BattlelandMarines
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Senator John McCain said the viral video clip of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan apparently urinating on three corpses identified as Taliban enemy dead “makes me so sad” on CBS Thursday morning.
There’s not a lot else that needs to be said.
BattlelandMarines
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You may recall a couple of weeks ago when we reported, based on our own crude analysis of a Pentagon contract announcement, that the latest batch of engines for the Marine’s F-35 fighter would cost $129 million apiece, five times the $25 million sticker on the Air Force F-35 …
BattlelandPolitics
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Hard to figure out what’s worse – a soldier violating formal and long-standing Pentagon rules by cheering on GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul while in uniform, or those insisting that his interview with CNN was cut off because the network (part of the Time …
BattlelandMilitary
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Absent momentous news, this is likely to be Battleland’s final pre-Christmas post. Given the lack of sources in D.C. through New Year’s, we’ll be scaling back on our posts in the coming week, too. But before we start our holiday shopping, let’s end …
BattlelandPolitics
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Texas Governor Rick Perry has a new TV spot featuring a pair of Medal of Honor recipients endorsing his candidacy for President. Not sure if Americans will view this as a reason to vote for him – for the heroes’ heartfelt feelings — or against him, for turning the nation’s …
BattlelandIraq
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When we suggested Thursday that it might be nice if people toned down their political rhetoric for awhile over the end of the U.S. military’s role in Iraq, we didn’t have President Obama in mind. Turns out, we should have.
BattlelandDrones
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The wild and crazy guys over at Next Media Animation are poking fun at pretty much everything associated with the fumble of the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone into Iranian hands last week. They suggest it might end up in Chinese hands, and under North Korea’s …
BattlelandWeapons
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F-22 tail number 4195 rolled off Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Ga., assembly line on Tuesday. It was the 187th, and last, of the fifth-generation super-stealth fighters to be built. When the program began – the first F-22 rolled off the line in 1997 – the Air Force said it …
BattlelandTroops
You know when the public has tired of a war? When the TV networks go home and the Marine Corps has to release its own bang-bang video. That happened Wednesday morning, as the Marines spread far and wide a five-minute clip of leathernecks coming under Taliban attack in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. It’s compelling watching, as 1st …
BattlelandNavy
Retired Navy master chief yeoman Jim Taylor talks about sending off survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor to spend eternity with their shipmates, who perished 70 years ago Wednesday. “I think the reason that they want their ashes scattered in the harbor, in Pearl Harbor in particular, is because their shipmates, their …
