One Marine's View

Recent MOH HEROES

 

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Who Are America's Heroes?'

Airline Experience Begs Question, 'Who Are America's Heroes?'
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 18, 2009 - The challenge issued by a flight attendant during a recent commercial air flight seemed innocuous enough: "Name just one of the five Medal of Honor recipients from the current engagements in Afghanistan or Iraq, and get a free drink coupon."

RIVER CROSSING

  RIVER CROSSING - U.S. Army Spc. Chad Brown crosses a river while on a dismount patrol mission near Forward Operation Base Baylough in Zabul province, Afghanistan, March 17, 2009. Brown is a medic assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, US Army Europe. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Adam Mancini

Pelosi.UNBELIEVABLE!!!

UNBELIEVABLE!!! Here is a small point she is missing, they wouldn’t have to kick down doors and make arrests if they weren’t in the country illegally and committing crimes. Its simple, just like the thousands of other Americans that went before them, go through the proper procedures to come into America.

A Victory for Marine LtCol Chessani

ANN ARBOR, MI – Late this morning, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals sitting in Washington DC, released their unanimous decision upholding the dismissal of charges against Marine Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani on the grounds of apparent Unlawful Command Influence.  But the case may not be over yet.

"Author Unknown"

"Author Unknown"

Why I like The Marines

I like the fact that if you are a self-declared enemy of America, running
into a Marine outfit in combat is your worst nightmare... and that your
health record is either about to get a lot thicker, or be closed out
entirely.

Another Marines View

“I'm Tired" by Robert A. Hall
 
I'll be 63 soon.  Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18.  Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. 

GO TO WAR, WE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU

GO TO WAR, WE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU With the current economic times becoming even more apparent for the military and absurd at the same time as companies receive bonuses in these trying times, another double fisted blow is being shuffled in the deck.

Gates readies big cuts in weapons

WASHINGTON - As the Bush administration was drawing to a close, Robert M. Gates, whose two years as defense secretary had been devoted to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, felt compelled to warn his successor of a crisis closer to home.

Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment

The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.