Recruiting in Marin
The other day, I had a delightful lunch with Staff Sargeant Jason Eck, the Army’s recruiter in Marin. I wrote about it here, at Pajamas Media.
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Someone out there likes us
It was sent to me by a military friend as unclassified, so I’ve felt free to go ahead and publish: I am an Australian and my son is an Australian – as far as we are concerned there is not place on God’s earth better than Australia, and there are
Continue readingSunday reading
We received in yesterday’s mail a warning (a very nice warning) that my 5th grader is struggling with geometry. As a former geometry struggler myself, I’m all sympathy. We did not get mad at her. What is infuriating, though, is her absolutely unwillingness to learn geometry. After 1.5 years in
Continue reading“Yes, I will ignore the commanders.”
Our local public radio station was replaying the most recent Hillbama debate, and so I listened to a piece of it that had slipped under my radar the first time. It’s actually quite funny, despite the scary implications of what Hillary is saying she’ll do regarding Iraq if she’s elected
Continue readingThe horrors of battle
A couple of nights ago, I watched a Frontline show entitled Bad Voodoo’s War, which followed a platoon of National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the Surge in 2007. The show’s editor/producer did not go to war with the men. Instead, she gave them
Continue readingMichael Monsoor — hero
The MSM has been very low key about this one (natch), but we in the blogosphere don’t have to abide by MSM constraints. I therefore wanted to make sure all of you knew the story of Michael Monsoor, the first Naval hero to be awarded a Medal of Honor in
Continue readingThey don’t make ’em like they used to
The Progressives are crying for our boys to come home, but these seem to be crocodile tears, designed to hide a desire to harangue and insult them when they do return. After all, whether you’re looking at the Ivies’ refusal to allow military recruiters on campus or Code Pink’s assault
Continue readingOnce a Marine
I loved this short, but true, story: A teenager learned it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, no matter how old he is. Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said an 84-year-old man was walking on Fourth Street with a grocery
Continue readingCrazy teachers at home and abroad
This morning we read about the Minneapolis high school that turned away the Vets for Freedom bus. It turns out that this attitude, in its most extreme form, is epidemic in England: Teachers today vowed to oppose military recruitment campaigns in schools that are based on Ministry of Defence “propaganda”.
Continue readingInteresting editorial choice
As is the rest of the media, the Times is making much of the fact that 4,000 American troops have died during more than five years of war in Iraq. I won’t repeat here (or, at least, I won’t repeat at length) my oft-stated belief that, while each death is
Continue readingA little perspective on the “grim milestone” watch
If nothing else proves that most MSM journalists are hacks, it’s their inability to break free from the phrase “grim milestone” whenever they talk about a new reportable number of American deaths in Iraq. They’ve taken a phrase that should give a sense of tragedy and, instead, turned it into
Continue readingRecruiting in Marin
Our local paper, the Marin Independent Journal, has a surprisingly nice, fact-filled article about the uphill work of being an Army recruiter in Marin County. There’s a small amount of harassment, but mostly there’s just a huge lack of interest — which is sad, since Marin, as one of America’s
Continue readingLying about military service
In the wake of past wars (pre-Vietnam), noncombatant men used to lie about having served as a way to increase their status: even though one of these confabulators might have spent the war as a sidings salesmen in Paducah, he could increase his standing amongst the credulous by claiming to
Continue readingLet ’em talk
Rob Riggle, at the Daily Show, demonstrates that people who support the military may find that their best weapon is simply to let Code Pink talk, and talk, and talk. Man, those gals are stupid.
Continue readingKilling puppies
There’s a big hoo-ha about the “Marines killing a puppy video,” a bit of nastiness, whether real or faked, that is giving the anti-military crowd a lot of grist for their “the military creates monsters” mill. I learned something interesting, though, at From my position . . . on the
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