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Archive for 'January,2009'

Ensuring Lawful Interrogations

I need to reiterate something here because this is going to be a touchy subject. In accordance with AR 360-1, the opinions expressed on A Soldier’s Perspective are those of the individual writer and do not [...]

President Obama: Close Gitmo!

President Barack Obama today signed an Executive Order giving the detainees at Guantanamo Bay “the constitutional privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.” For those that aren’t too familiar with habeas corpus, it is the ability [...]

Simpson’s New Duds

The title is a double entendre. Does anyone else here remember Goldie Hawn’s movie, “Private Benjamin”? It was a pretty funny movie – for the time. After watching Jessica Simpson’s new movie “Private Valentine: Blonde and [...]

Cowards Cut & Run

I can’t really say anything extra for this video. Just, “amen, sister!” The video is from 2006. Jean Schmidt has a new fan. [...]

Structural Dissociation of the Personality

The leading theorists on the subject recognize that reactions to extreme stress can lead to one or more differing diagnosis, and that inherent in said traumatic reactions is structural dissociation of the personality. Where three types [...]

Obama Misses Heroes Ball; So What?

I know what’s going to come from me saying this. “You’re only saying this because you’re a Soldier and you have to stick up for your boss!” I know I’ll take some flack for this by [...]

NFL Makes Amends

The NFL has come around. I spent every free moment I had today and last night working the phones calling every number I could find for the NFL to find out why they were excluding our [...]

We Cannot Make it Through the Confines of Our Minds Without the Help of Others

I am a Gulf War I vet, I felt the same as you when I returned home from combat. For me it was the total sense of feeling alive and being apart of my squad that [...]

Incompetent/Unconstitutional Government Spending

You know of those billions (trillions?) of dollars that our government is investing wasting in America? The ones that are supposedly going to create over 3 million jobs according to the Obama administration? While our government [...]

Military Travel Tips

One of my duties is to review all travel requests and vouchers for military travel. I also perform a LOT of travel visiting my troops across the country. With that in mind, I decided to write [...]

Dissociation, Fructose, Insomnia & Escape

I was just having a moment of depersonalization and derealization, where I felt apart from self in away that I felt as if I was beginning to float above myself. No, I am not under the [...]

On My Way To Wanna Be

This is a great video tribute to the man I truly admire. Many of you may not agree with me and that’s your right to do so. However, I won’t allow negative comments on this post. [...]

A New Era of Responsibility – Congratulations President Obama

I’ve received a few questions relating to my silence since the inauguration today. People are wondering my thoughts on today’s events. Let me just start by saying that in my mind, President Obama has started out [...]

Breaking News: Bush Commutes Border Agent Sentences

This is perhaps one of the BEST things President Bush has done in the past eight years!! I’m so happy he did this. Ramos and Compean should never have been jailed! WASHINGTON—In his final acts of [...]

Obama To Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Barack Obama’s wizbang website, change.gov, gives the lay-reader quite a bit of insight into the “change” the President-elect is going to bring to this country. Some of it positive and some of it is not. I’d [...]