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I’m Off

Heading up to KPTV in a T-34B, just for the All Red Star that’s in it.

Spur of the moment kind of thing, got a call from a friend and so on.

I’ll be off the grid, talk amongst yerselves.

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Thanga, and that

Your hosts is independently informed by two different sources that these our humble scribblings have been awarded “Best Veteran’s Milblog”, after the late unpleasantness with those submariners. Who, if they hadn’t have thrown the gauntlet down might have borne the bell away, etc. Ourselves being utterly unaware of the competition’s existence, even.

So much [...]

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Punching Down

When it comes to handing the news media, the president’s staff has a pernicious habit of punching below their weight class. Back in 2009, it was Fox News. Now the same folks who promised the most open and transparent administration in history are picking on a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who had the temerity [...]

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TRAP

More info is leaking out about the Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (TRAP) mission executed in Libya last month:

As that back door opened, I see a group of young Marine recon units jump out, and that was probably the best feeling I’ve ever felt in my entire life,’ Major Harney said on [...]

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A 9/10 Mindset

When Barack Obama was a presidential candidate, he ran against George W. Bush, who of course wasn’t even in the race. Having been sworn in to a job that he pursued with relentless energy, he spent most of his first two years blaming his predecessor for the country’s woes. Time has run out on [...]

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Bad Neighborhood

Israel has been watching the “Arab spring” with some trepidation, according to Ted Koppel:

It is provocative, but not entirely inaccurate, to suggest that U.S. foreign policy these past few months has been sufficiently erratic to make America’s allies reconsider the degree to which we can be trusted—and our adversaries re-evaluate the degree to [...]

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To Be a Briton

I’ve never been to the UK, except for passing through. It is on my bucket list, but anything from a priority. The weather is commonly dreadful I’m told, which is one of the reasons so many young British people are found in such far-flung parts of the globe.

But some things they do very [...]

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Sign o’ the Times

McDonald’s had a little hiring event last week. Ended up being quite the thing:

McDonald’s Corp. (MCD), the world’s biggest restaurant chain, said it hired 24 percent more people than planned during an employment event this month.

McDonald’s and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, [...]

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How’d That Get There?

Snowboarding can be an expensive hobby:

(A) seizure was conducted at 1 p.m. March 6 on an aircraft following a four-day, continuous surveillance operation by Peru’s (Illinois) Special Investigations and Enforcement Unit, assisted by both Peru K-9 units and numerous officers.

In the filing, the aircraft was revealed to be a Piper single-engine airplane [...]

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And Then There Were Ten

Still raining command pins:

The commander of a guided-missile destroyer has been relieved of command while the Navy investigates allegations of misconduct.

The San Diego-based Third Fleet says (the commanding officer) of the USS Momsen was relieved Wednesday due to what’s termed “loss of confidence in his ability to command.” He was reassigned to [...]

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