Gun Control

By lex, on May 3rd, 2010

This man has it:**

Flying Warrants

 

By lex, on May 2nd, 2010

The Navy’s first flying warrant officer has received his helicopter aircraft commander ** sign-off:

On This Date

By lex, on April 27th, 2010

Marine Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon receives a sword:

Trying

By lex, on April 25th, 2010

After holding a number of Somali pirates captured when they fired on US Navy warships, the federal has decided to give the men their day in court:**

Farce

By lex, on April 22nd, 2010

Well, that didn’t take very long:

No Masri

By lex, on April 19th, 2010

Another job has just opened up in Mesopotamia. An executive position as it turns out:

About right

By lex, on August 7th, 2008

Salim Hamdan, former driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to prison today following his conviction by a military commission in Guantanamo yesterday for providing material support for terror. The government failed to win a conviction on more serious charges, and while prosecutors had asked for a 30-year sentence for the convictions they did garner, the military jury sentenced Hamdan to sixty-six months. Counting time served, he will be eligible for release in six months time.

Censorship

By lex, on April 15th, 2010

Back when Dubya was fighting his “Global War on Terror”, the criticism was that you don’t make war on “terror” – that being a tactic – but upon those who would use that tactic. In World War II, by contrast, we didn’t wage a “Pacific War on Aircraft Carriers – we fought the Japanese.

Kings and Tyrants

By lex, on April 13th, 2010

This sort of thing is really wearing thin.*

DFC

By lex, on April 12th, 2010

The story of how Navy Lieutenant Miroslav “Steve” Zilberman sacrificed his life to save his crew has moved beyond conjectural: