Stop the Deportation of Immigrant Military Veterans

Servicemembers sign up to put their lives on the line in defense of the United States of America. Veterans deserve respect and support for their willingness to take risks on behalf of the country.

Beat the Pentagon!

ShareThis video from Brave New Films:
Rethink Afghanistan [click here] is related to the article I posted mentioning “Operation Moshtarak”, called Marja, Afghanistan: Pentagon Propaganda taken to new heights!
Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation team remind us that the military-industrial complex has a well-oiled message machine. Just [...]

Local veterans remember hell in the Pacific during WWII 

What happened there — and on Guadalcanal and Peleliu and Okinawa — is the subject of The Pacific, a 10-part miniseries that begins on March 14 at 9 on HBO. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who also collaborated on the WWII epics Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, the miniseries dramatizes the Pacific campaign through the real-life stories of three Marines.

Veterans Locked Out, This Land Is Not Your Land

Veterans gathering to celebrate Veterans Appreciation Day were met with a chain and a padlock.

Home Fires: Narrative and Memory at War

I’ve been to war. For many, the effects are genuine, sure, and we should help them. I do not want to dismiss anyone’s suffering. I do, however, want to acknowledge the seductive power of the red carpet of victimhood, and life bending to resemble a well-crafted story.

From the National Gulf War Resource Center: The Gulf War Reunion

The Gulf war reunion
This one for all veterans that has served in the Gulf. From Desert Storm OIF and OEF.
We all served in a place where there has been a lot of toxins around us.

We have lined up many things for you to do around the area. Six flags is close by.
The WRIISC will be there to teach us how to get your doctor to better under stand TBI’s and GWI.
They will also let you know haw to get to one of the tree clinics for help.

GORDON DUFF: From an “Old Fart”, Advice for our Soldiers in Afghanistan

ShareTHIS IS “BETWEEN US”
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I just returned from the region after a REMF “combat tour” of my own, 5 star hotels, dozens of armed guards and “consultations” with tribal leaders in Afghanistan and “everyone” in Pakistan.  This qualifies me to be as pig headed as the “Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon” [...]

Woody Williams—A Life Inspires, a Man Makes Us Proud

ShareSome we meet inspire a powerful sentiment of pride, love and respect; a desire to express gratitude, to shake hands, some human way to express  joy that another lives with a singular decency and courage. Below is a story of an encounter with such a heroic man—the last surviving Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from the World War II battle for Iwo [...]

General sounds alarm on U.S. Army training

ShareBy Nancy A Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Army’s ability to train its forces is “increasingly at risk” because of the nation’s protracted commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the general in charge of training has told the Army’s chief of staff.
In a Feb. 16 memo to Gen. George W. Casey, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the [...]

Veterans-For-Change News

ShareSome Nonprofits Shortchange Troops, Watchdog Group Says
By Philip Rucker, Washington Post Staff Writer
Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charities designed to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of the groups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leading watchdog organization and federal tax filings.
Eight [...]

Navy Veteran Says Active-Duty Son Fears Reference to Jesus Christ on His Facebook

ShareA Navy veteran whose son serving in the Navy reports she and her son were recently “very concerned when [the son] got very upset when [the veteran] posted on his Facebook references to Jesus Christ.” They both fear retaliation.
Said the veteran, “It appears that our military men and women are being warned if they speak of such [religious] issues they will be kicked [...]

Ed Freeman Lives

ShareEdward Freeman died almost two years ago.
Freeman was a former Army helicopter pilot who received the Medal of Honor for his heroics during the Vietnam War.
He was portrayed in the Mel Gibson movie We Were Soldiers.
E-mail chains are still moving around the globe, now with an enough-about-Tiger Woods preface and other media tripe. Just got this e-mail from a bunch of Madison lawyers. Freeman [...]

Females May Finally Be Able To Serve on Submarines

ShareIt has been reported that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has notified Congress of plans to permit women to serve on submarines. Who made the rules to ban females from submarines to begin with, and what was the rationale behind the rule? Well, it is about time. If a female is good enough to dock and maintain submarines, [...]

Army Chief Pushes Back on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal

SharePushes back, but feels more like rhetoric easing in. From Talking Points Memo:
By Rachel Slajda – 
Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, and Army Secretary John McHugh testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell today and made clear they are less than enthusiastic about repealing the policy.
Casey and [...]

Distant Wars, Constant Ghosts

SINCE the two recent NATO-led military strikes that accidentally killed dozens of Afghan civilians, I have been thinking a great deal about the psychic toll that killing takes on soldiers.
In 2007, I was an Army lieutenant leading a group on a house-clearing mission in Baquba, Iraq, when I called in an artillery strike on a house. The strike destroyed the house and killed everyone inside. I thought we had struck enemy fighters, but I was wrong. A father, mother and their children had been huddled inside.

How to avoid the Patriot Day Coup of 2016

ShareThis is a follow-up of my article on September 11, 2016 – The Patriots Day Coup, the first story was a fictional account used by Lt. Colonel  William J. Astore as an attention getter for what could potentially happen if our national leaders remain on this collision course with history. The second part of this [...]

Joint Commission official visits Camp Lejeune

ShareThe healthcare accrediting agency may be following up on concerns raised by a series of Salon exposés
By Mark Benjamin

The Joint Commission, the nonprofit healthcare accrediting organization that inspects the quality of patient treatment at hospitals, has dispatched an official to assess potential problems at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune.
“Yes, we do have a surveyor on site,” [...]

September 11, 2016 – The Patriots Day Coup

ShareTwo articles came to my attention that I wanted to throw out there for our readers to feed on. One deals with the potential threat of a defense budget and industry out of control, and the other (posted separately) deals with the WE Political Party to counter the Tea Party movement. I found that one [...]

Camp Lejeune Marines Put in Cancer’s Harmful Way

An environmental contractor dramatically underreported the level of a cancer-causing chemical found in tap water at Camp Lejeune, then omitted it altogether as the Marine base prepared for a federal health review.

Women’s Work

Meanwhile, back here in the United States, women in the military are still seen as less capable and something of a curiosity. The fact that we are so grossly outnumbered — only 14 percent of soldiers in the Army are women — automatically makes us a curiosity. Until I saw that video about the I.D.F., I thought that women were pretty well integrated in our Army.

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