My new desktop at work.

lets remember why!

Excellent Christene!!

Why We Fight!

Thank-You AngryProphet!!

Your photos are AWESOME!!

GREAT PICTURE AngryProphet!!....AMERICANS SOLDIERS ARE THE BEST!!!

BTW,...Thank-You Ted for posting this tribute link for our Soldiers!...I’ve sent this link over to some family in Iraq!...: o )

I agree 100%....Great picture!

Hooah!

WOW! Great B/W of early McCain…!

Military Family Tribute

What more can one say,...Thank-You!

Excellent! You should leave it up! That’s the kind that should be here, ones that “move” you…

I saved it.

Women Behind the Soldiers

Tribute To Our Fallen Heroes

These are the 3 best I have found…That “move” me to tears.

Another Excellent one! These are great!

BTW,...Thank-You AngryProphet.

That’s just OK Christene. Love all your postings!

HOOAH! Chris, Rob, Ted & Angryprophet.This is cool.

Thank you “Troop13” all of us here wish you our best!

God Bless Our TROOPS!!!

http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/06/alaskas-gov-sar.html

New Direction for the war on terrorists. Send Service Vets over 60.

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I’m too old to track down
Terrorists. You can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got
the whole thing ass backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to
fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn’t be able to join a
military unit until you’re at least 35.

For starters:

Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys
only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000
additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven’t lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier
is a dangerous soldier. ‘My back hurts! I can’t sleep, I’m tired and
hungry.’ We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that
desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a
while.

An 18 -year-old doesn’t even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys
always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, ‘I’m
tired and can’t sleep and since I’m already up, I may as well be up
Killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.

If captured we couldn’t spill the beans because we’d forget where we put
them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We’re used to getting screamed
and yelled at, and we’re used to soft food. We’ve also developed an
appreciation for guns. We’ve been using them for years as an excuse to
get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course, however. I’ve been in
combat and didn’t see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the
side, nor did I ever do any push ups after completing basic training. I
can hear the Drill Sgt. In the ‘New army’ now, ‘Get down and give me …
ER … One.’

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I’ve never
seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He’s still learning to
shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn’t
figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the
Back of his head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little
more about life before sending them off into harm’s way.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last
thing an enemy would want to see right now is a couple of million
pissed-off old farts with ‘attitude’ and automatic weapons who know that
their best years are already behind them.

If nothing else, put us on border patrol … We will have it secured the
first night !

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From: MILA (kāfir) كافر
Date: Sep 28, 2008 12:02 PM


—-—-—-- Bulletin Message --—-—-—
From: Cyber Crusader
Date: Sep 28, 2008 11:57 AM
Were We Greeted as “Liberators”?

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“And so John likes — John, you like to pretend like the war started in 2007. You talk about the surge. The war started in 2003, and at the time when the war started, you said it was going to be quick and easy. You said we knew where the weapons of mass destruction were. You were wrong.


You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators. You were wrong.”-Barry, Presidential debate September 26, 2008, on the campus of the University of Mississippi.



Media Matters:

* On the March 12, 2003, edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews asked McCain: “Do you believe that the people of Iraq or at least a large number of them will treat us as liberators?” McCain answered: “Absolutely. Absolutely.
”

* On the March 24, 2003, edition of Hardball — several days after a U.S.led coalition had invaded Iraq — McCain said: “[T]here’s no doubt in my mind that we will prevail and there’s no doubt in my mind, once these people are gone, that we will be welcomed as liberators.
”

Has John McCain backed away from these statements? Is there really need to do so? No. And no.


Here he is on January 10, 2007, Meet the Press, defending those statements:



Even in last night’s debate, Senator McCain said:

I think the lessons of Iraq are very clear that you cannot have a failed strategy that will then cause you to nearly lose a conflict. Our initial military success, we went in to Baghdad and everybody celebrated. And then the war was very badly mishandled. I went to Iraq in 2003 and came back and said, we’ve got to change this strategy. This strategy requires additional troops, it requires a fundamental change in strategy and I fought for it. And finally, we came up with a great general and a strategy that has succeeded.


