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Google scares the Crap out of the Military and Me…

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 Posted in Military | No Comments »

Guys, I came across this website that has some great stuff on it http://www.informationdissemination.net/ and I encourage you to put this in your weekly roundup of important reads... One of the pieces I watched was a video with Michael Jones, Chief Technology Advocate ...

The Mental Health of Military Children by Emily Isenberger

Thursday, May 17th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 3 Comments »

The Mental Health of Military ChildrenChildren of active duty service members often face unique problems when a parent deploys, particularly when it comes to mental and emotional well-being. While mental health issues certainly do not affect all military children, recent ...

Bobby Thompson, Fake Navy Poser caught!!

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 Posted in Military | 3 Comments »

Guys, What a great day this turned out to be!!  I opened my news to see that “BobbyThompson_AdditionalInformation” a fake Navy LtCmdr who has ripped off lots of folks out there pretending to operate a sort of Navy Relief Nonprofit.   This ...

Today’s Entitlement Mentality…

Monday, April 30th, 2012 Posted in Military | 3 Comments »

  This whole topic started among some pilot buddies of mine who were discussing some of the “Naval Aviation Pipelines.." websites out there.  The entitlement mentality is alive and well in the military aviation community as well as the 1st CivDiv.   A ...

Fake Navy SEAL, You’ll love this guy

Saturday, April 21st, 2012 Posted in Military | 23 Comments »

http://   This is from Don Shipley, a real SEAL who busts these guys left and right.  I thought this was pretty funny.  Skinny dude, medals from the first Gulf war and says he's 33? Now I'm a Marine and Math 101 ...

Dr. Phil, please don’t paint us all with a broad brush

Friday, April 20th, 2012 Posted in Military | No Comments »

    The guys over at "You Served" have posted a story we need to read and watch.  While things happen, I'm afraid that concentrating on only the few bad examples, paints a pretty broad brush on all of our service members in ...

Vote for your favorite MilBlog

Thursday, April 19th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »

Guys, It's that time for you to vote for your favorite Mil blog.  I have made the list as a finalist this year which is a great honor and won this award a few years ago which was a blast too.  ...

WWII BUFFS AND WINGED ONES

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 3 Comments »

I love this stuff.  Like Vince Lewis and his lost tanks, David Cundall spent 15 years searching for hidden treasure in Burma...buried Spitfires from WWII.  Here is a great piece on this and then some wonderful facts about WWII that ...

“Gunny” Skyler Whalen at it again…

Sunday, April 15th, 2012 Posted in Military | 3 Comments »

Some people just can't help living in a fantasy world and one of those guys is a Tango named Skyler Whalen.  When this Power Point about him  SKYLER WHALEN1 was sent to me, I didn’t bother even running him on my blog only because ...

Nominate a Mil Blog…

Monday, April 9th, 2012 Posted in Military | No Comments »

  Hey Guys,   It's the time again to nominate a Mil Blog for recognition for this past year.  If you are into reading Military related Blogs, do me a favor, sign up with MilBlogging through one of the links below and show ...