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- Suicide Obsession
- Marine Commander Loses Son to Fight in Afghanistan
- Tanks to Afghanistan: The Killing Fields
- Medal of Honor: And then there were 87
- A MEU Commander’s Birthday E-mail
- Muzzle-to-Muzzle: Women’s Veiled Combat Role
- Corps Crowns New Commandant – Must Refocus on Honor
- The U.S. View: Yeah, We May Have a Contractor Problem
- Karzai, The Melodrama: Act II
- War Dogs and Wounded Families: Where’s the Story?
- War: Abstraction for Most Americans
- And the Band Played On…
- One Approach to Defense Management
- Prozac Forces
- Shift in IED Tactics Announced (Afghan IED Networks Take Notes)
- Marines Take Pirates. Call President Jefferson.
- CH-53K: Heavy Lift to the Rescue, But When?
- Basic Training
- Out of the Mouths of Pundits
- The EFV and the Future of Marine Amphibious Operations
- K-9 Jake the Wonder Dog
- Scenes from a Protest
- Suicide Blame Game
- The Ultimate Reality Show – Afghanistan?
- As Karzai Goes, So Goes …
- Armchair Afghanistan
- Crucial Marine Experiment Met with Silence
- RIMPAC- Foreign Policy Tool or Snoozer?
- Rumor Alert: Mattis to be next CENTCOM?
- If a Commandant Rises in Washington and No One Hears It …?
- Liability? Or Misunderstood Patriot?
- Afghanistan – Missing in (News) Action
- Marine Amphibious Exercise is Big News
- Deserters of the 21st Century
- YouTube’s Musical Military Darlings
- The Right to Die: The Latest Quantico Suicide
- CMC Joyride – The New HUMVEE Capsule
- Model Modern Military Officer
- “The Pacific” Reaches Resolution
- “Department of the Navy and Marine Corps,” A Dream Dashed
- Too Fat to Fight
- The Few, The Proud: Marine Week Boston
- Mattis Set to Retire?
- Barber Shops Hopeful in Upcoming BRAC Moves
- Politically Active on Facebook: A Tea Partying Marine’s Story
- Drones Don’t Kill. Lawyers do.
- Submarine Fetal Monitor
- VA Quagmire Over Gulf War Syndrome
- Not In My Corps: Separate But Equal?
- Name Your Operation, Know Your Audience (Including Late-Night Talk-Show Hosts)
- Unmanned Aerial Resupply– Its Time Has Come
- WikiLeaks: Modern Muckraker or Treasonous Tattler
- Mayport’s Gain, Norfolk’s Loss
- Experimental Forward Operating Base: Saving Gunga Din
- Ditch the Antidepressants and Pass me a Beer!
- Corps White letter – Leadership (Dis)Engagement?
- Experimental Operating Base Swamp Romp
- Here’s To You, Holly Graf
- Department of the Navy: Not Good Enough?
- Discharge All Mothers. Save America!
- Women on Subs? Not in My Corps.
- Female Engagement Teams: U.S. Leaders Tank Ditch to Progress
- The Routing Sheet: How do they win wars?
- Tombstone: Now, this is how to fight a war
- Korean War Decedents Remain Prisoners of Circumstance
- Okinawa – Proud to Call it Home
- Winds of Change
- DADT – Forget About It!
- Gays: Keepin’ the Dream Alive
- “Buying” Time in Afghanistan, U.S. Adopts Taliban Tactics
- Before Terror Suspects There Were…Haitians?
- Military Pawns in the Abortion Fight
- Drinking with the Enemy
- Morphine Addicts and PTSD Suffers Rejoice
- Pity the Posers: They may be closer than you think
- GAO Verdict on Corp’s Osprey: Need Plan B
- Supporting Combat Operations: Words of a Casualty Notice?
- Outgoing IED Defeat Organization Chief Speaks Out
- COIN Violated
- The Golden Fleece(ing)
- Bucks for Bethesda and Belvoir
- Make War, Not Love (The Redux)
- In Defense of the Mentors
- Combat Exclusion: Let’s Suppose…
- RAND: Worth the price of admission?
