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News: Archivist details the lives of soldiers

Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 03:19 AM - News Stories Archivist wants every soldier?s story told. On Thursday night, Bert Riggs, archivist for the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives at Memorial University, detailed the lives of five of those men, including their contributions to the war and their lives afterward, if they survived.? In riveting detail, he discussed the short life of Pte. Hugh Walter McWhirter, the first member of the regiment to be killed in action...
(The Telegram)

Egypt blogger Maikel Nabil calls military ?killers? on war anniversary. CAIRO: Outspoken Egyptian blogger and anti-military commentator Maikel Nabil lashed out at the armed forces on Saturday, the anniversary of the 1973 war with Israel, referring to the military as ?killers? in comments that sparked controversy in the country.? Most of Egypt refers to the October 6 War as a victory, which saw late President Anwar el-Sadat able to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel and return the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian rule.? But Nabil, who has faced off with the military before ? seeing him jailed for months ? refused to praise the military on the 39th anniversary...
(Bikya Masr)

'Iron Man 3' searches for military extras. WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- Have a military or law enforcement background? You may be the perfect extra for upcoming scenes in "Iron Man 3".? Tona B. Dahlquist Casting company is searching for men between ages 20 and 40 to work on-set Oct. 27 and Oct. 29. Applicants with the neccessary background and appearance should be available for a costume fitting Oct. 17...
(WWAY NewsChannel3)

Determined genealogists work together to solve Civil War mystery. SPOKANE, Wash. ? An honor guard made up of Confederate and Union Civil War re-enactors fires a salute during the dedication of the final resting place of Confederate soldier Pvt. Hugh McLaughlin in Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery on Saturday.? One mystery surrounding Pvt. Hugh McLaughlin was recently solved.? For 106 years, the Confederate soldier's body lay in an unmarked grave in Spokane's Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery...
(The Republic)

Photograph exhibit brings Civil War 'to our doorsteps' at Pry House Field Hospital Museum. During October 150 years ago, people lined the street outside a New York gallery to see something the likes of which they had never seen before.? Inside were images of corpses captured just moments after battle hundreds of miles away at a place called Antietam. Photographer Alexander Gardner had shot the merciless photos about a month earlier for gallery owner Matthew Brady.? Reproductions of those portraits are among the artifacts anchoring the exhibit ?Bringing the Story of War to Our Doorsteps,? which opened Saturday at the Pry House Field Hospital Museum at Antietam National Battlefield...
(herald-mail.com)

Stories in stone: Messages lost as gravemarkers fade. The bloody Battle of Perryville occurred 150 years ago, but Pete Skelly told the story as if it happened last week.? Skelly stood at the grave of Capt. George Bently of Janesville. It was one of three Civil War veterans? graves Skelly showed to visitors Saturday during the Rock County Historical Society?s annual tour of Oak Hill Cemetery.? Bently, a Chicago & Northwestern railroad agent in civilian life, became commander of Company H of the 21st Wisconsin. The unit comprised many Janesville men who had little training before the battle, Skelly said...
(GazetteXtra)

Facebook helps save the life of a soldier

Monday, October 8, 2012, 02:01 PM - News Stories, Facebook Via DVIDS:

FORT MCCOY, Wis. -- Facebook is often criticized in the military for enabling operational security leaks, but recently it proved that it can also help save lives.

Facebook posts give soldiers a look into their battle buddies daily lives when they are not able to see each other every day. It is especially helpful when soldiers fear the stigma associated with asking for help during difficult times in their lives.

?Technology is not always the answer and creates its own set of challenges, but it can be a great tool, it can be a great help,? said Col. Robert J. Carlson, commander of the 646th Regional Support Group, headquartered in Madison, Wis.

?There?s no way I could have found him if it weren?t for Facebook,? said 1st Sgt. Roe.

U.S. Army Reserve 1st Sgt. Roe recently received an email from one of his soldiers before drill weekend; this email was a goodbye letter from a soldier that thought he had nothing to live for.

Immediately Roe attempted to contact Spc. Myer by phone; the phone numbers on record were turned off. He then called police from the soldier?s hometown to find him; Myer?s dad had recently kicked him out of the house. No one knew where he was.
Full story here.

