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Archive for category Warriors
US soldier from the Third Brigade on joint security patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 25/Aug/2011 18:04
A US soldier from the Third Brigade passes an Afghan family outside their mudhouse during a joint security patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in Kandalay village on Aug. 4. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
Slain Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson: his dog refused to leave his side during the funeral
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 24/Aug/2011 18:49
The dog of slain Marine Jon Tumilson refused to leave his side during the Navy SEAL’s funeral earlier this week in Rockford, Iowa. The heartbreaking photo taken by his cousin, Lisa Pembleton, shows Tumilson’s dog Hawkeye lying by the casket. (via The Daily Treat: Animal Planet)
US soldiers keep guard near a canal in Kandahar province
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 23/Aug/2011 18:02
US soldiers keep guard near a canal running thru Highway 1 on the outskirts of Kandalay village in Kandahar province on August 6, as part of a mission to secure southern Afghanistan's strategic roadway against Taliban insurgents' placements of improvised explosive devices (IED). According to Captain Max Ferguson commander of Charlie Co., a Taliban was killed while trying to place IED some 800 meters from the area where soldiers were sealing off the road culvert with iron grids and barb wires. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
Feds Ask Supreme Court to Validate Stolen Valor Act
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Warriors on 22/Aug/2011 17:55
“The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to uphold a 2006 law making it a criminal offense to lie about being decorated for military service.
The Stolen Valor Act makes it unlawful to falsely represent, verbally or in writing “to have been awarded any decoration or medal authorized by Congress for the Armed Forces of the United States, any of the service medals or badges awarded to the members of such forces, the ribbon, button, or rosette of any such badge, decoration, or medal, or any colorable imitation of such item.â€
From: Wired
PFC James Anderson Jr MOH Recipient
On this day in 1968 PFC Anderson was the awarded the Medal of Honor by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Citation:
The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR posthumously to
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS JAMES ANDERSON, JR.
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
For service as set forth in the following
CITATION:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a rifleman, Second Platoon, Company F, Second Battalion, Third Marines, Third Marine Division, in Vietnam on 28 February 1967. Company F was advancing in dense jungle northwest of Cam Lo in an effort to extract a heavily besieged reconnaissance patrol.
Private First Class Anderson’s platoon was the lead element and had advanced only about 200 meters when they were brought under extremely intense enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire. The platoon reacted swiftly, getting on line as best they could in the thick terrain, and began returning fire. Private First Class Anderson found himself tightly bunched together with the other members of the platoon only 20 meters from the enemy positions.
As the fire fight continued several of the men were wounded by the deadly enemy assault. Suddenly, an enemy grenade landed in the midst of the Marines and rolled along side Private First Class Anderson’s head. Unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his own personal safety, he reached out, grasped the grenade, pulled it to his chest and curled around it as it went off. Although several Marines received shrapnel from the grenade, his body absorbed the major force of the explosion.
In this singularly heroic act, Private First Class Anderson saved his comrades from serious injury and possible death. His personal heroism, extraordinary valor, and inspirational supreme self-sacrifice reflected great credit upon himself and the Marine Corps and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
(signed) LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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Captain Max Ferguson at Kandalay village in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Aug/2011 17:58
Captain Max Ferguson plays with Afghan children during a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers at Kandalay village in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Aug. 8, while US troops launched missile attacks on Taliban targets in nearby Kelawai village killing at least three and capturing two insurgents. US forces push their counterinsurgency efforts to battle for the hearts and minds of the local population. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
Charles P. Murray Jr., Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 89
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 17/Aug/2011 02:59
Charles P. Murray Jr
Charles P. Murray Jr., who received the Medal of Honor for single-handedly preventing 200 German soldiers from attacking an American battalion while leading a scouting mission in France during World War II, died Friday at his home in Columbia, S.C. He was 89. (New York Times)
First Lieutenant Murray’s official Medal of Honor citation reads:
For commanding Company C, 30th Infantry, displaying supreme courage and heroic initiative near Kaysersberg, France, on 16 December 1944, while leading a reinforced platoon into enemy territory. Descending into a valley beneath hilltop positions held by our troops, he observed a force of 200 Germans pouring deadly mortar, bazooka, machinegun, and small arms fire into an American battalion occupying the crest of the ridge.
