Category: War

  • Bedrooms Of The Fallen

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    These bedrooms once belonged to men and women who died fighting in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These fallen men and women were blown up by IEDs, RPGs, hand grenades and suicide bombers. They were shot down in ambushes and by snipers. They died in helicopters, in humvees, and in tanks. It all took…

  • WWII Battle Of Iwo Jima Pictures

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    The story that is before the picture set talks about the controversy surrounding the historic “Flag Raising” picture (shown on left) which was taken atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945.  The photographer, Joe Rosenthal, won a Pulitzer Prize for the picture. Make sure you check out the full picture set – HERE…

  • Army Warrior Transition Units

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    The New York Times has a heartbreaking report on the Army Warrior Transition Units: For many soldiers, they have become warehouses of despair, where damaged men and women are kept out of sight, fed a diet of powerful prescription pills and treated harshly by noncommissioned officers. Because of their wounds, soldiers in Warrior Transition Units…

  • Fat Kids Are A Threat To National Security

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    National security is threatened by the sharp rise in obesity rates for young people over the last 15 years, the group Mission: Readiness contends. Weight problems are now the leading medical reason that recruits are rejected, the group says, and thus jeopardize the military’s ability to fill its ranks. The solution? To throw some money…

  • Gatorade And The Taliban – Talibade

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    In my previous post about the U.S. abandoning their position in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, frequent commenter Aleksandr Mravinsky pointed out that the video showed one of the Taliban bozos at 3min 10sec with a Gatorade (pictured above). So naturally I fired up photoshop…

  • U.S. Abandoned Position in Korengal Valley And Apparently Left Lots Behind

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    [youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsyNvgDvvQw[/youtube] Boxes of ammunition, mortars, rockets, missiles? Tons of fuel left in the tanks? How hard would it have been to put everything on a pile and blow it up?  I don’t buy it… My guess is the Taliban is just making that up to appear stronger. I do think its odd that…