Tag Archives: Military Readiness

Time Out for Tampons! Women In Combat

December 3, 2015, a day that will live in infamy for the United States, Defense Secretary “Ash” Carter (ironic for that is certainly what he has made of the world’s once most powerful military) unilaterally and against expert advice to … Continue reading

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Military’s Holocaust Hypocrisy

As a boy in the ’50s I watched “World At War” narrated by Walter Cronkite.  I was forever marked emotionally seeing the films of the liberated concentration camps.  As a teenaged military history buff I studied that war to understand … Continue reading

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PTSD……Really?

Post Traumatic Stress Syndrom (PTSD) – like any government benefit involving money- is being abused.  I recommend anyone interested in the subject to first read the book “Stolen Valor” by B. J. Burkett.  The author was an army lieutenant who returned from Vietnam … Continue reading

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