- Paying for Afghanistan with Squandered Defense Dollars
- The Army’s Strat Comm Response to 30,000
- Committed With Qualifiers
- Cuba’s Military—the Economic Engine that Could
- The Jihadist Among Us
- 0211 MOS Slams Shut to Women- Critics Cite Corps’ Negligence
- Diversity at the Helm
- Joint IED Defeat Organization – Defeated by the IED
- Wardrobe Changes
- The Don (Quixote) Preserving His Corps
- Lost in Translation: IED Solutions Mired in Disorganization
- Reunion: New York Meets New York in New York
- IED Network winning in battle against IEDs?
- Beirut 1983: History, History, History
- Women in Counterinsurgency: Female Exploitation Teams
- Buck Sloane Revealed
- Marine Suicides – Paradise Lost
- Stanley McChrystal: Christ Figure?
- Military Bans on Military Members – Is there anything more perplexing?
- “War is Boring” (and so is piracy)
- No Girls in the Tree House
- To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, John W. Nicholson, Jr.
- Academy Funds Training Program. Admirals Weep.
- Trust Games: Deadly Oxymoron
- You Write My Medal, I’ll Write Yours
- Chiefs’ Initiation: A Quest for Change in Washington
- A Failure to Communicate
- The Second Coming of the F-22
- Lessons Learned
- Drug Dens of the Army
- Afghan Railroad Express
- Jane Wayne Must Die
- Reservists May Fill Vacant Civilian Slots in Afghanistan (Because No One Else Will)
- Corps’ Gay-dar Pings Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
- Unfit for Duty — Real or Rumor?
- “GWOT” By Any Other Name Makes Sense
- Sidelined in the Strait
- Simulated Carnage
- Stop-Loss and the All-Volunteer Force
- Bait and Switch
- Intel undermining U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, according to RAND
- Coffin Controversy
- The Great Pirate Conspiracy
- Over-Classed and Out of Money
- NATO: No Troops for You
- The Port Royal: An Allegory?
- Knit for Victory
- Damn the Dollars! Full Speed Ahead!
- National Emergency Camps
- CHINFO sans INFO
- Blood Quest
- Reservists have longer life expectancy, study shows
- Hazardous Musician Play
- Teach a Marine to Recruit …
- Party On and “Hail to the Chief”
- Shakespeare on the Bridge
- VFW: Chick Magnet
- Military Politico Report
- Nice Pants
- Blogs! Blogs! Blogs! All blogs, all the time.
- The Blogman Cometh
- Power Protection and Budget Control
- Stormship Troopers
- Casualties of War
- Imitation: The Highest Form of Flattery?
- Talkin’ Taliban
- An Army in Retreat
- Scammed
- Surge Envy
- Voyage of the Damned
- Summer of Love
- Afghanistan’s Plains
- Looking for a few good …
- A Tanker Named Desire
- One MOS at a Time
- Urban Legends Exploited
- Just a Gigolo
- Russians blitz; Americans punt.
- Over There!
- Creeks and Paddles
- Son of Kong
- “Do You Believe Everything You Read?”
- Red Flags
- BRAC to the Future
- Candid Camera
- VI Day — The Sequel
- I Sunbathe at FOBs
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
- “Next-War-itis?”
- Vive la France!
- Good Guns Don’t, Good Guns Don’t, Good Guns Don’t … But I do
- Gun Runners Gone Wild
- Deal or No Deal: Driver Boy Part Deux
- Driver Boy
- Wringing of Hands
- Bad for Business
- MRAP — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- It’s not quite official, but…
- Crying Wolf
- Vets Need Not Apply
- Safety SEALs
- Celestial Break Up
- I Love IEDs …
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road
- Winter Soldier … Antiwar Valhalla
- The Guilt Medal
- Some Need Not Apply
- F-22 Smackdown
- Launching the Big Bucks
- Mandatory Meals Save World!
- Fantasyland
- Invasion of the Cyber Seductress
- Stay and Kiss! Don’t Enlist!
- Three Blind Mice
- Much Ado and Overblown
- Throw Me Something FEMA
- The Ice Man Cometh …
- U.S. Moves to Nationalize Defense Industry!
