Chuck Hagel’s Very Bad Day
Hagel delivers shaky performance – The Hill Hagel Pleads Ignorance: “I have a hard enough time understanding American politics, I certainly don’t understand Iranian politics.” – Ace of Spades HQ Chuck...
View ArticleHOOAH! Army Training Update
At 1440 hours today, telephonic communication was received from Recruit McCain at the military installion where he is being trained as a fearless warrior to destroy America’s enemies. HOOAH! Concern...
View ArticleRon Paul Supporters Slam Rand After Republicans Block Hagel Nomination
Allahpundit points out that Chuck Hagel was one vote away from passing a cloture vote to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense: But wait — what about Rand Paul? If ever there was a SecDef nominee whom...
View ArticleTehran Supports Chuck Hagel, and Nobody Really Seems to Care
This ought to be shocking: Hooshang Amirahmadi, who led Rutgers’ Center for Middle Eastern Studies when Hagel came to campus, is the founder and president of the American-Iranian Council. He arranged...
View ArticleArmy Update: Good News, Bad News
Today, I received a letter from Recruit McCain, who reports that he tied for first in his platoon in marksmanship scores and, in a surprise phone call, he also reported that he got to throw a live hand...
View Article‘Green on Blue’: Two U.S. Special Forces Troops Killed in Afghanistan Attack
NBC News reports from Kabul: Two U.S. service members were killed and at least eight others were injured Monday in a possible insider attack at a special forces site in Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan...
View ArticleTerrorists Fear Him
Cowards who strike against the innocent to advance ancient hatreds and fanatical agendas have one certain enemy in the world, who will courageously seek them out and destroy the evil doers. Above all,...
View ArticleArmy Plans to Cut Eight Brigades by 2017
COLUMBUS, Georgia At graduation ceremonies for my son’s infantry training unit this morning, the speaker was a retired general who sounded dire warnings about the threats facing the United States. The...
View ArticleSyria: Another Casualty of ‘Hope’
Reading a long New York Times article about the prevalence of Islamic extremism among Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime in a two-year civil war, I was struck by this paragraph: The religious...
View ArticleMy Wife Is a Soldier’s Mom
Army son will be up at 4 a.m. Number 15 in his “chalk” at Airborne school — first man out of his plane in Monday’s first jump. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 13, 2013 Today was Mother’s Day, and...
View ArticleOne More Jump …
Parents understandably proud of their college graduates. Do they know what I’ll feel if my Army son graduates from Airborne school Friday? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 15, 2013 Well, I had...
View ArticleHe Gets His Wings Tonight!
The back of this T-shirt asks, ‘What do you do?’ So the final jump of Airborne school was supposed to happen Thursday night and graduation was supposed to be noon Friday. But the C-130 was grounded by...
View Article‘Take That Hill’
My 14-year-old son stayed home from school today sick, and put the TV on the Military Channel where, among other shows, we watched a documentary about the Battle of Hill 875 in Vietnam. To call this a...
View ArticleAdrian Lamo Is a Hero
Anybody who is hated by Anonymous must be doing something right: Lamo previously lived in Sacramento but went into hiding for fear of reprisals for turning in the 25-year-old soldier . . . (It is an...
View Article#DDayVA Stand Up for Veterans Today!
Today is D-Day. Stand up with @concernedvets for our veterans who served. millionvetbacklog.com/#petition #DDayVA — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 6, 2013 Obama promised to fix the backlog at...
View ArticleHoly Freaking Crap! How Did NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Get Security Clearance?
My son enlisted in Army under same 18X program as #Snowden. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! viralread.com/2013/06/10/her… — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 10, 2013 The phrase “whistleblower” would imply...
View ArticleLet’s Debate Fourth Amendment Rights, and Also Send Snowden to Leavenworth
Glenn Greenwald’s new man-crush, Edward Snowden theothermccain.com/2013/06/10/hol… I am more afraid of the federal Department of Education than I am of the #NSA. Seriously. @angelatc @justinamash —...
View ArticleEdward Snowden’s Dubious Heroism
Lindsay Mills is a dancer, acrobat and blogger: “My world has opened and closed all at once. Leaving me lost at sea without a compass. . . . But at the moment all I can feel is alone. . . . As I type...
View ArticleBen Smith Wants You to Ignore This
As soon as Edward Snowden came forward as the “face” of the NSA leaks, the question immediately suggested itself: “Hero or Traitor?” Revelations about the NSA surveillance program had made worldwide...
View ArticleBradley Manning Verdict: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! …
Exactly how many counts this unspeakable disgrace to the uniform of the U.S. Army was convicted of today, it’s hard to tell from the Politico story, but Allahpundit says it’s at least 15 counts, enough...
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