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MAIG Cooridinators Paid as City Employees
Robin Gibbs Dead
Donna Summer - Dead at 63
Vidal Sassoon assumes room temperature
A final grand but sad salute to US space supremacy
Dick Clark - who's got him?
Only in Wisconsin: Drunk 80 Year Old Hits Beer Truck
Anybody have Mike Wallace?
PTSD Awareness Day
(Guest post by LC Draco)
Yesterday, 27 June 2011, was Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day.
Why is it important? Most of us who remember seeing the movie “Patton”, remember him slapping a soldier who had ‘battle fatigue’. Back then, and until a couple of years ago, PTSD/battle fatigue/shell shock had a stigma of weakness. I refused to be diagnosed several years ago with PTSD due to that stigma (That refusal changed last year). Even the military now is changing their mentality. One study has reported that 1 in 6 soldiers returning from Iraq and/or Afghanistan will be diagnosed with PTSD. The issue is it affects not just the soldier, but family and friends, who are usually the first to notice the symptoms.
Now, however, there are actual medical testing that can be done to see chemical changes in the brain during repeated stressful/traumatic situations and events.
Please take a minute and look here for the National Center for PTSD to be better acquainted with the program.
Observation Point Restrepo
(Guest post by LC Draco)
The unit -- 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (ABN), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
For those of you unaware of the name and the story, it is an outpost named after one of the first soldiers killed at that outpost in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan (The Korengal Valley was regarded as “the deadliest place on Earth”). The story is about the soldiers who went in and set up an outpost in the middle of the night and how they fought to keep it!
If you have not seen the movie…GET IT, WATCH IT, then WATCH IT AGAIN!! It is an emotional, fierce and in-your-face documentary. It received the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. (One of the directors, Tim Hetherington, was the photojournalist killed in Libya on 20 April, 2011).
But now…to the trailer at the official web site. It is a peek into one OP of many and what some of our soldiers go through every day.
R.I.P. PFC Restrepo and your brothers that died there with you. You and your brethren display the TRUE American soldier!!
LC Draco
UPDATE:
Restrepo, A Year In Afghanistan is going to be shown on National Geographic channel Monday 25 April at 9pm, Eastern.
Coffee is Absolute
Because real men take bullets with their coffee.
Language warning:extremely NSFW!!! 
The Coveted Black and Gold
Guest post by LC Draco.
There Are Signs Everywhere
Yesterday, I was taking the kids out for dinner, and Eldest brought up a group whose music she and her brother enjoy. I was tickled by the band’s name, Five Finger Death Punch, and we were talking about the origins of the name, and the movies where we had heard the term. She came home, and pulled up YouTube for a bit, to listen to it. As I sat there, listening to it, I started thinking of those far away from us, doing a job some Americans are too bitter to do. And my heart hurt.
This morning I find a YouTube link in my email. Same group, same song, and my heart broke all over again:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBMT3OMEPwk
Thanks to LC Draco.
John Kerry Digs to Egypt
From The Hill:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) urged Egyptian protesters to follow the examples of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. in demonstrating against the Cairo regime.
Ok, there’s a whole lot of WTF here. First of all, Ghandi was Hindu, and was a devout believer in non-violent means of change. He starved himself to make a point, for goodness’ sake. Second of all, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Christian, and also espoused peaceful revolt. He wasn’t a saint, by any means, but he was devoted to a peaceful cause and inspired many in that path.
But the most egregious WTF here is, both men were ASSASSINATED!!!!
And John Effin’ Kerry wants the Egyptians to emulate them??
I got one thing to say to Senator Kerry:
On Veterans’ Day
Words are never enough to convey thanks to all who served and continue to serve our great nation.
Four days ago, I learned of the death of a friend. Gene was a great guy. He served honorably and with pride in the U.S. Army, serving a tour of duty in Iraq from 2004-05. He retired as a Sergeant First Class, but continued to work for the service as a systems administrator at Carlisle Barracks Army War College. He was admired, and loved, and will be missed by many. I shall endeavor to remember him, and all my veteran friends today. I will never forget.
Draw Pisslamic Mooslim Day
Obviously I am no artist. But I just had to participate. Check out Lemur King’s contribution, as well as Enas Yorl’s artistic rendition.
Let me know if any fatwas are handed out.
UPDATE: Because this is a distasteful subject, I shall reward you with this: (more…)
PowerPoint Hell
Seriously, this is what the Armed Forces have to deal with on almost a daily basis. No, not the Afghan hell described above. That they can handle. I mean the PowerPoint presentations. This was an attempt to explain what is going on on the ground!! I don’t know about y’all, but this is almost like a Dungeons and Dragons map to me. I bet the Armed Forces would probably understand a D&D map better than they would THIS. The good news is, the islamofascist terrorists can’t understand it, either. Sheesh…….
I Want This Poster….
This pretty much sums it up for me 
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