Crowd funding site helps war artist to embed

Sunday, October 7, 2012, 08:20 PM - Afghanistan Military Bloggers

Indiegogo

Crowd funding website Indiegogo was founded in 2008 and claims to have hosted over 100,000 funding campaigns.

The site helps charities, small businesses, musicians and more pursue their passions --- and now it can add war reporter.

As I wrote about last month, Rob Bates, a former Marine and war artist, will be going to Afghanistan this December and embedding with a Marine platoon.

He launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign to help pay for expenses associated with embedding.? He?met his goal of $5,000.

Although I've never used a crowd funding site myself, I've seen quite a bit of news over the last couple years.

It's good to see that Rob Bates' plans for embedding in Afghanistan are moving along nicely.

Over 80 people helped fund the "Sketching the Drawdown" campaign.

If you're not familiar with Rob's work, it's amazing.

You can follow Rob on his blog at www.rb-portraits.com

News: German Army condems 'rape' music video

Saturday, October 6, 2012, 11:25 PM - News Stories Army outraged by 'rape' music video. The German army has condemned a new music video by pop singer Joachim Witt that depicts Bundeswehr soldiers raping a woman in an unnamed future conflict.? The video for the song "Gloria" purports to show an "apocalyptic horror scenario in grand and challenging images," the 63-year-old Witt said on his Facebook page.? One scene shows a group of soldiers in Bundeswehr combat uniforms, with their military insignia visible, holding down a woman on a table while one of them rapes her. One soldier is filming it on a smartphone.? Scenes later in the video show that a young girl who witnessed the event has been shot...
(The Local)

Army troops executed - September 8 (GRAPHIC). Two videos have emerged that appear to show about 20 executed Syrian army troops on a street in Aleppo. The first of the videos was uploaded to a Facebook page belonging to the Salman Al Farisi battalion of the Free Syrian Army. It first appeared on September 8 and stated that the security forces had been killed by the battalion. It was then also published on a similar named YouTube channel...
(Storyful)

China's Latest Export: Journalists. Since Wang Guan arrived in the U.S. from Beijing in February, the correspondent for state-owned China Central Television embedded with the U.S. Navy and broadcast live from the Republican and Democratic conventions. ?It?s exciting

???to observe democracy in action,? he says.? Guan is one of 100 journalists who CCTV has put to work in Washington, D.C., this year. He and a few dozen colleagues send dispatches in Mandarin to 42 channels back home, while 60 others produce business and news-magazine shows for a new English-language channel...
(BusinessWeek)

Reporter slain in Syria honored with rights award. An American journalist killed in Syria while reporting for a British newspaper has been honored with a human rights award.? The 56-year-old Marie Colvin was killed Feb. 22 when Syrian army shelling struck the building that served as a makeshift media center in Homs. She was reporting for the Sunday Times of London.? Colvin was named Friday as this year's recipient of the Anna Politkovskaya Award for dedicating her life to reporting from nearly every major conflict in recent history...
(NBC29)

SKorean torture film raises ghost of military past. A film based on the memoir of a democracy activist who was tortured in the 1980s by South Korea's military rulers is provoking discussion about the country's not-so-distant authoritarian past and the influence it will have on this year's presidential election. "National Security," which premieres Saturday at the Busan International Film Festival, tells the story of Kim Geun-tae, who endured 22 days of torture in a notorious Seoul interrogation room because of alleged links to North Korea and a plot to overthrow South Korea's military regime...
(SFGate)??????

