[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50RFJfUzNsY[/youtube] On Tuesday, Sal Guinta will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient from the current wars. Journalist Sebastian Junger, who wrote a book about Afghanistan, worked with photographer Tim Hetherington to create this video about a man and war and valor. It’s gripping, raw and a must-see for Veterans Day.
Browsing: Outside the wire
A Marine shot, injured by IEDs, and awarded two purple hearts found “Go back to Iraq and kill more women and kids” spray-painted on the family SUV in West York, Pa., and the tires slashed. The vet said he was uncomfortable with the attention after a reward was offered in the case and a fund drive was launched to aid the family. [via The York Dispatch] A 60-year-old laboratory supervisor at Umatilla Army Depot, Wash., who had 20,000 images and 244 videos of child pornography on his computer was sentenced in federal court to six years in prison and must…
A 44-year-old Anchorage veteran charged in a series of rapes was sentenced to five years in connection with an assault on a woman at a grocery store in 2006. The vet, already in jail, faces 12 more charges. [via Anchorage Daily News] Jury selection continues in the Alabama trial of a 26-year-old Iraq War vet who kidnapped, robbed and shot an 18-year-old Auburn University freshman in 2008. Defense attorneys questioned potential jurors about their views on the military and PTSD, possibly preparing for an insanity defense. The defendant, who served three years in Korea and Iraq before a discharge over…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YULUUoc-fI[/youtube] While the Tuskegee Airmen are fairly well known, few know the story of the segregated 333rd Field Artillery Battalion and the 11 artillerymen massacred during the Battle of the Bulge. A new film hopes to change all that.
Stars and Stripes blogged the following e-mail, sent Tuesday morning to Army employees at Kleber Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, a German city that is home to more than 50,000 Americans: From: Benyo, Nicholas S SFC MIL USA [mailto:***.***@eur.army.mil] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:31 AM Subject: *****EXERCISE*****EXERCISE******EXERCISE******** (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Ladies and Gentleman, The individuals you see in full PPE and the individuals you see in “Arabic attire” armed with AK-47’s, pistols and IEDs are role players and/or USAG-K reaction force personnel who are conducting TRAINING. Please stop calling the German Police, Military Police and hiding in your buildings.…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG11XbSADXE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] They’re always revealing, often jarring and sometimes heartbreaking. PostSecret, a community art project that collects anonymous postcards, posted this video of military and war-related mailings. People’s secret desires, stated frankly may make you smile and will definitely open your eyes.
Jeremy Renner, who played Sgt. 1st Class William James, the Hurt Locker’s risk-taking EOD team leader, is rumored to be in talks to play Snake Plissken. Bloody Disgusting reports Renner could star in the remake of the 1981 post-apocalyptic thriller. In the John Carpenter-directed original, taciturn eye-patch wearing Plissken must rescue the president from a gang-ruled Manhattan. In the New Line Cinema remake, BD reports, a soldier-turned-criminal is given 24 hours to find the president following the crash of Air Force One. And in case you were wondering, Renner since the critically-acclaimed “Hurt Locker” seems to headed beyond “oh, that…
The Good Men Project Magazine has an interesting premise. Labled the anti-Maxim by MediaWeek, it’s generating buzz and running articles about male postpartum depression, having a UFO expert for a dad and an Army Ranger’s take on Pat Tillman. It’s also posting items from contributor Lt. Newman McKay, a recent graduate of Centre College in Danville, Ky. deployed to Iraq until Spring 2011. His Facebook page says he is with the 632nd Maintenance Co., 110th CSSB, at COB Adder. (And that he thought the new Usher joint was sick. Moving on.)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMmJMNRv-Q[/youtube] If you happen to be in D.C., “Bridge on the River Kwai,” ranked among the greatest war movies of all time, is a must-see experience. It’s playing at the Burke Theater at the U.S. Navy Memorial Nov. 9 and is free for service members who RSVP.
Former Green Beret Tommy Sowers lost to incumbent U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson Tuesday in the race for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District. Emerson earned 65.6% of the vote with Sowers in second with 28.8%. Sowers, who ran as a Democrat, acknowledged last week he was a long shot to unseat the 8-term Congresswoman, but he remained optimistic pointing to the gains his campaign had made with independent voters. In the end, the Republican wave that has engulfed this mid-term election combined with Emerson’s experience proved too much. The former special forces soldier and West Point instructor did catch the attention…