Stolen Colt 1911 Returned to MOH Recipient after 30 Years
From: Mail Tribune
A historic Colt .45-caliber, semi-automatic pistol stolen more than 30 years ago from a Medal of Honor winner in South Carolina has been returned to its rightful owner. The gun and owner were reunited after a history buff in Medford, who bought the old handgun in an online auction last month, tracked down the retired Marine whose name is engraved on it. “I knew if I found him and it was his gun, I couldn’t keep it,” said George Berry, 71, who knew little about the history of the gun when he purchased it from an auction house in Pennsylvania.
The story begins when Berry, a retired Navy warrant officer who also served in the Marine Corps, decided this summer to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning one of the historic handguns. “I’ve always wanted to own a Colt Model 1911 .45 automatic — always wanted one,” he says. “John Wayne had one in every World War II movie I’ve ever seen him in.”
USS Bonhomme Richard, USS Sampson in Seattle for Seafair
USS Bonhomme Richard, LHD 6 and the Destroyer USS Sampson, DDG-102 (foreground)
The Amphibious Assault Ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and the Destroyer USS Sampson (DDG-102) arrived in Seattle Yesterday for the 62nd anual Seattle Seafair. Also seen in the the skys above Elliott bay were the Blue Angels and  Fat Albert. The Blues are scheduled to fly Aug 6th and 7th.
Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer’s Combat Experience in Iraq
From: CSPAN
Major Jane Blair talked about her memoir Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer’s Combat Experience in Iraq. She kept a journal of her and her fellow Marine officers’ experiences in the Iraq war. The guest interviewer was Representative Loretta Sanches (D-CA).
The Mechanics of Blast Injuries
from:MIT
Scientists have discovered a mechanism underlying the type of brain injury that soldiers often suffer as a result of roadside explosions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The work could point the way toward early treatment for these acute blast injuries by identifying potential drug targets.
Two new papers from the Disease Biophysics Group at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, led by Kevin “Kit” Parker, use tissue-engineering techniques to model the physical and biochemical effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the brain and blood vessels. Parker says the work represents a first step toward a “TBI on a chip” that could be used to screen for drugs to treat blast-injured soldiers before long-term damage sets in.
Army Carbine Competition Controversy
Posted by Brian in News, Warrior Tools, Warriors on 18/Jul/2011 16:25
The Military Times reports on the growing controversy surrounding the competition for the army’s next carbine:
The concerns and complaints are various, but largely fall into one of three categories: rights to technical data, quality control during production, and perceived limits on capabilities and calibers.
Perceived limits on capabilities and calibers have also drawn ire. Specifically, the lack of recognition for modular weaponry has left some surprised, and others frustrated.
Lance Cpl. Robert Greniger of Greenfield, Minnesota dies in combat in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 15/Jul/2011 11:26
by: Mark Brunswick
The remains of servicemen, including Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Greniger of Greenfield, Minn., arrived Thursday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Greniger, 21, was killed in combat Tuesday in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Photo: Steve Ruark, Associated Press
Lance Cpl. Robert Greniger of Greenfield had been in Afghanistan only a few months, a friend said.
“He talked about getting to know some people, especially some of the natives around the main base where he was at. He had met a little girl that looked just like his youngest sister, Greta, who’s 8. He was teasing her about getting him some bread, and the girl went home and got him some bread,” his father recalled.
Kurt Greniger said his son had been in Afghanistan since March.
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Corpsman Killed in Afghanistan
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 15/Jul/2011 09:10
MIDLAND, Mich. — A Navy hospital corpsman who enlisted out of high school and was on his first deployment to Afghanistan has been killed in action, his mother said Wednesday.
The remains of Aaron Ullom, 20, of Midland are scheduled to arrive Thursday afternoon at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Ullom was serving alongside a Marine unit when he was killed Tuesday.
General Petraeus leaves a still deadly Afghanistan to head CIA
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 14/Jul/2011 21:02
“When U.S. General David Petraeus was named supreme commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan one year ago, he had the reputation of something of a military miracle worker.
He was dubbed King David, the man who set unruly Iraq to rights, and lauded as the most influential general of his era, a warrior-scholar and the brilliant mind behind the American military’s new gospel of counterinsurgency.
…Gen. Petraeus had more than double the number of Afghan and foreign soldiers under his command than were available to fight the Taliban just three years ago. They created a new dynamic that critics say made Afghanistan a more violent place and spread the insurgency.”
