Repatriating the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) to the US.

So, what do Jonah Goldberg, torpedoes, Destroyers, Mexico, and I have in common?

Click here to find out.

The Armorer goes adventuring!

I'm also shilling for links to the posts documenting the return of the Rodgers. Mr. Ward Brewer, the leader of our merry band, wants this story to be spread by the blogosphere, and is eschewing the MSM (we are bringing a documentary film crew).

If you'd like to be on the distro list for the posts related to this project, drop me a line at johnbethd*at*yahoo.com and I'll add you to the distro. Anyone - not just milbloggers!

I'm also looking for bloggers near Mobile, Alabama who would be able to be there 15-18 August when the Rodgers is expected to arrive. You could score a trip out on the Coast Guard cutter with her former crew members who are going out to meet her when she arrives.

A Sophisticated Attack

Here's one for the water-borne MILBLOGGERS...

Austin Bay posts some expert military analysis on the recent attack on the Israeli corvette, INS Ahi-Hanit, enlisting Kirk Spencer and Trent Telenko, who’s analysis Bay compiles in this report. Here’s a summary of the discussion.

Calling all JAGs: campaigning in uniform

I need a read here, because from my ‘lil brain – this isn’t kosher.

1. You were a 3-star, but you were fired by your boss and retired before you had enough time in to retire as a 3-star...therefore, you were retired as a 2-star.

2. Problem 1: You are in a Memorial Day Parade in full uniform wearing 3-stars. (see TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART II > CHAPTER 45 § 772(c).

3. At the same time, you are running for the U.S. House of Representatives.

4. Problem 2: You make a speech after the parade, in uniform.

Questions. Is he out of line 0, 1, or 2 ways….or more? Is he unquestionably in violation of one or more USC, walking the line, or safely inside the lines? From here, at the least, it just looks ugly (..and am I out of line asking a retired Flag Officer if he is out of his mind...rhetorically of course).

Another Rave Review for THE WAR TAPES

This time from CBS and The Weekly Standard....

By Michael Fumento, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and a former paratrooper, embedded twice in the Sunni Triangle:

I've been over there doing my own war taping and he's right. The movie is a desperately-needed antidote to the mainstream media-produced baloney broadcast daily into our homes that rarely includes anything but (1) bombs exploding in Baghdad; (2) bombs exploding in Baghdad; and above all (3) bombs exploding in Baghdad.

The whole review HERE

and while you're on that page, check out the 2 minute video of Lucien Read discussing his time photographing the Marines entitled, "A Marine's Life in Iraq"

CNN's very strange day with Hezbollah

Charlie Moore, a CNN Senior Producer, has a blog entry about a "tour" given to western journalists by Hezbollah... Quite an interesting little story... but no surprise to many who read here at MILBLOGS...

12:50 p.m.: Anderson is doing a few more stand-ups about our story that's quickly become less about Hezbollah and more about their crude propaganda machine when the "family" emerges from the bunker behind us and joins their friends in the street. They're laughing, talking loudly, and gesturing with their hands, mocking anger. I really should learn Arabic. Anderson does another stand-up about the group now standing behind us.

12:55 p.m.: We pile into our van and are now driving out of the Hezbollah-controlled neighborhood. It feels like we've just left a haunted house: Slightly frightening at first, but ridiculous by the end.

You should rad the whole blog entry... HERE

and don't forget to browse the comments left... some are just truly unbelievable...

Redeploy Murtha

Andi over at Andi's World has a great little intro (and links) to the DC Freepers taking on Murtha and the moonbat crowd... Buzz on by...