In The News
We Fly for Freedom
Update from the Mayor of Holly Hill Florida. (15 April 2013) If you cannot read the embedded PDF, Download it HERE WTFers worldwide, gather round, crack a beer, crack a coke, or drink water. Take a knee as I give you the SITREP. This story comes to us from Holly Hill, FL. A wounded [...]
Col Benjamin H. Purcell – RIP
Name: Benjamin H. Purcell Rank/Branch: Colonel/United States Army Unit: 80th General Support Group Date of Birth: 14 February 28 Home City of Record: Columbus GA Date of Loss: 08 February 1968 Country of Loss: SVN Loss Coordinates: 164425N 1071955E Status (in 1973): Category: Missions: Korea – 1st Lt. Purcell served from April 51 through May [...]
Ukrainian Attack Dolphins on the Loose
Dolphin scientist Justin Gregg brings us this slightly disturbing, if hilarious, bit of Delphic news. The Ukrainian military has apparently lost three of its trained dolphins in the Black Sea. Which might not be so bad, except…. Well, Gregg sets it up perfectly: Uh oh – it seems the Ukrainian Navy has a small problem [...]
WTF
They Wont Tow Me
SO here at Ft. Carson we were at Wal-Mart go to get in the car and this guy parks in front of the cart return…. He really should have listened to his wife when she said “this is not a parking spot” he replies “they wont tow me” Submitted by Sarah S.
Snuffy, Joe and The Case of Razor Burn
Travis posted this one. I can’t make this story up! It was Ft. Drum 2008. I received a new soldier a few days prior due to him lacking a lot of soldier qualities and 1SG liked giving me the shitbags because I didn’t care about their parents not loving them. The 3rd morning he was [...]
Marine double amputee humiliated on Delta flight
Marine LCPL Christian Brown, newly promoted to CPL, was travelling via Atlanta on a Delta flight this week when he was brought to tears from humiliation. He is a double amputee due to stepping on an explosive device during a patrol in Afghanistan on December 13, 2011. Brown spent six months in a coma and [...]
Random
Army wife part #198237831 the mind your damn business type
So I’m at pre-mob getting ready for deployment. I look on my company’s Facebook page and there is a news article posted about our departure ceremony. Underneath the article is a comment from my 1SG’s wife that talks about how she hopes our commander acts more professional overseas than he does here (he’s goofy at [...]
McClellan: One last call to service – We should end military funeral honors
Marc Garcia is a trumpet player who moonlights as a bugler at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. He plays taps at the end of graveside services. If you have ever been to such a service, you know that the haunting notes of the melody provide an emotional end to the event. Garcia contacted me recently to [...]
BAMFS
Anthony G. Dodge – son tay raider
Anthony Dodge enlisted in the U.S. Army on January 23, 1956, completed basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in March 1956, and completed Advanced Individual Training as an Artillery Fire Control Crewman at Fort Bliss, Texas, in June 1956. His first assignment was as an Artillery Fire Control Crewman with Battery B, 550th Anti-Aircraft [...]
WWII BAMF, Inspiration for ‘The Dirty Dozen,’ Dies
International World War II hero James “Jake” McNiece and a respected member of the Ponca City community died Monday morning at the age of 93 in Chatham, Ill., where he and his wife Martha had moved in November to be near their son. McNiece, a platoon leader and demolition sabotage expert with the 101st Airborne [...]
Charles Durning, US Army Ranger – D-day and WWII veteran a true BAMF and ‘king of character actors,’ dies at 89
Charles Durning joined the US Army when he was 17 years old, and during World War II he was seriously wounded by a mine and suffered severe bayonet wounds in hand-to-hand combat with Nazis. His unit was eventually defeated in Belgium by an SS Panzer unit, but Durning escaped and was spared the fate met [...]
Military Humor
Other Recent Posts
Someone’s late for formation
Caught this on the way back from a trip. Zoomed past me, and I was traveling at a healthy 75…so much for that safety brief.
Weaning The War
Remember Afghanistan? For that matter, remember Iraq? When the Iraq war ended, and I use the term loosely, there was no ticker tape parade down the streets of Manhattan filled with returning troops. There was no time defying photograph of a nurse draped over the arms of a Sailor, destined to forever be lip-locked in [...]
Female soldier, 30, smuggled $1MILLION during Afghanistan deployment and spent it on plastic surgery and an 18-wheeler truck
A female soldier smuggled $1million from Afghanistan and spent the cash on plastic surgery, a vacation and an 18-wheeler truck and trailer, a court has heard. Tonya Long, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison and has been ordered to pay back the money she stole. Long, who [...]
Army Specialist’s body found in TN River identified
CHATTANOOGA – The body found in the Tennessee River Saturday in Marion County has been identified. Channel 3 has confirmed through a close friend of the family that the body is that of missing Army Specialist Bradley Rogers Rogers has been missing since February 3rd. He was last seen at the Electric Cowboy nightclub on [...]
This month in history
At 2 A.M. on February 17, 1974, Robert K. Preston, a United States Army private first class, stole a United States Army UH-1 Iroquois helicopter from Fort Meade, Maryland, flew it to Washington, D.C., and hovered for six minutes over the White House before descending on the south lawn, about 100 yards from the West [...]
One JBLM paratrooper rescued, two still in trees near Rainier
Three JBML paratroopers became stuck in trees Thursday, according to the Thurston County Fire Department. One of the three paratroopers has been rescued. The other two remain stuck in the trees. The troopers were deep in the woods several miles north of Rainier Acres Road near Rainier. Rescuers had to go in on foot and [...]
