Country Singer On Hiatus

Hello Military Pundits readers! I just wanted to pop in to let everyone know that I will resume contributing when I return from somewhere in the Middle East. While I know that it is commonplace for deployed soldiers to blog, I am unfortunately under direct orders to not blog while deployed due to [...]

So this is what our own military thinks of us?

This picture is reported to have been taken on Ft. Benning (the home of the Infantry and future home of the Armor). Based on this sign and the one next to it, I assume it is located at the Provost Marshall or Military Police office on base.
What this picture is saying is that if [...]

To go with the earlier blog

This was sent to me by a good friend, fellow milblogger and warrior. Since I just wrote a post a few minutes ago that this would have went well with, I decided to throw this one up real fast too.
It speaks to a lot of the issues that the military has with the current [...]

PTSD is not Contagious or an Excuse

Last Friday I woke up to my normally filled email inbox. However there were two emails that stuck out to me. One was from BBC and the other was from SkyNews. I have been a guest on both of their Radio and TV shows respectively, but am on BBC much more. Both media outlets wanted [...]

Everybody Just Simmer Down!

I’ve been hearing about this all day.  I’ve had people call, text, email, and post on Facebook about it.  MOS 31E – Internment/Resettlement Specialist.  For some reason, advertisements for this MOS on various job boards, like Monster.com, have brought out more crazies than the Birthers could hope to generate.  It didn’t help that these ads were [...]

Memorial Day, Don’t forget why you aren’t at work

Better than a Pinewood Derby

Where was this program when my middle son was wanting to drop out of Boy Scouts, which he eventually did. I can guarantee you he would still be in and probably be the top Scout had they offered this in pack 93.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.htmlThe responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — [...]

Good job Mr. President

I will complain when I don’t agree and I will compliment when I do agree. If the President or his administration does something I think is good or in the best interest of this county I will say so. I was not happy when I heard that the President was going to release the additional [...]

Leadership and Laptops

I just read an article from the March 2009 edition of USAA magazine entitled Leadership and Laptops.  The BLUF of the responses to the theme coming from COs & PLs is the inordinate amount of time and effort consumed by after action / post patrol reports, all done using MS Powerpoint. WTF, over? Can anyone out [...]

Over 1050 Generals support DADT

Check out a Op-Ed piece that was published yesterday in the Wa-Po (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/04/14/ST2009041402780.html?sid=ST2009041402780) and read how over 1000 very experienced General and Flag officers have signed onto a letter that was sent to the President requesting him to keep the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in place.
They cite facts, statistics and put up a very [...]