- Middle Eastern Rhapsody
- Unwavering Trust
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Flying Circus
- Machiavellian Smack Down
- A General Love Affair
- Department of Redundancy
- GI Jill
- Impartial and Unbiased?
- Public Relations in the Offense
- Kearney in the Crosshairs?
- The Bounty Hunters
- Them’s Fightin’ Words
- “I like brawling”
- Turf Wars
- Troubled Water
- Black Panthers: Here’s to the Writers and Film Makers Over the Decades
- Suicide Obsession
- Arms Sales Loom Large Abroad
- Muzzle-to-Muzzle: Women’s Veiled Combat Role
- Pot Shots at the Pentagon
- How will the Election Affect Defense?
- Corps Crowns New Commandant – Must Refocus on Honor
- USS San Antonio Woes Continue
- Defense Cuts Make Wall Street (and countless others) Nervous
- Health Care Dilemma
- War: Abstraction for Most Americans
- Government not to Prosecute Blackwater, KBR
- One Approach to Defense Management
- Shift in IED Tactics Announced (Afghan IED Networks Take Notes)
- CH-53K: Heavy Lift to the Rescue, But When?
- Basic Training
- The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab: Hundreds of Thousands Spent in Travel Costs
- The EFV and the Future of Marine Amphibious Operations
- U.S. is But a Bit Player in Pakistan’s Recovery
- Video: Nagata Interview from Pakistan
- The OSD Emerging Media Directorate
- Concurrent Receipt: Goodbye Disability Tax?
- Scenes from a Protest
- Code Pink Comes to Quantico
- Suicide Blame Game
- The Ultimate Reality Show – Afghanistan?
- Save a Buck: Nix JFCOM
- Defense Workers Face Child Porn Allegations
- Financial Disclosure for Mentors
- Crucial Marine Experiment Met with Silence
- RIMPAC- Foreign Policy Tool or Snoozer?
- Rumor Alert: Mattis to be next CENTCOM?
- Gates’s Money Pit
- If a Commandant Rises in Washington and No One Hears It …?
- Liability? Or Misunderstood Patriot?
- Intelligence Spawns Agencies
- Senators Give Abortion a Green Light in Overseas Facilities
- The Gravy Train is Slowing
- The Right to Die: The Latest Quantico Suicide
- Model Modern Military Officer
- The Few, The Proud: Marine Week Boston
- The National Day of Prayer
- Mattis Set to Retire?
- Ship Naming: The Scam Continues
- Barber Shops Hopeful in Upcoming BRAC Moves
- Politically Active on Facebook: A Tea Partying Marine’s Story
- Drones Don’t Kill. Lawyers do.
- Submarine Fetal Monitor
- Is the ROTC Exile Drawing to a Close?
- VA Quagmire Over Gulf War Syndrome
- Mentors: Gates Succumbs to Pressure from the Hill?
- Not In My Corps: Separate But Equal?
- Name Your Operation, Know Your Audience (Including Late-Night Talk-Show Hosts)
- Unmanned Aerial Resupply– Its Time Has Come
- WikiLeaks: Modern Muckraker or Treasonous Tattler
- Modernization: The Army’s Continued Tale of Woe
- Mayport’s Gain, Norfolk’s Loss
- Corps White letter – Leadership (Dis)Engagement?
- F-35: Too Big to Fail?
- “For Official Use Only” – The Faux Veil of Protection
- Discharge All Mothers. Save America!
- Women on Subs? Not in My Corps.
- The Routing Sheet: How do they win wars?
- Korean War Decedents Remain Prisoners of Circumstance
- Okinawa – Proud to Call it Home
- Winds of Change
- DADT – Forget About It!
- Gays: Keepin’ the Dream Alive
- “Buying” Time in Afghanistan, U.S. Adopts Taliban Tactics
- GAO Verdict on Corp’s Osprey: Need Plan B
- Supporting Combat Operations: Words of a Casualty Notice?