This strategy has succeeded. And we are winning in Iraq. And we will come home with victory and with honor. And that withdrawal is the result of every counterinsurgency that succeeds.


Tim Russert, God bless him, was corrected in his assumption by John Burns of the New York Times, on February 3, 2007:



“The American troops were greeted as liberators. We saw it. It lasted very briefly, it was exhausted quickly by the looting.
” – John Burns [The Anchoress has a longer transcript great stuff from Burns]

Was it all a mirage? A propaganda stunt? Or did we really see Iraqis waving to American convoys as they pressed on to Baghdad? Was their real joy amongst Iraqis when Saddam’s statue was dragged down? Or was it all staged?

..

April 2003 – Lieutenant Colonel Jim Chartier, commanding officer of U.S.
Marines 1st Tank Battalion, briefs his commanders at the Martyrs Monument in Baghdad in a scene from the Military Channel’s “Delta Company: A New Era in Baghdad”:



Do people forget:



Baghdad fell in 3 weeks.
In comparison to other war invasions of this scale, overthrowing Saddam’s regime was indeed a cakewalk.
That’s why on May 2, 2003, President Bush announced that major combat operations had ended.
The post-war insurgency was another beast entirely, however related. It brought us from war to counterinsurgency.
Historically, insurgencies last an average of more than 10 years before chances of quelling it improve.
In 5 years time, thanks to the pressures of waning public opinion in America, partisan political posturing among Democrats, al Qaeda revealing their true nature to the Iraqi people, a highly motivated military and the right general in the right place at the right time; and thanks to a president with tenacious resolve, the insurgency in Iraq appears to be coming to a close in under 10 years.
..

When American and Coalition forces first overthrew Saddam’s regime, it wasn’t just the American public who were under the spell of “cakewalk”, even though President Bush in his “Mission Accomplish” speech warned that “we have difficult work to do in Iraq” and that the “transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time”. Who else aside from Americans became disillusioned by the fantasy of overnight success from dictatorship to democracy? The Iraqi people.

There have been a number of accounts regarding how Iraqis thought Americans could do anything. After all, the U.S. military and their allies dethroned the Butcher of Baghdad with seeming ease and effortlessness.
How is it that they could not transform 30 years of repression and oppression with just a snap of the fingers? Or even repair a 30-year neglected power, water, and sewage system overnight?

The insurgency began sometime before Paul Bremer arrived in Baghdad but really took shape sometime after his arrival when the decision to officially disband the Iraqi army and police force was made and offers of help from the sheiks rebuffed; and in wake of UNSC Resolution 1483, drafted on May 22, 2003, transforming our efforts in Iraq from one of liberation into occupation.

But all of this does not dispell the fact that initially, we were indeed greeted as liberators by many Iraqis.

From: Swoose

Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City , Georgia , just south of Atlanta , on June 11, 2009 . The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in McDonough , Georgia . A simple notice in local papers indicated the road route to be taken and the approximate time. Nowadays one can be led to believe that America no longer respects honor and no longer honors sacrifice outside the military. Be it known that there are many places in this land where people still recognize the courage and impact of total self-..sacrifice. The link below is a short travelogue of that day’s remarkable and painful journey. But only watch this if you wish to have some of your faith in people restored.

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U.S. Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L*. *Reusser, R.I.P.
By Michelle Malkin • June 29, 2009 11:01 PM Ugh. I am so maddeningly sick of the never-ending Michael Jackson circus, sucking up all the MSM oxygen and drawing out all the race hustlers and cable TV rats. Al Sharpton. Jesse Jackson. Celebrity lawyers. Sewage on parade.

Here’s a man whose legacy and name you should tell your children about instead: U.S. Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser. R.I.P. Via the Portland Oregonian:
They came by ones and twos Friday, quietly slipping into the pews at New Hope Community Church. They smiled at the words honoring a man whose faith made him an inspiration and whose exploits in three wars made him a hero.