Irish documentary capture the story of the American Civil War?s first casualty.? One of the most asked questions of American Civil War enthusiasts across the States is ?Who was the first casualty?? The answer, that ?it was a Private Daniel Hough from some unknown part of Co Tipperary in Ireland,? usually comes as a surprise to many.? Although he has long been forgotten in his native land and information on him in the States has always been sketchy, what is known is that after emigrating to the New World in 1849, Hough enlisted in the US Army some months later and was posted at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina in April 1861 when the war broke out...
(Irish Central)

Female Army vet shares stories from World War II. It's been almost 70 years since a young New York City woman traveled from Brooklyn to Manhattan and enlisted in the U.S. Army. But for Florence "Flo" Miles, 90 and now living in Hagerstown, the memories are still vivid.? Especially when she pages through her scrapbooks and talks about her brother, Cpl. Russell Daudelin, who died a few months after America entered World War II...
(Herald-Mail)

Red Bull Rising milblog wins Blogging Award

Friday, October 5, 2012, 11:31 PM

Congratulations are in order for Randy Brown (known as Charlie Sherpa online) of the military blog Red Bull Rising who won the 2012 blogging award by the Military Reporters & Editors Association.

MRE had this to say about Brown:

?Randy Brown clearly is not one of those bloggers who sits at home in his pajamas. You?ll find the 20-year Iowa Army National Guardsman-turned-civilian journalist out in the community ? and out on the battlefield in Afghanistan. In his entries ? one chronicling a homecoming for troops and the second, an embed in Afghanistan ? Brown showed he?s a down-home storyteller and conversationalist. You could almost hear him talking to you as you read. He had a wry, friendly, sometimes corny sense of humor, a deft touch for detail; insider insight and knowledge; a tender touch with conveying emotion without getting sappy; and a way of getting to the bottom of things.?

The awards, for work published or aired in 2011, will be presented at the 2012 MRE Conference on Oct. 19 in Washington, D.C.

For a full list of awards, go to MilitaryReporters.org.

To learn more about Brown and Red Bull Rising, go to RedBullRising.com.

Army Wife Blogger Going Naked for the Cause

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 08:10 PM - News Stories This is a wonderful story about Rachel Kenyon, a writer, a mom, an Army wife, and an advocate for military families dealing with autism.? And as babble blogger Joslyn Gray writes, Kenyon is also about to "GO NAKED FOR THE CAUSE!" and shave her head in support of her sister-in-law who is battling cancer.

?Rachel is planning on shaving her head in an effort to support her sister-in-law, currently battling breast cancer, both emotionally and financially. She?s vowed to shave her head once she?s raised $1,000, and share photos and video of the ?Naked Noggin Party? with the world.?

Rachel is the author of StimCity, a blog that covers a wide range of topics including military.?

According to her site, her husband is an active duty, 25-year veteran of the US Army.? He currently serves as Command Sergeant Major in an Infantry Battalion.

To learn more about Rachel, you can visit her at StimCity.org

More at babble.

News: Gay military share their DADT stories

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 03:00 PM - News Stories Members of America's Gay Military Share Their Stories of Living With "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". Philadelphia resident Josh Seefried graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2009. While serving his first two years as an active-duty officer under the military?s ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? policy, he assumed a pseudonym to found OutServe, an online networking organization that allowed LGBT troops to support one another without risking exposure. His book Our Time, newly released in paperback, collects the stories of fellow airmen, soldiers, sailors and marines forced to struggle with maintaining their commitment to an ideal of integrity, under rules that demanded they not be true to themselves. In celebration of October as LGBT History Month, PW presents an excerpt this week...
(Philadelphia Weekly)

Military wives going bare to battle PTSD. A group of military wives are taking a head-turning approach to help combat a crisis.? They are going bare to raise awareness about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the need for treatment.? It all started with just one picture and a Facebook post, and within months the movement included hundreds of women from around the world taking off their tops to "Battle Bare."
(wcsh6)

Military should have told soldier's family about suicide note: The former national chief of the Canadian Forces' detective agency told a federal inquiry Tuesday that investigators probing the 2008 suicide of Afghanistan veteran Stuart Langridge didn't tell him that the troubled soldier had left a suicide note.? And in the most direct criticism yet levelled against the National Investigation Ser-vice investigators by a superior officer, retired Lt.-Col. William Garrick told the Military Police Complaints Commission inquiry that it was wrong to keep contents of the note from Langridge's mother and stepfather to whom it was ad-dressed.? In the simple handwritten note, Langridge asked for a private, family funeral...
(Montreal Gazette)

