. The Old War Horse Still Wants to RUN The USS Constitution was built in 1797 and is still considered an Active Ship of the US Navy. In 1805 it went against Islamic Extremists known [...]
Low Down Stinking Skunk SOB
Obama to Soldiers: Pay Up Threatens to veto bill unless it hikes health care fees for service members The Obama administration on Friday threatened to veto a defense appropriations bill in part because it does not include higher health care fees for members of the military. “The Administration is disappointed that the Congress did not [...]
Happy Birthday, President Bush!
Today is the 88th birthday of former President George Herbert Walker Bush. He spent Sunday with his wife Barbara, and son, former President George W Bush, and his wife Laura, aboard the USS George H W Bush (CVN-77), for a promotion and re-enlistment service. The photo above, and several others, come from the Facebook page [...]
In Perry’s (Wagon Wheel’s) Back Yard In Time For Summer
A bit of History comes to Perry’s Back Yard, well, almost. Missouri gun barrel now rests at park on Delaware shore Fort Miles Historical Society has it transported from Norfolk to Cape Henlopen By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun 1:45 p.m. EDT, May 5, 2012 There’s a new exhibit waiting to greet summer visitors [...]
Navy F/A-18 crashes into apartment complex
Navy jet crashes in Virginia Beach, hitting apartment buildings By Kari Huus and James Eng, msnbc.com Emergency crews extinguished fires and were searching for victims at a cluster of apartments in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday after a Navy F/A-18 jet crashed into the complex, destroying two buildings and damaging several others, authorities and witnesses said. [...]
