07 January 2016
This unit is getting hit hard by suicide. Nobody seems to know what to do. I have a humble idea...
Read more: Suicide Claims 14th Marine From a Unit Battered by Loss
06 January 2016
Erik is the finest combat leader I ever went to combat with. Spent five months with him. Before I got there to the unit in Mosul, Erik had already been knocked out by a car bomb and all sorts of other things, but was still doing missions literally 7 days per week, as the battalion commander.
The enemy hated Erik so much that they put a bounty on him. The enemy hated Deuce Four. I loved them. They were incredibly aggressive and so there was constant contact with the enemy.
Read more: Deuce Four: B. General Erik Kurilla makes an Amazing Speech
21 December 2015
Flying Snake: Golden Tree Snake, Chiang Mai, Thailand [Click to watch]
I was sitting here studying about Korea and set up my camera for this snake. I know a little about its habits and just less than one minute after the video started rolling, its tongue flickered out and then it came out. Perfect timing.
21 December 2015
I got a call this morning that Abhisit wants to talk on Thursday. I can try to work in questions if there is time. If you have any questions just post here and I will do my best. I will ask how the meeting went with U.S. Ambassador Glynn Davies.
Read more: Upcoming Talk with: Vejjajiva Abhisit, former Prime Minister of Thailand
02 November 2015
I offer $10,000 (now $20,000) to the first person who can prove Laura Hillenbrand's allegations of this massive Japanese War Crime on Tinian Island in 1944.
From her book referencing Tinian island in 1944:
Read more: Truth Wanted: $10,000 Reward (Update 14 December 2015 -- Reward is now $20,000)
06 December 2015
From my Facebook
USA/Netherlands/Ukraine/Germany/Canada: Stolen Art in Nazi hands -- hands that our leaders are shaking
I published numerous times recently that a significant story was about to break regarding Ukraine. Clearance just came to me to publish. Minutes ago the story hit a front page in Netherlands.
Read more: U.S. and Others Working with Nazis Dealing in Stolen Art
25 November 2015
Image credit: U.S. Marine Corps. H/T @DCDude1776 for the heads-up
By David Cenciotti
A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft is depicted with seemingly solid rotor disks.
The image in this post shows a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey assigned to Special Purpose MAGTF – CR – CC during a TRAP (tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel) drill at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, on Nov. 16, 2015.
What makes the shot particularly interesting (and vaguely Star Wars-like…) is the halo effect caused by the sand hitting the blades and eroding their metal surface. The effect is more visible around the blades’ tips where the peripheral speed is higher.
Caused by the oxidation of eroded particles, the so-called “Kopp-Etchells effect” (named by war correspondent Michael Yon after Cpl. Benjamin Kopp, and Cpl. Joseph Etchells, two fallen American and British soldiers) makes the tilt-rotor aircraft more visible from distance, hence more vulnerable.
Click here to see the original article.
デュース・フォーの指揮官たち：ロバート・プロッサー司令上級曹長とエリック・クリーヤ中佐が病院の外にいるダニエルの母親に電話をかける
イラク・モスル
戦争においてさえ、戦闘は予期しない形で訪れる。
月曜に、モスル西部で作戦従事中に、無線で声がとどき、我々の兄弟部隊である3-21がチグリス川の反対側にあたるモスル東部で敵と交戦中との連絡が入った。その直後に、ウィル・ショックリー二等軍曹が米兵一人死亡という報告を我々にもたらした。我々はチグリス川の自陣側にいるはずの敵方射撃手を探し始めたが、すでに逃亡していた。ホセ・L・ルイスが戦死した。
モスルの状況は改善しているが、我々の部隊は今も毎日戦い続けている。今回の戦争は数年前に皆が思っていたような戦争とは異なるものかも知れない。だがいざ砲撃が始まると、事前の計画など単なる役立たずの正装に過ぎなくなる。
Published: August 31, 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Combat comes unexpectedly, even in war.
On Monday, while conducting operations in west Mosul, a voice came over the radio saying troops from our brother unit, the 3-21, were fighting with the enemy in east Mosul on the opposite side of the Tigris River. Moments later, SSG Will Shockley relayed word to us that an American soldier was dead. We began searching for the shooters near one of the bridges on our side of the Tigris, but they got away. Jose L. Ruiz was killed in action.
Although the situation in Mosul is better, our troops still fight here every day. This may not be the war some folks had in mind a few years ago. But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.
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