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It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time -- Screamin' Eagle Edition
A Top Sekrit photo representative of the extensive testing the Army Combat Uniform went through has been released by the New York Times.
Hey - one thing's for sure... the ACU works in an urban environment!
H/t, Mike L.
Shelby Steele concludes a thoughtful piece at the Opinion Journal of the Wall Street Journal today...
For every reason, from the humanitarian to the geopolitical to the military, Iraq is a war that America must win in the hegemonic, even colonial, sense. It is a test of our civilization's commitment to the good against the alluring notion of menace-as-power that has gripped so much of the Muslim world. Today America is a danger to the world in its own right, not because we are a powerful bully but because we don't fully accept who we are. We rush to war as a superpower protecting the world from menace, then leave the battle before winning as a show of what, humility? We confuse our enemies, discouraging them one minute and encouraging them the next.Could it be that our enemies are really paper tigers made formidable by our unceasing ambivalence? And could it be that the greater good is in both the idea and the reality of American victory?
You should read the whole thing HERE
The U.S. Army has a program in place that allows Soldiers (active-duty, Guard, Reserves) to send a special "thank you" to those who have supported them (spouse, parent, employer). It's free, take advantage of it.
Not sure if the other branches have a similar program. If so, let me know and I'll update the post.
When I saw this it jogged my memory a bit. Finally, I remembered Anecdote #243 [Frank Wilkerson] of the Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes:
I've asked that Mudville be removed from the military blogs category of the weblog awards. Hopefully that will happen ASAP. Thought I'd better explain that before folks started wondering why I vanished.
I've always been strongly opposed to "competitive milblogging." I'm never going to send a message to a troop in Iraq or Afghanistan that some guy blogging from his home office has a better blog than his, and I can't stomach the thought of folks at home voting for their favorite deployed blogger as if troops in Iraq are in some kind of effing beauty pageant.
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