- Ricks – Goin’ Rogue on Defense Spending
- The Golden Fleece(ing)
- Bucks for Bethesda and Belvoir
- The Navy’s Christmas Gift for the City by the Bay
- Paying for Afghanistan with Squandered Defense Dollars
- The Army’s Strat Comm Response to 30,000
- Cuba’s Military—the Economic Engine that Could
- It’s Never Black Friday at the D-O-D
- The Jihadist Among Us
- 0211 MOS Slams Shut to Women- Critics Cite Corps’ Negligence
- Joint IED Defeat Organization – Defeated by the IED
- Wardrobe Changes
- The Don (Quixote) Preserving His Corps
- Lost in Translation: IED Solutions Mired in Disorganization
- IED Network winning in battle against IEDs?
- Beirut 1983: History, History, History
- Women in Counterinsurgency: Female Exploitation Teams
- Buck Sloane Revealed
- Marine Suicides – Paradise Lost
- Stanley McChrystal: Christ Figure?
- Civilian Personnel: Out with the old, out with the new
- BRAC’s Joint Basing: Shotgun Marriage Proposals?
- Military Bans on Military Members – Is there anything more perplexing?
- No Girls in the Tree House
- To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, John W. Nicholson, Jr.
- Missile Roulette
- Don the (Healthcare) Burlap Sack
- Academy Funds Training Program. Admirals Weep.
- ‘Prince of Pork’ King Among Like-Minded
- Mullen vs. the Money Changers (Strat Comm Run Amok)
- Civilian Personnel Management (and other myths and legends)
- A Failure to Communicate
- Congressional Industrial Complex
- The F-22 Saga Continues
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — Self-Made Dilemmas
- WHINSEC vs. Lawmakers
- The Second Coming of the F-22
- OSD Response on War Zone Civilian Hires
- GI Family Planning
- Think Outside the District
- Reservists May Fill Vacant Civilian Slots in Afghanistan (Because No One Else Will)
- Secretary of the Army and the Short List
- Information Operations: Death by Propaganda
- Defense Budget Dead On — Despite Hype
- Corps’ Gay-dar Pings Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
- U.S. Intel Woes Continue
- The Costly Road to Modernization
- “GWOT” By Any Other Name Makes Sense
- Simulated Carnage
- Stop-Loss and the All-Volunteer Force
- Bait and Switch
- Intel undermining U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, according to RAND
- Disaster Response
- Swashbucklers on the Hill
- Coffin Controversy
- And Prince Will Always Be King
- The Great Pirate Conspiracy
- Over-Classed and Out of Money
- NATO: No Troops for You
- Blackwater By Any Name Is As Controversial
- Lightning Strikes Twice
- Four Percent for Freedom, Hey!
- National Emergency Camps
- CHINFO sans INFO
- Reservists have longer life expectancy, study shows
- Name Game: Ships, History Victimized
- Tradition Run Aground
- Spending Surge: Defense Stimulus as Economic Second Coming
- GAO: Online Auction Sleuths
- OSD PA, “You can’t handle the truth.”
- Putting Vet Back in VA
- Military Politico Report
- IndyMac: Pathway to the White House
- Insensitive West Meets Incensed East
- Race-based set-asides declared unconstitutional
- Power Protection and Budget Control
- Hot Water for Deepwater
- The DoD Pick Three
- Desperate but Smart
- Stormship Troopers
- ROTC-Free Zone
- Citizenship Express
- I’ve Got a Bracelet, Too
- Man-Boy, Go Home
- Top O’ the Heap
- The Boeing Hostage Crisis
- Billions on the Path to Self-Discovery
- Boeing, Boeing, Gone
- Surge Envy
- Georgia on my (Trust Account’s) Mind
- Summer of Love
- A Tanker Named Desire
- One MOS at a Time
- Just a Gigolo
- That’s Not My Job
- Gallant Swedes
- Creeks and Paddles
- Son of Kong
- Red Flags
- Bad Boys … Whatcha Gonna Do
- Blurtha in the Crosshairs
- BRAC to the Future
- Unchained Remedies
- Candid Camera
- Terrorism Jingles
- Defense Deceit
- Hell No, We Won’t Go!
- Embedding: It’s Not Just for Journalists Anymore
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
- “Next-War-itis?”
