Range Report: "Snake Slayer" I finally got that derringer I ordered... er, six months ago? Nine months ago? Something like that....

Attention The Hall: You are all familiar with JHD. It is with sympathy and honor we remark the passage of his father. I will leave it to t...

Congratulations: ...to The Major .

Breathless Anticipation: I absolutely cannot wait for the next Rumsfeld press conference. I would give anything to hear his answer if a rep...

Core Competency: Adding Context Specialist Van Treuren adds context from an AP report to an NY Times report about the bombing at an Iraqi ...

Measures of Effectiveness: "MOE" is military-speak for anything you can use to measure and track progress toward a given goal. He...

Thanksgiving: We gather today to feast with some of our friends and family, and to miss the ones who are not there with us. It can be hard ...

CENTCOM Cares: A few weeks ago, we had a soldier from CENTCOM PA drop by and spam our comments section. Eric remarked, as I recall, "W...

An Insult to a Worthy Gentleman: I've been speaking to points of etiquette lately. Here is a point at which the traditions of etiquett...

Spirit of America: Another fellow I met on that evening was "Sandy" Shapero, CEO of Spirit of America . They're doing some wo...

"The Mayor of Ar Rutbah" Don't miss this piece from Foreign Policy by Green Beret James A. Gavrilis. It describes how he an...

Ralph Peters Is Mad: He writes mad better than most, but this time, he's really mad . I am absolutely astonished by the calls for withdr...

Boys Will Be... I'm not sure exactly why, but my son has recently developed an interest in guns. Both my wife and I carry concealed som...

"No End But Victory" You've probably all seen the new group blog, No End But Victory . I entirely support the concept behind ...

Hook Sends: Sergeant Hook wants you to read this . Hook's been around a long time, and I've never gotten an all-hands MilBlog reque...

Honors: JHD sends this story about USMC casualty notification . It is called "Final Salute." Cassandra suggests you read another ...

The Colonel speaks. The guys over at Edefense Online have put up a very interesting article about the Serbian Air defense battery that mana...

Honorable Men yet again. First, we have The Republicans stepping on their collective training aid in the Senate. At random, see Hugh Hewitt ...

Some Side Notes: Aaron's "deck of death" for bloggers is still ongoing. It appears to me that we may have succeeded in votin...

OSM: It looks like the launch for Open Source Media , or OSM , or whatever it will actually be called , went reasonably well (except for tha...