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Vision Strike Wear Creates Unit T-Shirts

Whether 10, 20 or hundreds of t-shirts and apparel, the design team at Vision-Strike-Wear.Com works cohesively with military units all over the world creating visionary designs for units engaged in the sands of Iraq, Afghanistan or [...]

Is the Army Eating Its Own?

UPDATE: When I initially wrote this post late at night, I transposed the link code to the URL prior to the quotes listed below under the SFC Stewart story. Even though it was obvious with the [...]

Scholarship Photo Contest

As most of ya know, I took a terrible fall 2 years ago and shattered both of my wrists. Because the injury was so bad, the doctors say my trucking career is over. (I can’t pull [...]

FBI Releases 2010 Crime Stats

The FBI has released its preliminary crime stats for the first half of 2010. As you know, 2010 saw an increase in the number of concealed carry permit holders, guns sold, and citizens armed. The United [...]

New Online Military Scammers

I am inundated daily with emails and comments from people around the world thinking they are being scammed online by people professing to be Soldiers or Marines in a combat zone. I want to reiterate a [...]

Merry Christmas to All! (Issue #481)

I watched a classic film at the Beltonian Theater (www.BeltonianTheater.com) last week. I’m also looking forward to seeing others before Christmas and again before New Years while holidays last. The thing that struck me this time [...]

A Soldier Toy Story

This was sent to me through the You Served Radio channel and wanted to share it here. [...]

DADT Repeal

As everyone knows, the bill to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law that bars gays from serving openly in the military passed the Senate today. Naturally, President Obama will sign it into law and most [...]

Don’t Mess With Our Vietnam Brothers

I couldn’t help but laugh my tailfeathers off! You gotta watch this video. This 67-year Vietnam Veteran gets harassed by a punk and gets his ass handed to him. Bravo, my brother! Except for end, this [...]

T’was a Night in December

Servicemembers stationed from Antarctica to Afghanistan lent their talents and time to craft, “Twas a Night in December,” based on the popular holiday story, but rewritten with a military twist. More than 40 commands around the [...]

Convicted Scammer Now Using Military to Target Women

{Shoutout to the Facebook Group “Get the Scammer/@$$holes Online” for keying me into this guy.} On April 16, 1988, Link Joe McCormick enlisted into the Army National Guard in St. Paul, MN, as a member of [...]

Increasing Business Revenues Helps Fix Budget Gap, Reduce National Debt (Issue #480)

No duh—more business income translates into more in tax monies collected, and so theoretically, more with which to meet budget shortfalls and pay down our astronomical national debt. Almost exclusively, however, discussion about deficits and debt [...]

TSA Rolls Out Spin Blog

So, I can’t remember exactly how I found them, but I started following the TSA on Twitter. I guess when your image is shot, you do what anyone would do – start a blog and Twitter [...]

Automated Innovation Revolution Key to Rebuilding, Advancing U.S. Economy (Issue #479)

To rebuild America’s competitiveness, it was obvious from the vantage point of the Socrates intelligence project, established by Michael C. Sekora during Reagan’s second term that America had to re-introduce technology-based planning as the foundation for [...]

Some Soldiers Don’t Deserve Your Kindness

“Ooooh, that’s pretty harsh, CJ.” Yes it is but I can’t tell you how distressing it is to get emails and comments from folks that tell me they’ve been sending letters and care packages only to [...]