A diary taken in war, offered in peace. The little red book sat untouched in a porcelain bowl for at least 35 years.? #What will go down in history in the first exchange of soldiers' artifacts between the U.S. and Vietnamese governments last summer was possible largely because Walla Walla resident Bob Frazure didn't know what else to do with that red booklet.? #He realized early on it was a diary after stuffing it into his shirt on the grisly battlefield in North Vietnam in 1966. There was a picture of two girls tucked safely in its pages, scrawls on the pages in a language he couldn't understand...
(Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

Smartphones to steer unmanned rotorcraft on the battlefield. ?The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Aurora Flight Sciences on Sept. 28 to develop robotic rotorcraft capable of supporting rapid autonomous aerial cargo delivery to the battlefield. The system would support Navy and Marine Corps units under hostile conditions and could be operated by any warfighter on the ground with a smartphone-like device. "AACUS responds to warfighter needs derived from our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Mike Deitchman, who heads ONR's Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department. "We are trying to develop an autonomous system to deliver supplies to the battlefront more quickly?and to get our vehicle convoys off dangerous roads, where they're much more vulnerable to attack."
(Phys.org)

Video Offers Glimpses of Tehran Protests. Iranian journalists and bloggers working from outside the country shared video and photographs posted online by people who said they witnessed Wednesday?s protests in Tehran?s commercial center.? A reporter for the BBC?s Persian-language service, Rana Rahimpour, pointed to video uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday morning, showing protesters marching into the bazaar, chanting, ?Dignified merchants, support us, support us.?
(The Lede)

'Unbroken' POW describes dramatic life story on USS Hornet. Mighty forces arrive in large and small packages, a truth never more profoundly evident than at the Lazarex Cancer Foundation's "Battle for a Lifetime" gala.? Making his way on Saturday across the vast expanse of the USS Hornet's hangar bay, Louis Zamperini, the 95-year-old World War II prisoner of war survivor whose life became the subject of author Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times bestseller, "Unbroken," appeared tiny.? But his dramatic story, told by "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon in a 30-minute video played before his introduction as the headline speaker, formed a towering example of fortitude and forgiveness...
(San Jose Mercury News)

The Thunder Run milblog featured in the news

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 08:32 PM - Milbloggers in the News Michael Tomberlin, a business reporter with The Birmingham News and major in the Alabama Army National Guard, is currently deployed to Afghanistan and writing a military blog that is featured on AL.com called Yellowhammering Afghanistan.

A couple weeks ago, Tomberlin highlighted military blogs in a story for The Birmingham News.

Now, in his latest story, Tomberlin is featuring David M's military blog The Thunder Run.

I had the opportunity to first meet David and his family years ago after returning home from my first deployment.? While I haven?t seen him for awhile, if you don?t know David, he?s been very active in the military blogging community over the last several years and he?s also one of the nicest guys.?

Here's just a little of what Tomberlin had to say about his blog The Thunder Run:

?The Thunder Run is the single best source to capture the best of other milblogs in addition to news releases and other stories devoted to the military, war and conquest. It aggregates the best of what is out there and puts it all in one place, sort of like a military Drudge Report.

I first learned of The Thunder Run during my last deployment when the site did an interview with me about my blog. It then became must-see reading ever since. I checked the site every day during my last deployment and on and off in between then and now.?
To follow Tomberlin read more of his latest story, go here.

To visit The Thunder Run go to http://www.thunderrun.us/

Army Strong Stories celebrates Hispanic Heritage

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 07:41 PM

Army Strong Stories?is highlighting blog posts and video stories from Hispanic Soldiers in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Hispanic Heritage Month, which has been underway since September 15 and runs through October 15, celebrates the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

I received a tip earlier today informing me ArmyStrongStories.com was celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month on its website.?

Throughout the year, the site runs different targeted campaigns ? for example, in April, it celebrated Diversity Month.

If you?d like to learn more, you can quickly view posts, read stories and watch videos from Hispanic soldiers by going to http://armystrongstories.com/tag/hispanic/

In one video story called ?Representing Hispanics and the United States at LULAC,? Chief Warrant Officer 2 Edwin Reyes explains how playing and traveling with the Army Band?s ?All Latin Ensemble? allows him to represent Hispanics across the world and the United States at the same time.

