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Seeing some posts highlighting bad behavior at certain schools. Try to game another for what? Well bad behavior, get used to it. Some young adults have a tendency to get into trouble. Sometimes some make really bad decisions. The purpose of officer training is to enable the recently commissioned...

Mayor Bill de Blasio -Worse mayor of any city since Nero. He is not worried at all about the 15,000 vacant apartments in NYC or the tens of businesses that have closed for good. He ignores the surge of crime to 1970s levels. He does has to chime in on this. As a person who lost one quarter...

Had an interesting conversation with DS today we walked the dogs thru the old Fort Hancock Army Base at Sandy Hook. She is an ER Nurse in a New Jersey Hospital. In March she was working about 70 hours a week as we were first hit with the Coronavirus. Scores of people then were walking in to the...

At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous man in the world and stood alongside men like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American heroes. However, today Ulysses S. Grant is largely forgotten, his rightful legacy tarnished by a fog of myth, rumor and...

With all of this talk of the CIA I am wondering if anyone knew if they still have extensive training In the use of the Cone of Silence and are agents still issued the latest shoe phones?

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Well Coast Guard, I guess saving the lives of crews of stricken crab boats in Bering Sea Cyclones or idiot millionaires in the their sailboats in Nor'easters off Massachusetts is not enough. Now you have crew jump off your boats and rip open the hatches of captured Narco subs. Very impressive...

Semper fidelis https://www.stripes.com/r-v-burgin-author-and-marine-portrayed-in-hbo-s-the-pacific-dies-at-96-1.577165?fbclid=IwAR21htiOED3Cwc-sxLqXaGoQcpqzuWEWdmn6A-zFzlpBjNZarcnfwt1J_EA

I watched the news tonight and they discussed the recent deaths of the Flu this year. Made me think of one conversation I had with my grandmother about 25 years ago. She was 9 when it hit Western PA where she lived. She was the only one in her family of eight that did not get the flu. She was...

https://www.stripes.com/news/soldiers-like-new-pinks-and-greens-but-aren-t-happy-about-growing-wardrobe-1.493033

I did not see much in the media on this. My sister belongs to a Motorcycle Club. They met last week and had dinner after a ride. One member and good friend of my sister died on the way home. Brigadier General Linda McTague was an Air Force Pioneer being the first woman to command an ANG...

Hello all, Today is my son's last day in the Army. His decision and is very happy to come home. He had a applied for a few Federal Jobs at his 3.5 year active duty level and had decided to accept one. He reports to work tomorrow signs out and starts driving home. It has been a long 7 years with...

The PDSA says the award is "the highest award any animal in the world can achieve while serving in military conflict" and has given it out just 66 times since 1943. Thank You Lucca! http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-marines-dog-lucca-receives-pdsa-dickin-medal-after-n550786

My son told me he is hoping they decide to bring back the 1911. It is the best sidearm in his opinion. Speaking at the Future of War Conference 2016, Gen. Mark Milley said he has asked Congress to grant service chiefs the authority to bypass the Pentagon's multi-layered and complex acquisition...

Nice article from CNN. Turbo Prop is back. I still think we need to spend bulk of resources upgrading to the newest technology and planes. After all, we don't know who we will fight or oppose 15 years in the future. But for some fights we can go back in time. Maybe it is way to save some money...

Years ago we took my son for an overnight at Norwich. He went with a group of rooks and we were left to speak with parents of current students. My wife was told that their sons and daughters were magically transformed where they helped a great deal around the house and now always made their beds...

One of the mundane duties that my son has is too task soldiers to organize "events" for his company for holiday weekends. A lot soldiers don't have the money to go home for the long weekends especially with wives and children. The soldier is budgeting funds for things like bowling, movies etc so...

Too put the other thread aside on the Citadel, here is an overview of SMCs from a manly website. I chuckled reading the first few sentences. I think they(the site) think they are serious. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/02/01/military-academies/

Army chief Gen. Ray Odierno said during a Fort Carson visit he wants 490,000 soldiers in uniform to meet the service's worldwide commitments -- 40,000 more than current cost-cutting plans. The service's top general said he needs the extra troops because ongoing trouble in Iraq, tensions with...

Saw the movie over the weekend. A nice movie maybe geared for later primary and early high school. Was glad I saw it. I talked to my son about it. I never thought about the dogs getting PTSD but it made sense. He said the Army dogs were amazing. You always wanted one when you left the wire in...