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So that they are never forgotten

Sunday, May 27th, 2012 Posted in Military, The SandGram v1.0 | 4 Comments »

I have a great friend, a former Sgt in the Marine Corps named Marcus Penn, who asked if I could write something about Memorial Day for him over at YouServed. Frankly, I am honored to be able to contribute a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

This week’s Poser Roundups…

Friday, April 6th, 2012 Posted in Military, The SandGram v1.0 | 26 Comments »

      You guys know my disdain for Posers and there are a ton of them out there recently. The first is this incredibly fat “Master Gunnery Sgt."  Who has every award known to man plus he’s a Navy SEAL.  I’m thinking more ...

US Soldier kills 10 Afghans

Sunday, March 11th, 2012 Posted in Military | 2 Comments »

This has just come across the news wire, a US Soldier has allegedly shot and killed 10 Afghans outside of his base in Kandahar.  If this is true, it will lead to more “Blue on Blue” attacks from Afghan Police ...