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Memorial Day, One speech that sums it up for me

Thursday, May 24th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 11 Comments »

http://mmanetcom.marineclub.com/Kelly2012 Folks forget why they get to grill out and have a day off. LtGen John Kelly really makes it clear. To all those friends/family who have paid the ultimate price in service of our country past-present.  I have to say ...

The Mental Health of Military Children by Emily Isenberger

Thursday, May 17th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 3 Comments »

The Mental Health of Military ChildrenChildren of active duty service members often face unique problems when a parent deploys, particularly when it comes to mental and emotional well-being. While mental health issues certainly do not affect all military children, recent ...

Vote for your favorite MilBlog

Thursday, April 19th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »

Guys, It's that time for you to vote for your favorite Mil blog.  I have made the list as a finalist this year which is a great honor and won this award a few years ago which was a blast too.  ...

WWII BUFFS AND WINGED ONES

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 3 Comments »

I love this stuff.  Like Vince Lewis and his lost tanks, David Cundall spent 15 years searching for hidden treasure in Burma...buried Spitfires from WWII.  Here is a great piece on this and then some wonderful facts about WWII that ...

This week’s Poser Roundups…

Friday, April 6th, 2012 Posted in Military, The SandGram v1.0 | 26 Comments »

      You guys know my disdain for Posers and there are a ton of them out there recently. The first is this incredibly fat “Master Gunnery Sgt."  Who has every award known to man plus he’s a Navy SEAL.  I’m thinking more ...

Michael Yon, Sad, Sad Man

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 10 Comments »

Michael Yon, shame on you. You are going out of your way to slander this Soldier, CJ Grisham, with your nonsense. I sure wish you would come back to the US,  if only so you could get what you deserve ...

Carroll “Lex” LeFon, you are cleared due West…

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 7 Comments »

Roger that, Lex, you are cleared Due West… Yesterday, we lost a great Naval Aviator and fellow Milblogger who had the ability to express flight and the emotions of being one with the air that I would say he was a ...

Hollywood just died this week…

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 3 Comments »

Hollywood just died this week…  Can you imagine the Monday morning studio meeting that just occurred? Everyone in the room, sitting around reading the tallies of their efforts only to find out that a low budget, Pro- American, Pro-Military movie about ...

Act of Valor…Best Damn Movie going

Sunday, February 26th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Act of Valor…Best Damn Movie going   O.K., if I could could turn back the fast hands of time to a period in my life, to say age 17, I would do that in a heartbeat.  Why? So that a skinny, Cross ...

Staff Job in the Stans.

Monday, February 20th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

All, this comes from my buddy, Mr. Wolf and we are trying to get this info out to some of our vets who have experience over in the Stans and want this staff job... I have a job posting I'd like ...