And when the last mournful drone of the bagpipes faded, they said goodbye to Col. Kenneth L. Reusser of Milwaukie, the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps aviator in history.

“He was the finest gentleman I’ve ever met,” said Harley Wedel of Fairview, a fellow Korean War veteran. “I’m really going to miss him.”

Reusser flew an amazing 253 combat missions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was shot down in all three wars — five times in all. He earned two Navy Crosses, four Purple Hearts and two Legions of Merit among his 59 medals.

In 1945, while based in Okinawa, he stripped down his F4U-4 Corsair fighter and intercepted a Japanese observation plane at an altitude much higher than usual. When his guns froze, he flew his fighter into the observation plane, hacking off its tail with his propeller.

In 1950, while serving in the storied “Black Sheep Squadron,” he led an attack on a North Korean tank-repair facility at Inchon, then destroyed an oil tanker — almost blowing himself out of the sky in the process.

During the Vietnam War, Reusser flew helicopters. He was leading a Marine Air Group in a rescue mission, when his own “Huey” was shot down. He needed skin grafts over 35 percent of his badly burned body.

Reusser was born Jan. 27, 1920, the son of a Cloverdale minister. While still a teenager, he became a committed Christian, which remained a big part of his life.

Reusser lived a “Tom Sawyer-ish” existence, Wedel said, jumping off a barn roof to test a parachute, racing motorcycles to help pay for college and earning a pilot’s license before WWII broke out.

After retiring from the Marine Corps, he worked for Lockheed Aircraft and the Piasecki Helicopter Corp.

Gold Star Mother Debbie Lee asks Americans to check their priorities.

I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone intentionally flying his plane into another one to take it down!!
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“A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.”
-John F. Kennedy-

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end”
-R. J. Wiedemann LtCol . USMC Ret-

“The military is over-run with uneducated youth… not my profession.”
-ncmalko1 uneducated educator extraordinaire-

http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/political-views/290170-u-s-marine-corps-col-kenneth-l-reusser-r-i-p.html

LYRICS

I’ve got the reach and the teeth of a killin’ machine,

with a need to bleed you when the light goes green

best believe, I’m in a zone to be, from my Yin to my Yang to my Yang Tze

put a grin on my chin when you come to me,

‘cuz I’ll win, I’m a one-of-a-kind and I’ll bring death

to the place you’re about to be: another river of blood runnin’ under my feet

forged in a fire lit long ago, stand next to me, you’ll never stand alone

I’m last to leave, but the first to go, Lord, make me dead before you make me old

I feed on the fear of the devil inside of the enemy faces in my sights:

aim with the hand, shoot with the mind, kill with a heart like arctic ice

I am a soldier and I’m marching on

I am a warrior and this is my song

I bask in the glow of the rising war, lay waste to the ground of an enemy shore

wade through the blood spilled on the floor, and if another one stands I’ll kill some more

bullet in the breach and a fire in me, like a cigarette thrown, to gasoline

if death don’t bring you fear, I swear, you’ll fear these marchin’ feet

Come to the nightmare, come to me, deep down in the dark where the devil be

in the maw with the jaws and the razor teeth,

where the brimstone burns and the angel weeps

call to the gods if I cross your path and my silhouette hangs like a body bag

hope is a moment now long past, the shadow of death is the one I cast.

I am a soldier and I’m marching on

I am a warrior and this is my song

my eyes are steel and my gaze is long

I am a warrior and this is my song

now I live lean and I mean to inflict the grief,

and the least of me is still out of your reach

the killing machine’s gonna do the deed,

until the river runs dry and my last breath leaves

chin in the air with a head held high,

I’ll stand in the path of the enemy line

feel no fear, know my pride:

for God and Country I’ll end your life

I am a soldier and I’m marching on

I am a warrior and this is my song

my eyes are steel and my gaze is long

I am a warrior and this is my song

©2009 by Echo Sonic, All Rights Reserved

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