In another video story posted back in June, Cadet Daniel Cortes reflects on his family?s history and his decision to attend West Point in his story ?Serving to Give Back for the Freedom My Family Has Received.?

Much more over at Army Strong Stories.

News: Diary by WWI soldier's mother digitized

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 07:11 PM - News Stories Digitised diary of mother of a First World War soldier preserved online.? A digitised diary written in 1916 offering a candid and poignant insight into the life of families of Irish soldiers during the First World War and the turbulent events of the 1916 Rising has gone live.? The Diary A Family at War: Mary Martin?s Diary, 1 January ? 25 May 1916 is an online resource developed and produced by students on Trinity College Dublin?s M Phil in Digital Humanities and Culture, and the Digital Arts and Humanities PhD in UCC, using a manuscript treasure from the collections of the National Library of Ireland...
(Silicon Republic)Analysts Say Video of American Held in Syria May Have Been Staged. Video posted on YouTube five days ago, apparently showing a missing American journalist in the hands of jihadist captors in Syria, may have been staged to discredit the armed opposition to the Syrian government, according to several analysts who viewed the clip on Monday.? The reporter, Austin Tice, left the United States Marine Corps last year and has been contributing freelance articles to two American newspaper companies, McClatchy and The Washington Post, and other outlets since he smuggled himself into Syria from Turkey in May...
(The Lede)

Google search reveals true identity of suspect in Navy charity scam. ?A bored U.S. marshal using Google connected an alleged scam artist arrested this year under an alias to a lawyer who disappeared decades ago before he was indicted on federal fraud charges.? The suspect in a fake charity scam that stole millions in donations intended for Navy veterans is also wanted by the FBI for questioning in a spy case, federal officials said.? When U.S. marshals arrested "Bobby Thompson" five months ago, they said they knew he was using a fake name. He's been held in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, jail since then...
(CNN)

Lecturer Hari Jones shares seldom-told history of Civil War. Hari Jones captivated the standing room-only audience at the Cape Fear Regional Theatre on Monday night with the untold historical stories about African-American involvement in the Civil War.? Jones, the assistant director and curator of the African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation and Museum, was presented by The Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex Foundation...
(FayObserver.com)

Moore Family Warns Of Scam Artist Posing As U.S. Army Soldier. MOORE, Oklahoma - A metro family sent out a warning Monday night about a scam artist pretending to be a member of the United States Army. The person who claimed to be a serviceman sent Dee and Gene Gibson an email that asked them to help move a large amount of money into the U.S.? "I don't like the military being used," said Dee Gibson, who has seen scams before, but thought it was one went to a new low.? When Dee Gibson opened up the email, she knew something was wrong because it was full of spelling and wording mistakes...
(News9)

The U.S. Army discusses "Bad Social Media"

Monday, October 1, 2012, 09:59 PM

The Army recently posted a presentation to slideshare called Bad Social Media as part of its Social Media Roundup series.

In a nutshell, there are 7 things that the Army thinks can negatively affect your audience and your organization?s reputation.?

The Army even admits it's guilty of some, like, the social media ghost ship, which is basically creating a presence online?such as?a Facebook page, but never ever posting to it.

Here?s a look at the things to avoid, according to the Army:

#1: Over posting or over Tweeting
#2: Topic overload
#3: Failure to engage
#4: Social media ghost ships
#5: Negative engagement
#6: All vegetables and no dessert
#7: Too much self promotion

The real message here is don?t copy what Kim Kardashian does with social media.

View the slideshow here.

