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Monday Book Pick: Act of Valor

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Act of Valor by Dick Couch and George Galdorisi

The Memorial Day edition of the Monday Book Pick is the book version of the movie Act of Valor. Filmed with real Navy SEALs playing Navy SEALs, the story follows a SEAL team on a series of missions that starts with the rescue of a DEA agent being tourtured by drug dealers. We’re not talking faux tourture like water boarding either. Intelligence gathered on that mission puts them on the trail of a terrorist planning on bringing death and destruction to America. Multiple reviews by combat vets state that this is one of the most realistic military movies they have ever seen.

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Monday Book Pick: SEAL Team Six: The Novel

Monday, May 14th, 2012

SEAL Team Six: The Novel by Chuck Dixon

A nice action novel about SEALs in the unit formerly known as SEAL Team Six. Here they are hunting Islamic terrorists who are finding and grooming “home grown” terrorists. It’s not about the fancy gear, or the politics behind the scenes, it’s about Good Guys finding and killing Bad Guys. For a $0.99 Kindle ebook, it certainly delivers value for your money. When I finished it, I was happy to find out it was the first in a planned series.

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Navy SEALs

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Navy SEALs

This movie was made in 1990, back when Hollywood wasn’t afraid to have Muslim terrorists be the bad guys. Charlie Sheen pulled off what was a badly written character as well as it could be expected. It was Michael Biehn who really shined in this film though. This was the first of at least three times he play a Navy SEAL. A good action flick where the bad guys get shot, stabbed, drown and blown up. Think of it as low budget way to get ready for Act of Valor, which is current playing in theaters and has real Navy SEALs playing the Navy SEALs. It also has Muslim terrorists as bad guy, which bucks the trend Hollywood has been following. A trend that has resulted in movies that suck and don’t make much money.

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Part 2 of J.R. Dunn’s “Beating Decline”

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Baen Books published an interesting Miltech article by Mr. Dunn, and has recently published Part 2, War in the Dirt.

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Interesting reading on Miltech

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

BEATING DECLINE: Miltech and the Survival of the U.S.

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How the Left supports our Troops

Friday, October 14th, 2011

A member of the US Coast Guard went a bit too close to the far left extremist, strike that, I mean “open minded and tolerant”  “Occupy” crowd in Boston yesterday.

They thanked the servicewoman for her service in the following fashion:

The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters.

The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul names and even threw a water bottle at her.

Can’t say I’m surprised.

Hold on a moment…was that a plastic water bottle thrown at the member of the US Coast Guard? Was wasn’t the thrower turned in for crimes against Gaea?

Oh well, just another data point to prove that there is nothing quite as intolerant and closed minded as an “open minded and tolerant liberal.”

HT to Mr. Reynolds, more at Moe Lane’s blog

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Monday Book Pick: Rogue Warrior

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko

Given that the Navy anti-terrorism group, which consists of SEAL Team Members and was originally called SEAL Team Six, I’m repeating the book pick from 12/29/08

This is the autobiography of the founder of SEAL Team Six, the Navy’s anti-terrorist unit.

Written in prison to pay off his legal fees. Considering one of his jobs in the Navy was to piss off Admirals, hardly surprising.
I still say the Admirals that put there should be brought up on charges. He is exactly the kind of psycho SOB (and I mean that in a good way) that you want doing the jobs he did.

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Christmas Cards for Recovering American Soldiers

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

When filling out your Christmas cards this year, take ONE CARD and SEND it to this address:

A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue
NW Washington, DC 20307-5001

If we pass this on and everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these soldiers could get to bring up their spirits!

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Hug a Veteran today

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

It’s Veteran’s Day today, so hug a Veteran and say thanks.

Update: From late 2009, an open letter to President Obama from a WWII Navy Veteran.

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Black is back!

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

When the US Army adopted the ACU (Army Combat Uniform) with a new digital camouflage pattern, the color black was not to be found in the pattern. The argument was the the color black is not found in nature. I’ve talked with members of the military who were on exercises with people wearing both the ACU and the older BDU uniforms (the BDUs had the woodland pattern) and was told that it was much easier to spot the people in the ACU at night.

It has been announced that the US Army is now producing a variant of the ACU with the MultiCam camouflage pattern. If you look closely at the MultiCam pattern, you will see that it includes the color black.

For now, the MultiCam pattern is only being issued in Afghanistan, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the more effective pattern make its way through the Army supply chain.

There are other changes being made to the ACU, based on feedback from soldiers in the field. One that caught my attention was replacing the Velcro ™ seals on the sleeve cargo pockets with buttons. Makes sense. Buttons are quiet.

Originally published at Urbin Technology

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