Recent content by LineDoggie

I thought he was a prisoner of the Japanese?

Really?  generalize much? and the view that John MCCain was ineligible since he was born in Panama that was racist as well when the Dems put it forth?? This all started when Hillary Clintons Campaign staffer Phillip Berg Esq. filed suit

Umm, had 2 Canadians with Dual Citizenship in my Infantry company in Baghdad. and as for security clearances, that might work for Pvt to SPC. but to become an NCO your going to need to have one. We had them for every 11B in the Bn.

Indeed, they are. Are homosexuals being rounded up and taken away to be shot? sent to camps? or are they allowed to voice their opposition? We dont allow many categories to Serve: Overweight/Underweight Drug Dependence History of Psychotic Disorders Questionable Moral Character Sexual...

When I was a Joe at Ft. Hood, TX from 1982 to 1984 we swept, mopped, waxed(with both G.I and Johnsons Paste) the Common Areas and our rooms M-F. Those on extra duty from UCMJ punishment handled the Common Areas on weekends. We didnt have KP in Garrision though, that was mainly Civvie dependents...

Terrorists?

Sad to say but I have been shot at by Fellow G.I.'s. Myself, my Cdr and Several Iraqi Special Police got lower than our buttons one night due to a 3rd ID LMTV truck firing his .50 down Rte. Irish to clear traffic in 2005. The Idiot had no idea friendlies were ahead of him, much less the...

Career Over and rightly so. You dont get to demand your company commander show his commissioning papers before obeying his orders. You dont walk up to your 1SG and say "Top, I aint gonna do this detail until I see your ANCOC graduation certificate" The Military doesnt work that way. One less...

Some of the things people who rave over BoB need to remember. BoB was about 1 Rifle company of the 506th from Training to V-J day and mostly about Dick Winters. This is about 3 main characters who likely never met  during the war from 2 different Regiments, and one wasnt in combat till 44. I...

Y'all are going to love the Peleliu sequences. Look for Sledges Gunnery Sergeant on Pavuvu, makes Lee Ermey look like a schoolgirl and is based on a real vet. Elmo M. Haney, veteran of the 5th Marines and Bellau Wood.

He was a National Guardsman from the 9th Corps area. HQTRS Presidio of SF. Units from WA, OR, CA, ID, MT, NV, UT, AK fell under it's administrative command. Tetanus series 1942 Blood Type A He was a Member of the 41st infantry Division, from one of these units: HQ 41st Infantry Division...

SPC. Jonathon Keller, Co. B. 69th Infantry Regiment (NYARNG) Died of Wounds 24 January, 2009 at Ft. Braggs Womack Army Hospital He was wounded by small arms fire on April 25th, 2008 in Kunar Province Afghanistan while on a Joint Patrol with Afghan Border Police Forces. Hit by a 7.62x54R...

I'll be honest with you. Kimberly Rivera will never see the inside of US Disciplinary Barracks, Ft. Leavenworth(Something she richly deserves). There are no longer any Post Stockades and even Charlies Chicken Farms  (Correctional Custody Facility) have been closed down. She will be held at her...

We just had Our Boys return home yesterday from Afghanistan: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-webfite0812339156jan07,0,4749729.story The Company Commander is the father of 8 children and has served in Iraq as an Infantry Platoon Leader on previous tour (OIF II). Many of these Men...

Gee, what a surprise, a war criminal saying he didnt do it.