News: One Fallen Soldier's Story (VIDEO)

Monday, October 1, 2012, 06:33 PM - News Stories

2,000 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan: one soldier's story.? After 11 years of war, an AP count shows the U.S. military death toll in Afghanistan has reached 2,000. The AP's Sagar Meghani tells the story of one soldier killed there, and the woman who had planned on spending her life with him...
(The Globe and Mail)

Wartime diary leads to international exchange. Any sense of ownership vanished the second Republic resident Marge Garner opened up the 46-year-old diary for the first time back in February. A black-and-white photo of two Vietnamese girls fell out from between the pages into her lap.? ?After I got my composure regained, I said, ?We have to find out if these children are alive and if we can get to them,?? Garner said.? She found out all that and more. Garner?s diary, which contained the wartime account of a North Vietnamese soldier killed in action in 1966, ended up being part of an international exchange involving U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta after she reached out to a PBS show for help...
(Springfield News-Leader)

Spy App Can Turn Smartphones Against You.? The smartphone in your hands could get hijacked and used as an accessory to virtual burglary. U.S. military researchers have created a mobile app that creates 3D maps of a phone's immediate surroundings, possibly allowing spies or criminals to steal personal information and "download" the physical space to prepare for a break-in.? Such a troubling scenario comes from the "PlaceRaider" app that could disguise itself as an ordinary camera app for Android phones, according to researchers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Ind. and Indiana University in Bloomington.? The app sneakily uses the phone camera to take new images, while also collecting orientation data from the phone's accelerometer, the device that flips your screen horizontally...
(Yahoo! News)

Washington confirms Chinese hack attack on White House computer. White House sources partly confirmed an alarming report that U.S. government computers -- reportedly including systems used by the military for nuclear commands -- were breached by Chinese hackers.? ?This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network,? a White House official told FoxNews.com. ?These types of attacks are not infrequent and we have mitigation measures in place.?? A law enforcement official who works with members of the White House Military Office confirmed the Chinese attack to FoxNews.com on Monday, but it remains unclear what information, if any, was taken or left behind...
(Fox News)

Bangladesh vows to protect Buddhists after Facebook photo attacks (+video). Hundreds of Buddhists who fled their southern Bangladesh villages in the wake of attacks by Muslims started returning home Monday amid heightened security and more than 160 arrests. ?The Buddhists moved to safety after an overnight weekend attack in which thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims burned at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran.? Army soldiers, paramilitary border guards and police were deployed, and the government has banned all public gatherings in the troubled areas near the southern border with Myanmar, said Lt. Col. Jaed Hossain, a military commander who was helping to install tents for displaced Buddhists...
(The Christian Science Monitor)

#MilitaryMon, #MilitaryMonday Twitter Roundup

Monday, October 1, 2012, 03:14 PM - Twitter Here's a roundup of some of the #MilitaryMon and #MilitaryMonday tweets that have been posted to Twitter today, including one from Medal of Honor Recipient Dakota Meyer.

Since the introduction of the Military Monday hashtags years back, it's been hard for Twitter users to settle on which of the hashtags to use, so I'm including both in these regular roundups.

Dakota Meyer

?@Dakota_Meyer
It?s not just our service members who sacrifice; it?s their families too. Thank you to those in uniform and those at home. #MilitaryMonday

Mark Juelich

?@markjuelich
#MilitaryMon The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him - G.K. Chesterton

Greta Perry

?@kissmygumbo
Yesterday was Gold Star Mother's Day. Let's honor those moms this #MilitaryMon

Danielle Rhoney

?@rhoneydanielle
#militarymonday! thank you for keeping this girl safe!

Books For Soldiers

?@books4soldiers
Saluting our supporters on #militarymon @vikkioh @shellieblum @books2mention @stormbear @glutenfreesd @joebilly47 @armymomstrong

Amanda

?@HonorThem
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America #SOT #SOV #USA #MilitaryMon #HonorThem

The Unknown Soldiers

?@SoldiersBlog
#MilitaryMon Follow these patriots @TMFoundation @TMFSanDiego @911HeroesRun @rmanion @SEALofHonor @travismillsfund @milblogging #MM

Soldier's Sweetheart

?@SoldiersSweetx3
#MilitaryMonday #Army #Navy #Marines #AirForce #NationalGuard #CoastGuard #SOT Thank You For Your Service And Sacrifice!

Barlow

?@NoShowBarlow
Thank God for the USMC! #militarymonday All my love & respect for fighting the good fight. My heroes. All of you!

