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Beat Army
Haze gray and underway. Halls of Montezuma, and occasional bones thrown to the second-string armed services.
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Thanks to USNA-at-Large's John Howland for this:
One August night in 2002, John P. Ruggiero went drinking.
Ruggiero, a 20-year-old Midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, returned to his dorm room so obliterated that he thought it might Read More
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Trust Wretchard the Cat for a riveting historical perspective.
“Asymmetrical Warfare, 1906” tells the story of American forces locked in desperate combat with Moro forces in the Phillippines at the turn of the 20th Century. The tactics and Read More
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Back in May I created a post displaying the photos and circumstances of death of U.S. Naval Academy alumni who have fallen, on or since 9/11, as casualties of the War on Terror. Sadly, the post is already somewhat out of date.
My thought was to offer Read More
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“All me bloomin' life, sorr! Me mother was a mermaid, and me father was King Neptune. I was born on the crest of a wave, and rocked in the cradle of the deep. Seaweed and barnicles are me clothes. Every tooth in me head is a marlinspike, and the Read More
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Orson Scott Card presents a thought-provoking case for the notion that Syria will have to be next on our checklist of fascist states to overthrow by force of arms... and perhaps should have come before Iraq. Iran, too... though Card's theory is that, Read More
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With regret, I'd like to share the following:
I am sending this message out to our entire "Extended Brigade" to regretfully inform all of you of the death of Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale '47, USN Ret.). Jim Stockdale was a loving husband, a loyal Read More
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This is a follow-up to my post on The Hackensaw Boys, a great band who let slip an unfortunate (and highly inappropriate) political zinger from the stage the night before Independence Day.
Yesterday afternoon, less than two days after my post, I Read More
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Update: The Hackensaw Boys have responded to this complaint with admirable style. All is forgiven... and if you miss their show, I conclude that you're nuts, and that you hate music to boot.
I caught The Hackensaw Boys tonight at the 24th Annual American Read More
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Here it is again, almost.
I'd like to thank all the columnists and pundits out there--notably John Kass--who suggested taking the opportunity on Independence Day to do something nice for one of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who put their Read More
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When I went to Marine boot camp in 1988, I reasonably expected never to share a fighting hole with a woman.
It isn't that I had, or have, anything against the notion of women operating machine guns—in fact, at nineteen, I'm fairly sure I would Read More
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Senator Durbin's diatribe left me speechless; thankfully, cooler heads closed the breach. Here's one:
Subject: Paul Galanti Ltr to dustbin durbin
Senator Durbin,
As one who was held in a North Vietnamese Prison for nearly seven years and whose definition Read More
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We remember our own best.
Since 9/11, twenty-four U.S. Naval Academy graduates have died in events connected to the War on Terror. Fourteen died on 9/11, some at the WTC or the Pentagon, and some aboard the hijacked aircraft. The remaining ten have died Read More
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Men's Journal shows us what's tough.
Money quote, by Senator Bob Dole, regarding his colleague (and former Viet Nam POW) John McCain: “Spend five years in a box and you're entitled to speak your mind.”
Amen, shipmate.
One problem, though: Read More
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Here's a blast from the past.
Remember Torgerson? Last September, while kicking him into his hat over his reaction to my quantitative analysis of the then-current state of the Iraq war, entitled “Putting Civilian Deaths in Perspective,” I Read More
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Seriously... when all you ever get to see is boring stuff like this:
Many thanks for these yawners to Dave Leather & John Howland at USNA-At-Large, and most especially to the valiant, long-suffering sailors Read More
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