Bouhammer | March 9, 2010
About seven or eight months ago my good friend Scott Kesterson who was and still is in Afghanistan told me “things are changing here, they are going back to a Vietnam way of patrolling”. I was not sure what he was talking about or implying so I asked him. He told me that the troops [...]
Bouhammer | March 8, 2010
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – Soldiers and Airmen gathered to pay their final respects to Sgt. William C. Spencer, at a fallen Soldier ceremony March 1 at the Joint Operations Center at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.
Spencer, a gunner with G Company, 106th Brigade Support Battalion, 155th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), died [...]
Bouhammer | March 5, 2010
It seems that our coalition partners in Afghanistan now see the value and experience of GEN McChrystal. I figure they must since they are allowing their troops to be put under his command.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, is being given expanded authority over U.S. and NATO forces in the country, a [...]
Bouhammer | March 3, 2010
I get is Gen McChrystal, I really do. I know why you have implemented so many new rule and restrictions as protecting the Afghan people is important and well the enemy is kicking out butt in the Information Operations (IO) campaign. But these little one-off rules that are so micro in nature don’t really do [...]
Bouhammer | March 3, 2010
It seems that my opinion of The Hurt Locker was not a lone voice.
‘Hurt Locker’ Under Military Attack as Oscars Approach
By Ed Barnes
- FOXNews.com
Five days before the Oscars are awarded, "The Hurt Locker," what some people are calling "the best Iraq war movie to date," finds itself under attack.
Five days before the [...]
Bouhammer | February 18, 2010
Army Times is reporting that based on accurate information from sources, the next uniform pattern to be fielded Army-wide in Afghanistan will be the Multi-Cam design. They are expecting an official announcement very soon from Secretary of the Army John McHugh.
By Matthew Cox – Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 20:32:46 EST
Secretary of the Army [...]
Bouhammer | February 16, 2010
After just writing the last blog posting about the inaccuracies of MSM reporters, I am glad to counter that and say at least one has gotten everything correct. The link below will take you to the story that the USA Today is publishing in tomorrow’s paper about The Hurt Locker and the different views about [...]
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