A 19-year-old Texas woman is the first woman in the Battle of Afghanistan to earn the Silver Star and only the second woman since World War II to earn the nation’s third-highest medal for valor. The only other female to earn the Silver Star since World War II was Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester of Nashville [...]
AP CAIRO, Egypt – One al-Qaida’s top commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi was killed in Afghanistan, a Web site used by militant groups said Thursday. Al-Libi was a key link between the Taliban and al-Qaida. He led and al-Qaida training camp and appeared in a number of Internet videos. The U.S. says he was [...]
You have to appreciate the fact that Robin Williams goes and entertains the Troops on occasion. Maybe he’ll be the new Bob Hope? Who knows. Still, this video is pretty funny. While doing his routine for troops in Kuwait he has a new and different experience. The video below is of him doing a post [...]
Pfc. Alexander Cesario of Somerville, N.J., a forward observer with A Co, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, displays his father Adam’s American flag on a rooftop in Baghdad’s Suleikh neighborhood. As a Soldier in Vietnam, the elder Cesario flew the flag every day – including a three day period when [...]
A U.S. Army soldier watches the neighborhood from a rooftop as he provides security for his fellow soldiers in Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 25, 2007. Soldiers from the 3rd Armor Calvary Regiment are investigating a house destroyed by a bomb earlier that day. DoD photo by Spc. Kieran Cuddihy, U.S. Army.
The 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone interviewed several top actors on their political views. One of the interviewees was Meryl Streep who did the usual leftist rant about conservatives being ‘Nazis’. It never ceases to amaze me how they don’t seem to be able to make the logical connection in their brains that the [...]
Michael Yon’s Iraqi Iwo Jima shot, Muslims and Christians replacing the cross on top of St. John’s in Baghdad. Jules Crittenden calls the photo above ‘Iraq Iwo’. The well-known photo of the toppling of the statue of Saddam has been cited as THE photo from this battle in the Global War on Terrorism. Crittenden points [...]
I came so close to not reading this story. Its gotten to the point that reading about what people like this think of our military infuriates me so bad that I can almost literally feel my blood pressure going up as I read it. When I saw the title of the blog post over at [...]