What Really Matters
Story behind this? Her dad was leaving on a 2 year deployment.
She was crying and wouldn’t let go of her dad’s hand, even when he stood in line saluting.
No one had the heart to break them apart.
Incredible
Amazing what our military does, to bad Obama thinks so little of them.
How It Should Be
I have seen a few of these pics over the last year or so. Soldiers blowin’ shit up and not flinching, (other than the dog at the bottom who is gettin the hell outta there). The thing I find interesting is the races of these soldiers, all brothers in arms. It’s not about race, it’s about survival and having each others back.
With Obama and his useful idiots doing their best to divide a nation they could learn something from this picture. It’s not about race or income, it’s about being an American and surviving the good times and the bad.
Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
If this is how Obama wants to fight, then the fight is already over. It’s not bad enough that the Obama regime is purging military commanders and taking Christianity away from the troops, but the rules of engagment have handcuffed the troops due to politics, and that is getting men killed.
73% of all troops fatalities there happened in the 45 months since Obama took office. The number of wounded has also gone up an incredible amount: almost 5 times the number of people have been wounded under Obama as under Bush.
These are amazing figures, and need to be explained. Why have so many died under Obama, when proportionately so many fewer died under George Bush’s watch, even though he began this war, and waged it longer?
The answer is easy to provide. Under Obama, the Rules of Engagement (ROE) have been progressively tightened, limiting more and more the circumstances under which a US serviceman can use deadly force. Worst of all, the ROE has become so complicated that soldiers are scared to fire for fear they will face a court martial. The aim of the changing ROE is theoretically benign: every attempt is being made to guard against civilian casualties. But US soldiers are facing people who are indistinguishable from civilians in almost every way, until they start shooting or set off a bomb. How do they know if someone involved in suspicious activities is a civilian or an insurgent?
Letter a father sent back to Obama after the death of his son in Afghanistan, it was written on the bottom of Obama’s standard form letter for the next of kin.
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Raining Down Hellfire
Holy crap on a cracker!
Fair & Balanced
Stealing a slogan but I saw this over at Theo Spark.
I posted pics of the soldiers that hid their faces, I did so because I don’t want to get into the Syrian conflict, and anybody feeling the same way, I will post it.
But then again, this is why we have a kick ass military. All I can say is I see both points of view. Yeah squishy I know.
Random Military
Soldiers Letters To Wife & Daughter
What a good man, have tissues ready.
Two days after she laid her beloved soldier husband to rest Emma Weaver opened the laptop he’d had in Afghanistan and was overcome with emotion.
Mrs Weaver realized her darling husband Todd, who was killed by an IED on his second tour of Afghanistan in September 2010, had written both his leading ladies goodbye letters in the event of his death.There were two Word documents on the desktop, one called ‘Dear Emma,’ the other marked ‘Dear Kiley’ for the couple’s baby daughter.
Read entire story here
Shut Them All Down
Here’s a thought. Instead of temporarily closing embassies across the middle east, shut them down permanently. What is to gain from having Americans constantly under threat of terrorists attack?
Shut ’em down, all of them that are in any country that has terrorist ties, (which would be about every country in the middle east and North Africa), and save a few bucks. I’ll bet you could even open up the White House for tours with the money saved. That would certainly annoy the king, pesky kids running amok through the great ones current residence, but I digress. Why do we need people over there anyway. If we need to spy on someone, I am sure the CIA,FBI, whoever have got plenty of operatives in country that can handle that task.
Shut ’em down and never re-open them. The thought that we need politicians in these countries is asinine. If an American finds himself in a country without an embassy, then he should figure out a way to get out himself. If he is there under direction of the military, then the military can take the heat to get him out. Not only are politicians at risk, but as we found with Benghazi, military personnel tasked with their safety are in harms way for no other reason than to guard a piece of real estate in a state where the majority of the populace wants them dead or gone….so go!
Diplomatic facilities in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Riyadh, Dhahran, Jeddah, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Sanaa, Tripoli, Antananarivo, Bujumbura, Djibouti, Khartoum, Kigali, and Port Louis are instructed to close for normal operations through Saturday, Aug. 10.
King said he believes al-Qaeda “is in many ways stronger than it was before 9/11 because it has mutated and it’s spread in dramatically different locations.” The terror network’s Yemen branch, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, “is the most deadly of all the al-Qaeda affiliates,” King said.
Zarate, the former Deputy National Security Adviser to President George W. Bush, concurred with King’s assessment.“The problem is you’ve had the rise of the al-Qaeda affiliates, groups in Yemen, North Africa, East Africa,” Zarate said. “Those groups have taken up the strategic and operational mantle for al-Qaeda and the group in Yemen has been the most dangerous because they want to hit the United States.”
Even though Obungler said that Al-Qaeda is on the run, I would guess that from the state of affairs in the areas listed above, not only are they not on the run, they have gotten stronger. With all of that hatred towards our country the only American that should be around is one running a drone from thousands of miles away.
Crowd Control….