Joel

?@godblessdausa
#MilitaryMonday Thanks 2 all military members who put themselves in harms way 2 keep us safe & defend the constitution of America God Bless

Mississippi Blonde

?@BlondeMSBelle
#MilitaryMonday Always, always always give thanks to the amazing men and women of our Military. They're my heroes!

Betsy Ramirez,MEd,RD

?@BetsyRamirezRD
Shout out to all servicemen/women, active duty & retired & their families! Thank u for ur service! #militarymon #supportourtroops

TerryBrambleAnderson

?@brambleanderson
#militarymon Support our troops, buy them a cup of joe for as little as $2!

HighGroundMovie

?@HighGroundMovie
@ #MilitaryLife: Long days and even longer nights. Thank you for stoking the heart fire. The High Ground Crew #militarymon

News: 5 social networking tips for military

Sunday, September 30, 2012, 05:49 AM - News Stories 5 Social Networking Tips for Military Members. Here's a scary war story: In 2007, when a fleet of new AH-64 Apaches arrived at a base in Iraq, several soldiers snapped shots of the choppers. Those images made their way online ? along with the invisible metadata that gave away the compound's precise location. Armed with that information, insurgents launched a mortar attack that destroyed four of the helicopters. "It's no longer 'loose lips sink ships.' It's 'everything you do sinks ships,'" says Dave Aitel, CEO of Immunity Inc., a firm that helps companies and government agencies test their vulnerabilities...
(Fort Bragg, NC Patch)

DoD on smartphones: You can?t have it your way. The day when troops are allowed to use their personal smartphones for military business may still be a long way off, a top Pentagon official said.? ?We haven?t cracked the code on mobile device management and the policies that go with them,? said Robert Carey, the Defense Department?s deputy chief information officer.? The military?s top tech experts have spent years working on developing standards to allow troops to use off-the-shelf commercial smartphones in their everyday business.? But clearing the way for classified and operational data to flow onto the hand-held devices has proven extraordinarily difficult...
(ArmyTimes)

Returned Vietnam diary gives son glimpse of father. Vu Dinh Son was 18 months old when his father left home to fight American forces in Vietnam, and just 2 when the man was killed in a foxhole encounter with U.S. Marines. But the son now has fresh glimpses into the life of the father he never knew thanks to a wartime diary, returned to him courtesy of the United States.? The pocket-sized book was brought to Vietnam in June by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who, in return, was handed a bundle of letters written by an American soldier that had been kept in Vietnam. The high-level exchange of artifacts symbolized a joint desire for closer ties by the former enemies, who now share concerns over China's rise...
(San Jose Mercury News)

Rebecca's War Dog of the Week: Army corporal and JaJo survive IED blast together. A young Army corporal and his detection dog named JaJo, a German Shepherd, suffered life-threatening injuries from an IED blast on Sept. 15 in Afghanistan where the team was on deployment. Family members who have been sending updates to the Military Working Dogs Facebook page (run anonymously by former and current handlers) said that the corporal suffered "severe blunt trauma and shrapnel injuries to his face, neck, and legs." JaJo, who also took a hit, ultimately had "half of his spleen removed and suffered two broken bones in his right-rear foot."
(The Best Defense)

Battle of Marshall 150th: Local photographer breathes life into Civil War icon. Mathew Brady settled into a chair at Windmill Gallery in Marshall Thursday, Sept. 13, camera in hand, and began to tell his story.? "I am the father of photojournalism," he said. "I was originally a frame-maker, but Samuel Morse taught me photography."? He talked for a few minutes about the painstaking, multi-step process required to take photos during the 1860s, when his work documenting the battles of the Civil War really launched his career.? For a 190-year-old, he was doing pretty well...
(Marshall Democrat-News)

War photo back home thanks to Mail story.? A FAMILY has been reunited with the last photograph ever taken of a relative killed at war after it was discovered in a loft.? Rachel West, 37, was cleaning out the loft in her Wynyard Road home back in June this year when she found a photograph of a woman and a soldier.? She contacted the Mail and appealed to anyone who may know anything about the photograph to come forward.? Mum-of-two Teresa Sinden, who lived in Wynyard Road before leaving the town and recently moved back to Seaton Carew, was visiting a relation recently who had kept a copy of the Mail...?
(Hartlepool Mail)

YouTube video of firefight reaches 3MM views

Saturday, September 29, 2012, 05:32 AM - News Stories

U.S. Soldier Survives Taliban Machine Gun Fire During Firefight

There has been quite a buzz this week over a video of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan engaged in a firefight.

