JOHN KERRY FOR SECDEF? HELL NO!
Sunday, November 18th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »GUEST OPINION by Don Bendell JOHN KERRY FOR SECDEF? HELL NO! On February 2, 2011, I fell off a ladder landing on a steel fence in below-zero weather, fracturing my back, a rib, and got a minor concussion as well as a ...
Veteran’s Day with an 86 year old…
Monday, November 12th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »Veteran’s Day… This weekend coincides with the 237th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps, so it’s natural to lump Marines into your Veterans Day speeches, especially when you are a Marine and that’s 95% of your complement of friends. There is ...
Happy Birthday Marines…
Saturday, November 10th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 4 Comments »"Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings, I have ever witnessed. They treat their service as if it were some kind of cult, plastering their emblem on almost everything they own, making themselves up to look like ...
Thoughts on the Election and the impact on our mission
Sunday, November 4th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 5 Comments »It’s funny, I had a discussion the other day with a man who owns a nearby vacuum store. See our vacuum we bought from him broke and I went to get it repaired. Dressed in my uniform that recruiters wear ...
Advice for that Marine getting out…Stay in the reserves!
Saturday, October 13th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »Everyone in the service comes to that point where you have said “has it stopped being fun?” should I pull chocks and go into the first CivDiv. For me it was at the ten year mark in my career while ...
A true Marine Leader…”Otis”
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »LtCol Chris "Otis" Raible and Sgt Brad Atwell, died last week in the attacks at Camp Bastion. There was intel/rumor floating around about his (Otis's) last actions and I published this before there was solid word on his final hours ...
The Bill of Rights…225 years
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 1 Comment »Monday, 17 September, was the 225th anniversary of the signing of our Constitution. You know the yellowed piece of paper enshrined over at National Archives in Washington DC that was featured in “National Treasure” (see for an old guy, I’m ...
9-11
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »Another year passes marking the attacks against the United States by Radical Muslims. How fitting is it that last year, the mastermind of those attacks was cut down by a single 5.56 bullet to his face by a Navy SEAL ...
Veteran’s Day 5K race/walk in Western New York
Friday, September 7th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 1 Comment »The WNY Chapter of AUSA has partnered with Buffalo Paradigm Co. to help host the first ever Veteran's Day 5K race/walk in Western New York. Go to http://www.wnyausa.org/VetsDay5K to check out the page, get more info and register. All the proceeds raised ...
NO EASY DAY: The killing of Bin Laden
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 Posted in Military, The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »NO EASY DAY I should say “Not enough book” would be a better title… and I only say that because this was a page burner book, well written, a solid story and like he says, a first hand account of the ...