- Old Soldiers …
- The Acme Ammo and Arms Emporium
- Crying Wolf
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road
- All You Have to Do Is Dream …
- Starbucks vs. Trailer Park Grounds
- The Guilt Medal
- F-22 Smackdown
- Fantasyland
- Extorting Lawmakers for Fun and Profit
- Machiavellian Smack Down
- The Buck Stops Here
- Baby It’s Cold Outside
- MRAP — Pander du Jour No More
- Mornin’ Sam, Mornin’ Ralph
- Powder Keg of the 21st Century?
- Kearney in the Crosshairs?
- Toss another Assistant Secretary on the Pyre
- Back to the Future
- Good-bye, LSI?
- Help wanted, part deux
- Staff Changes
- Teamwork
- Alaskan Native Corporations Trump Small Businesses Again
- How will the Election Affect Defense?
- Defense Spending: A Leading or Lagging Indicator?
- The U.S. View: Yeah, We May Have a Contractor Problem
- USS San Antonio Woes Continue
- Government not to Prosecute Blackwater, KBR
- CH-53K: Heavy Lift to the Rescue, But When?
- Erik Prince Trumps State Department Woes
- Raising an Army for the Department of State
- Barber Shops Hopeful in Upcoming BRAC Moves
- Stone the Contractors – the real deal behind contractor controversy
- F-35: Too Big to Fail?
- A Guy in a Vest or Northrop Grumman – You Choose
- Taliban Pay-Day
- It’s Never Black Friday at the D-O-D
- Missile Roulette
- ‘Prince of Pork’ King Among Like-Minded
- Congressional Industrial Complex
- Defense Budget Dead On — Despite Hype
- LCS Back on Course?
- Prince of the Hill
- And Prince Will Always Be King
- Over-Classed and Out of Money
- Blackwater By Any Name Is As Controversial
- Lightning Strikes Twice
- Damn the Dollars! Full Speed Ahead!
- CHINFO sans INFO
- Any Port in a Storm
- GAO: Online Auction Sleuths
- Power Protection and Budget Control
- Hot Water for Deepwater
- The DoD Pick Three
- Stormship Troopers
- An Army in Retreat
- I’ve Got a Bracelet, Too
- Top O’ the Heap
- The Boeing Hostage Crisis
- Billions on the Path to Self-Discovery
- Sea-cret Service
- Boeing, Boeing, Gone
- Georgia on my (Trust Account’s) Mind
- Voyage of the Damned
- A Tanker Named Desire
- Circular Economics
- Creeks and Paddles
- Candid Camera
- Defense Deceit
- Hell No, We Won’t Go!
- Good Guns Don’t, Good Guns Don’t, Good Guns Don’t … But I do
- Gun Runners Gone Wild
- A Cry for Help
- Bad for Business
- What’s $50 Million Among Friends?
- “Our Bad” — Or So They Thought
- The Acme Ammo and Arms Emporium
- MRAP — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- LCS: Highway to Hell
- Celestial Break Up
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road
- All You Have to Do Is Dream …
- Out of the Ruins …
- Starbucks vs. Trailer Park Grounds
- F-22 Smackdown
- Extorting Lawmakers for Fun and Profit
- U.S. Moves to Nationalize Defense Industry!
- Machiavellian Smack Down
- Department of Redundancy
- MRAP — Pander du Jour No More
- Secure Holiday Cheer
- And then there were two
- Powder Keg of the 21st Century?
- LCS Deja-vu?
- Back to the Future
- Felons with Firearms
- Good-bye, LSI?
- Law of the Land
- Help wanted, part deux
- Help Wanted?
- Budget Breaking
- Terror Trials and U.S. Courts
- Weekend Wanderings: New York City
- Cain and Abel: India and Pakistan
- DADT is Endless Comedy Fodder
- Karzai, The Melodrama: Act II
- Alien-Nation
- Own Service Museum: Hulking over the Interstate
- Weekend Wanderings: Zoot Suit Not Required
- War Dogs and Wounded Families: Where’s the Story?
- And the Band Played On…
- Weekend Wanderings: Arlington Cemetery
- September 11 is September 11
- Out of the Mouths of Pundits
- Weekends in Military History: Harpers Ferry
- Vietnam meets Puccini
- K-9 Jake the Wonder Dog
- Local Neighborhood War Memorials
- First Amendment Trumps Stolen Valor Act
- Does a Former Drill Sergeant Make a Terrible Therapist?
