It was a damn fine day in Iraq today. During operations today:
-- An air weapons team fired a Hellfire missile at four criminals as they attempted to emplace an improvised explosive device in northeastern Baghdad around 1 a.m. The missile killed all four and destroyed the IED.

-- A separate AWT witnessed two criminals setting up a firing position in northeastern Baghdad at about 1:30 a.m. The AWT engaged with one Hellfire missile and killed one criminal; the other fled to a nearby building...

By Maj. Enrique Vasquez
Combat Aviation Brigade
1st Infantry Division

MOSUL, Iraq – Two OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilots assigned to the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, received the Army’s highest aviation award, the Distinguished Flying Cross, for their actions during combat operations while flying over Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 30, 2007.



Pilots, Capt. Peter Di Giorgio and 1st Lt. Robert I. Sickler both of Troop A, 4th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment rece...

Knowing me as many of you do, you know that I feel the main stream media is biased against the military, and particularly the current war on terrorism. You also know that I am a former US Army Soldier myself. With that in mind I am sure you remember me mentioning to you that I was starting a YouTube Channel where I would post positive videos about the things going on in the war on terror and especially those things our fine men and women of the military are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because...

The other day I was reading and posting on a polictical disscussion board when one of the posters wrote a post that quoted a news article and what he wrote was not so shocking as was his response to some posters who responded to it. Here is the orginal post:

Police set to search for guns at homes

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/100208guns.htm

As Boston police prepare to go into some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, knock on doors of private houses, and ask i...

As many of you know I have my own YouTube channel where I post videos from the military that most people will never get a chance to see because the mainstream media refuses to show any good news video from the war front.

So back in March of 2007 I started a YouTube channel and dedicated it to posting videos I thought that the general public and military families might find interesting, yet not otherwise be able to find or see. With the popularity of YouTube I thought it was the perfect inter...

"It is 110 yards from the "E" ring to the "A" ring of the Pentagon. This section of the Pentagon is newly renovated; the floors shine, the
hallway is broad, and the lighting is bright. At this instant the entire length of the corridor is packed with officers, a few sergeants and some
civilians, all crammed tightly three and four deep against the walls.

There are thousands here.

"This hallway, more than any other, is the `Army' hallway. The G3 offices line one side, G2 the other, G8 is ar...

As many of you that read my blog on a regular basis know I am a old veteran and really have a soft spot for our recent vets. In addition many of you may or may not know that I am also the Police Academy Commander at a Police Academy in North Central Florida. Well with that said I got a telephone call this morning that really bothered me and though many of you would find it interesting and maybe a disturbing, like I did. I was disheartened to get a call from one of my new police recruits and a fe...

Born an Aussie and raised an Englishman, Scott Grimshaw is an officer in the Maine Air National Guard. In November we had a chance to catch up with the exceptionally bright and dedicated young man who is balancing his role in the reserves with the demands of the teaching profession.

You hear the tales of those born as Generation X, the generation of young men and women who are self-absorbed and interested only in what life has to offer them. Then you meet someone like high school teacher Sco...

I am sure by now you have heard that the US Army had an 80% increase in the desertion rate since 2003. Or did you hear how the desertion rates are the highest rate since 1980?? If not simply look at all the news reports, CBS, ABC, AP and many many others. But like many things the media and others have tried to do, they have forgotten about the power of the internet and the availability of information because of it. Here is what they are saying:

Soldiers strained by six years at war are desert...

The US Military Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System just put up a fantastic resource and tool for those families that have loved ones in Iraq or Afghanistan.

They created a web page they call "News From The Field" and it list all the units that are deployed, and even those that are not. It links each unit to all the videos and photos that have been taken about and by that unit and put it in a very easy to follow and understand format.

For people like me that search for specific s...

While many families in the US and around the world were getting ready for Halloween, another family was getting ready to welcome home a family member that had been gone for 15 very long months. They gathered along with hundreds of other family members of soldiers to welcome home their soldier in an airplane hangar, to wait for that glimpse of their loved one when he marched in the doors along with all the other soldiers. It was 9:15am and Holly, her two daughters (17 and 20) and her son (24) wer...

While writing my article on the military's use of the UAV in combat, I remembered a news release a few years ago about a program that was starting to look at development of a new weapons, technology, communications system called the "Land Warrior" program. The funding for this program was dropped back in Febuary but is being brought back and funded again. SO I reearched it again and was amazed by what I had found, and how far the program has come.

The Land Warrior program was designed to...

The US military has fielded a series of UAV's (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) that makes one think of futuristic wars and years in the future. But they are here and now.

The Army is training with and beginning to use a new UAV called the "Raven".

 You have to love the high tech launch system !!

The Raven is a small lightweight UAV. While the Raven looks deceptively like a remote-controlled hobby plane it is actually a high-tech device that can provide real-time footage or still images ...

I need the help of the blogsphere, forums, and others who believe in fairness and decency. As many of you know, and some may not, I have a pro-military YouTube Channel where I post positive videos and videos of the demise of terrorist. No blood or guts, just videos of our military doing its job. There are 450 of them posted on my channel. This brings me to the reason for my request for help.

About a month ago I posted a video of a terrorist blowing himself up while using a mortar. It was not ...

I got an e-mail today from YouTube informing me that they had removed a video from my YouTube Channel (3rdID8487).  :mad The video was of a terrorist getting blown up by his own motar while trying to kill US Military members. The only reason they gave was that it violated the Code of Conduct of YouTube. I went and reviewed the Code of Conduct again (for like the 10th time) and could not find anywhere that I can see a violation. Doing a little more research I found the very same video o...