Nov 30th, 2007
A few months have passed since my last post about the candidates. Attacks have flown back and forth. So, here are a few more thoughts.
Shouldn’t every single candidate now and in the future resolve to never, EVER show up for a YouTube debate?
Rudy was the mayor of a huge city. The priorities of a mayor, [...]
Baldwin said he was happy to get the medal. But at the same time, he doesn’t want to be called a hero.
“No one wants to stand out and be recognized like this when we’re still at war,” he said, reserving the hero title for those still in Iraq.
Silver Star – possible Medal of Honor candidate?
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Buelow will be presented this award for actions against intense direct small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire in Baghdad, Iraq July 9, 2006 during an attack from numerous insurgents. He led Operational Detachment Alpha 065 and 44 Iraqi Special Operations Forces during a raid that saw [...]
You didn’t read it in the papers but our military is providing assistance in Bangladesh after their latest flooding storm.
BARISAL, Bangladesh (Nov. 27, 2007) U.S. Marine Corporal Laura Buckingham, of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (Special Operations Capable), which is currently attached to amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), poses with children from [...]
Staff Sgt. Jessica Lehmann (right), postal supervisor with 4th Platoon, 111th Postal Company, out of Vilseck, Germany, receives an Army Commendation Medal, Iraqi campaign ribbon and the Global War on Terrorism service ribbon for her service in Iraq over the past 12 months. When asked what she looks forward to most upon return to Germany, [...]
Since the odds were long that a bad thing would happen, I was not worried. Well, no more than usual. I snuck a couple of additional air bottles and some combat rats onboard, finding places behind the wall plates that were empty enough to hold them. I also added some computing power, borrowing an officer’s [...]
CJTF-82
21 November 2007
Khost Women: More Than Wives and Mothers in Khost Province. The Department of Women’s Affairs held a Ceremony today at the Khost City Girl’s School Campus to recognize the completion of two projects. Over the last three months, 220 families led by widowed mothers, received the training and resources necessary to raise laying [...]
CJTF-82
A representative from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) visited the Gardez Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) to deliver a brief on the closure of the Jalozai Refugee Camp in Pakistan. The Jalozai camp will be closing in March 2008. The returnees will be processed at the UNHCR, Gardez Encashment Center were they will [...]
There must be quite a backstory in this bit from the Navy.
Lt. Cmdr. William B. Krissoff, a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in trauma and sports medicine, is officially commissioned as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps at his home. Krissoff’s oldest son 1st Lt. Nathan M. Krissoff was killed in lraq [...]