Archive for June, 2008
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
I’ve done a reverse MacArthur. I have returned from the Philippines.
As it happened, I rolled home and straight into an exercise! I’d like to say I swapped my ‘Battle Rattle’ for a chemical defense ensemble, but rather the chemical defense ensemble went on underneath the Interceptor body armor. Mercifully it’s [...]
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Bill Whittle’s been absent from his blog for awhile. It turns out he’s not only alive, he’s been writing a movie script!
Finally! Something that ought to be worth watching in the intellectual sense coming out of Hollywood! I hope this works!
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
I received an informative article awhile back from Mr Gary Patriquin, father of my late friend CPT Travis Patriquin (the author of the PowerPoint slideshow How to Win in Anbar). If you’d like to know how the West was won, see Ramadi from the Caliphate to Capitalism by Andrew Lubin in the April 2008 Naval [...]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Today my colleagues and I were invited to a Boodle Fight with some of our host-nation counterparts. The Boodle Fight is a tradition in this country that builds esprit de corps (team-building, in modern business parlance). I’m not sure how far it dates back. The cooks would prepare as much food as was available. Then they would [...]
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