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Archive for 'September,2009'

New Marine Corps Ad Campaign

         New Multimedia Campaign Inspires America’s Youth to Earn the Title of ‘Marine’   QUANTICO, Va. (September 18, 2009) – The United States Marine Corps is launching a new multimedia campaign, America’s Few, [...]

Sue, I’m Fine

UPDATE: Okay, it looks like there’s a bigger problem with my email. Turns out NO ONE is getting my emails for the past two weeks. So that everyone know, I’m alive. I haven’t offed myself yet. [...]

President Awards Medal of Honor Posthumously to SFC Jared Monti

President Obama presented the Congressional Medal of Honor today to the family of SFC Jared Monti. Of all the privileges serving as President, there’s no greater honor than serving as Commander-in-Chief of the finest military that [...]

Military Families Defrauded

This is about as sick as sick gets. Knottie, a Gold Star Mother, put this up on her blog: It was a nasty evil thing to do back during the Vietnam war. People would call families [...]

Chew More, Do More

The makers of Jolt Gum are awesome. They’ve created gum with images of our military from which some proceeds go to troop charities. They’ve reduced all shipping costs to APO/FPO address to just $.01. They send [...]

Give Our Generals What They Need

(Washington, DC) – Today, Vets For Freedom—the largest Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans organization in America—released an online petition urging President Obama to follow the request of the commanders on the ground in Afghanistan and allocate [...]

Marine To Travel To Antarctica

Well, he says former Marine, but you know. John Phillips is a former Marine who’s traveled the world during the his military service. He’s since left active duty, but now he wants to go to Antarctica [...]

ASP Named Top Milblog

The Daily Reviewer has released it’s list of Top 100 Blogs and A Soldier’s Perspective has been included as one of the top military blogs, along with You Served , Blackfive, Mudville Gazette, my good friend, [...]

New GI Bill Overview

There’s a lot of confusion and frustration associated with the new GI Bill. I’ve written about some of them and Troy and I have covered it on our radio show. I want to take some time [...]

President Announces National Employer Support Of The Guard And Reserve Week

President Obama released the following proclamation today announcing National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week: Citizens willing to serve in uniform when duty calls have helped protect our freedom and security since our Nation’s [...]

When Your Enemy Is Your Best Friend

John Kerry said that our troops were “terrorizing women and children in the night.” John Murtha called our troops “cold-blooded murderers.” Then, there are groups like Code Pink, Veterans For Peace, and others that accuse troops [...]

The Loss of a Devil Dog

I want to personally thank everyone that took the time to send Josh a card while he was fighting for his life in the hospital. Many of you sent letters, ecards, and some called personally. Unfortunately, [...]

Tea Party Post Show

I’ve been reading all the news the day after the massive Tea Party in D.C. with ferver. I wanted to see what would be written the day after since yesterday all the “reports” coming out of [...]

9/12 Rally Exceeds Expectations

It was Michelle Obama who said it best when she said, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country…because I think people are hungry for change.” And after just eight [...]

Local Media Covers PTSD and Suicide Prevention

I was interviewed after a briefing with Major General Mark Graham about PTSD, depression, and suicide prevention. I’ll have video up of his inspirational speech later, but for now, here’s the story the local media ran. [...]