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Archive for 'July,2009'

Ranger Up & ASP Support The 2nd Amendment

I love being a Soldier. I love being a Soldier because my [...]

Marine Corps OCS Embraces Blogging

MARINE CORPS BASE, QUANTICO, Va. (July 23, 2009) – Marine Corps Recruiting Command (MCRC) and Officer Candidate School (OCS) have joined forces to provide America with an inside look at the making of a Marine officer. [...]

Why Me?

As you can tell, I haven’t been writing a lot lately. To tell the truth, I haven’t really felt like it. But, I’ve also been busy with a training week. We worked through the past two [...]

PTSD Still Doesn’t Warrant Purple Heart

I’ve made my position on this pretty clear: I don’t think that the Purple Heart should be awarded for PTSD. Period. Not under certain circumstances, not in extreme cases, not ever. And it’s comments like this [...]

Inner Resistance or Don’t Forget The Families

I guess I could call this part III of my recovery. Earlier, I wrote about how I’ve been wrestling with inner turmoil for quite some time. I think I’ve largely been winning, but wrestling nonetheless (I [...]

UPDATE: Coffee Assistance

UPDATE: Thanks for everyone for helping me. I’ve met my goal now and you can stop sending in donations. I truly appreciate. Most of the coffee was already sent out and now the rest will go [...]

Bad News From the Doctor

I saw the doctor yesterday. The news is not good! My doctor is recommending vocational rehab. She says that I can’t go back to my job, WHEN my wrists heal. They are STILL not healed! This [...]

Specialized Interrogation Unit May Be Created

As you know, this hits home with me. I love the kick-off paragraph: “A Justice Department-led task force reviewing interrogation policy is leaning toward the creation of a small, specialized unit drawing personnel from intelligence, military [...]

U.S. Army Astronaut to share from space

Early Wednesday evening U.S. Army Astronaut Colonel Timothy Kopra began his travel to the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. For his first mission in space, COL Kopra will join Expedition 20 as a [...]

4th of July…On July 14th

I am so far behind on my emails, that I’m just finding this buried in there. ThanksUSA is a nonprofit that provides academic scholarships to the children and spouses of active-duty servicemen and women. ThanksUSA has [...]

Probing Military “Extremism”

According to the Associated Press, the Southern Poverty Law Center is asking Congress to look into extremism in the military. Sounds like a pretty good idea, right? We can’t have extremists running around getting trained at [...]

View From Under A Rock

The View From Under A Rock blog has a great post up from a Soldier’s perspective (hehe). It’s about the mass media coverage of Jacko and lack of such for people with far more honor. Here’s [...]

Arab Festival 2009

This is a video of David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi asking questions at Arabfest, Dearborn. The date is June 21st, 2009. There was a booth at the festival which had a banner titled “Islam: Got Questions? [...]

You Served Radio Show – 2 Jul 09

Hey, everyone. I hope you’ll join Troy and me for tonight’s You Served radio show. We have a great group of guests and military-related news items that will be covered tonight. Before I tell you about [...]