- Scenes from a Protest
- Code Pink Comes to Quantico
- The Ultimate Reality Show – Afghanistan?
- Time for a Makeover? Your input
- Thanks for the Nod, Navy Times!
- Last Lakota Code Talker Laid to Rest
- Corps Perpetuates Land Navigation Debacle
- Afghanistan – Missing in (News) Action
- Navy Secretary Tapped to Save Gulf. Who Will Save Him?
- Reading Air Show – World War II Undercover
- Save our Ship: The USS Olympia
- Mediocrity’s Sojourn at the Service Academies
- Capistrano Has its Swallows; We Have Rolling Thunder
- YouTube’s Musical Military Darlings
- Herndon (still) on the Chopping Block
- CMC Joyride – The New HUMVEE Capsule
- “The Pacific” Loses John Basilone
- Politically Active on Facebook: A Tea Partying Marine’s Story
- Is the ROTC Exile Drawing to a Close?
- The Pacific – Watch it!
- “For Official Use Only” – The Faux Veil of Protection
- Pity the Posers: They may be closer than you think
- The Navy’s Christmas Gift for the City by the Bay
- Marine Christmas Spirit and Unintended Holiday Décor
- Gridiron Hype
- RAND: Worth the price of admission?
- Ten Balloons, But Not One bin Laden?
- Weekend Musings – The Pen is Mightier …
- Looking for Mr. Commenter
- Diversity at the Helm
- The Boys of Company Two
- Countdown to the 25th – Show Me the Money!
- Paradise Found: Former Marine Saves Hundreds from Ravages of Katrina. Coming to Theaters Near You.
- Countdown to the 25th : The run for the presidency
- Happy Anniversary, Col. Qaddafi
- Mr. Roughead’s Race-Based Navy
- Detainees Odds-on Favorites over U.S. Prisoners
- Time Dulls All: Facebook Nation
- Murtha Men Give New Meaning to Legislative Liaison
- Not Only Can He Cook, But He Can Sell the Navy
- Best Places in Government to Work
- Shipboard Observations – the Maersk Alabama Attack
- Information Operations: Death by Propaganda
- Gentlemen Prefer Blogs
- Blurtha, “Send your huddled masses to my district … “
- Tradition Run Aground
- We are safer because they serve — or so they say
- A Requiem: 2008
- GAO: Navy Hoarding!
- DHS Reality TV: Low-Voltage Carp Barriers?
- Thugs on Tugs
- Homeland Security — coming to a small screen near you!
- Blogs! Blogs! Blogs! All blogs, all the time.
- Robert Timberg: Christ Figure?
- Milblogging.com
- The Blogman Cometh
- To the Shores of Tripoli: Bad Vlad’s Navy
- Brinksmanship
- Cold Case
- Man-Boy, Go Home
- Russians blitz; Americans punt.
- Fish in a Barrel
- Will Clooney play Rumsfeld?
- And the U.S. Air Force thought times were tough …
- Bad Boys … Whatcha Gonna Do
- Only Fools Rush In
- Mud Slingers at the VP Corral
- Pentagon Memorial
- Mano a Mano
- Dressed to Thrill
- Rolling Blunder
- In the Quartermaster’s, Quartermaster’s Corps
- But He Can Write
- Vive la France!
- Petty Officers
- The Skinny on FAT
- War Toaster
- The Running of the Boys
- Out of the Ruins …
- France on the Horizon
- “A Solution in Search of a Problem”
- Mr. Webb’s Neighborhood
- Katrina and the Corps
- A Farewell
- A General Love Affair
- The Face of Violence?
- Not Your Usual Suspects — Part Deux
- GI Jill
- Not Your Usual Suspects
- Price of Admission
- Mornin’ Sam, Mornin’ Ralph
- Validity is such a lonely word …
- Bowl Bound, Admiral Faust
- An End of Innocence
- This One’s for You, Vince
- (Cover) Model Hero?
- Cinematic Suicide
- Road to GITMO
- Legal Briefs
- Sticker Shock
- Troubled Water