MRAPs on the way!
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 2 Comments »The following is a guest post from Congressman K. Michael Conaway of the 11th District of Texas. Thank you, Congressman, for your tireless effort to keep us in the fight! I am happy to announce that by the end of the ...
ASP Quoted in Armed Forces Journal
Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 4 Comments »The Armed Forces Journal quoted a piece of mine written about the complete freak out of the MSM on the lock down of the government network. Here is the portion that quotes me. "CPL M" at Patriot Soldier (http://www.soldiersperspective.us) focuses criticism ...
Fighting Iraqi Police
Saturday, July 14th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 3 Comments »Pundit Tammy Bruce completely missed the mark when we wrote about US forces engaged Iraqi police. Here is the news article Tammy blogged about. BAGHDAD - U.S. troops battled Iraqi police suspected of links to Iranian-backed Shiite militiamen, killing six in ...
Another Reason Not to Mess with Vets
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 2 Comments »This time it comes from Memphis, an hour away from my hometown in Arkansas. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An 80-year-old veteran and former amateur boxer got 13 stitches after fighting with a mugger inside a bathroom at a veterans hospital. George Younger ...
This Guy Deserved It
Saturday, June 30th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 63 Comments »Yes, there are bad apples out there. There are even bad apples that are E-9s, also known as Command Sergeant Major in this case. Guy is just a Spec now, though. What a complete dumbass. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE No. 20070630-09 June 30, ...
Crying Censorship
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 15 Comments »Before I begin on this rant, I would like to state for the record that I read both of the blogs I'm going to bring up and their authors are great people. Both of their blogs have been in my ...
Matt Sanchez Embedded in Iraq
Sunday, June 17th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 4 Comments »Remember my post from January about Matt Sanchez, a Marine reservist, facing anti-military sentiments at Columbia? I learned today that he is currently embedded here in Iraq and has a new blog where he is writing. I emailed him and ...
Happy Father's Day
Sunday, June 17th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 7 Comments »On behalf of all of us here at ASP, I would like to wish all our readers a very Happy Father's Day. The wish also goes out to your fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles, grand parents, friends, and even those antiwar ...
A Special Breed
Friday, June 15th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 10 Comments »Matt over at Blackfive gave me my goosebumps moment of the night with a story he received from his readers that was posted on the blog of Chaplain Jim Higgins a month ago. I hope the Chaplain and Matt don't ...
General Pace Refused Voluntarily Retire
Friday, June 15th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 8 Comments »More information is coming out how Gen Pace was tossed aside as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. WASHINGTON — In his first public comments on the Bush administration's surprise decision to replace him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...
He's Got Jokes
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | No Comments »I can't help but laugh at least one or two times when I visit Maj Pain's blog. Today's gem was one that I find especially amusing. MEMORANDUM FROM: The Almighty One TO: Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines SUBJ: WHICH MILITARY SERVICE IS THE BEST 1. ...
Groundhog Day Six and a Half Days a Week
Monday, June 11th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 2 Comments »My latest guest post at VA Joe is up. One of the bigger adjustments I had to make once arriving in Iraq was working seven days a week. I'm not used to the whole weekend thing as all my extra time ...
1LT Kile West, Fallen Hero
Sunday, June 10th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 2 Comments »Miss Ladybug, one of the readers here at ASP with her own blog, wrote of the funeral of one of our finest. God bless you, 1LT West. As luck would have it, the date the family selected for Kile's funeral (6/9 ...
General Peter Pace to be Replaced
Friday, June 8th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | 6 Comments »I'm not very pleased with this news. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he will recommend to President Bush that he nominate Adm. Michael G. Mullen to replace Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...
Hello, NewsBusters Readers
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 Posted in Marcus' War Journal | No Comments »I've been a big fan of NewBusters for quite some time. I don't remember how long ago I added them to the RSS Reader, but it was a good add. It is always fun to laugh at the media, and ...