Since being published on YouTube on September 26, it has received nearly 3 million views.

The unnamed soldier is hit 4 times.

Here?s the description of the video from YouTube:

?I got a hit a total of 4 times. My helmet cam died and i made it down the mountain on my own. I was also hit in the side of my helmet and my eye pro was shot off of my face. We were doing overwatch on the village to recon and gather intel. I was point heading down the face of the hill with the LT. when we got hit. the rest of the squad was pinned down by machine gun fire. I didn't start the video until a few mins into the firefight for obvious reasons. I came out into the open to draw fire so my squad could get to safety."

"A round struck the tube by my hand of the 203 grenade launcher which knocked it out of my hands. When I picked the rifle back up it was still functional but the grenade launcher tube had a nice sized 7.62 cal bullet hole in it and was rendered useless. "
You can watch the video here.

Military blogs added to Milblogging (Sept '12)

Friday, September 28, 2012, 11:41 PM

The Fight Continues, Angela Wenke, United States, A blog where we are trying to set up reading spots...

Expeditionary Lawyer, Jennja, United States, I am a Officer in the AfPak Hands program learning...

Jo, My Gosh!, Jo, United States, Teacher. Sister. Friend. Daughter. Navy Fiancee. W...

Yellowhammering Afghanistan, Mike Tomberlin, Afghanistan, Afghanistan through the eyes of an Alabama soldier...

The Gavina Family: Our Life as a Flyboy's Family, Caitlin Gavina, United States, My ramblings on pretty much every aspect of milita...

Remembering the 594th, TS Daugherty, Germany, My time with the 594th Trans Group (MC). 1961 - 19...

PTSD: Pathways Through the Secret Door, Timothy Kendrick, United States, Timothy Kendrick is a Retired Army Combat Veteran ... Laugh With Ash, Ashlee, Japan, Laugh with Ash is the story of my life as a Marine...

Humble Haro Abode, Tyah Ferguson, United States, Currently an ICU nurse, I have been married to my ...

Army Weak, South Korea, some guy bitching about the Army

All The Grace Between, Molly, United States, ?. the good-byes of an Army wife, the good-hello... Military Bride, Military Bride, United States, veteran, military spouse, mommy, and going to scho...

Romer Family of 3, Hana, United States, We're a family of 3. We're Southern and PROUD. Fol...

The Little Things, Liz, United States, A little blog about the little things my family & ...

Rbportraits - Your pencil artist extraordinaire, Rob Bates, United States, Rob Bates is a war-time illustrator with eight yea...

The Ribbon, United States, The Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program is a DoD-w...

MarinesMag, Multiple authors, United States, The Official Magazine of the United States Marine ...

Kevin Hanrahan, Kevin Hanrahan, United States, I?ve been a United States Soldier since I was 18...

Journey of a Navy fiancee, Lily, United States, A look into the life of a 22-year-old French Canad...

Lyon Party of 4, Lyonpartyof4, United States, Lyon Party of 4 blog has a little bit of everythin...

Defence probes anti-Islamist Facebook comments

Thursday, September 27, 2012, 06:07 PM - News Stories, Facebook Anti-Islamist comments posted on the Facebook page of an Australian soldier have sparked an investigation by the Australian Department of Defence.

The Australian Associated Press (AAP) is reporting the comments relate to a violent Sydney protest that took place earlier this month against the anti-Islam film called ?Innocence of Muslims?.

"Give me a M4 and send to Sydney and I'll do the dishes," wrote one soldier.

Another soldier allegedly replied, "Mate, what I'd have given just to drop the legs on a MAG 58, slap on a 500rd belt, adopt a stable firing position in the middle of the street and lay waste to every single one of those cancerous f???s .... sigh."

Army chief David Morrison told AAP, "There is no place for it in our army and our defence force and I will take action."

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