Do you have specific plans for this weekend?  Something you are going to do to honor our fallen heroes? I hear people express concerns over BBQs and parties and stuff.  They sometimes find it distasteful to be “having fun” on a day or weekend set aside to honor our military members who have paid the ultimate price.  I gue [...]

I read, with some amount of joy, this story about a soldier fighting the Taliban in his pink “I LOVE NY” boxers and flip flops. (Photograph by David Guttenfelder). I am reminded of a story of a war fighter in Desert Storm named Howard Johnson.  I can’t find anything on the web about him, but I remember the stories filtering i [...]

THIS IN NO WAY IS MEANT TO BELITTLE ANY OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN SERVING OUR COUNTRY. But some of the “management” team behind them are just silly. Apparently the Air Farce Force has restricted the use of any removeable media from their network computers. Remember back in March (on a previous version of my blog that is long gone) I r [...]

UPDATE: I didn’t read far enough down in the comments on Mr. Humbarger’s site.  The Air Force has some social media sites and are listed in the last comment. From a friend of mine, Peter Stinson, I was sent to this article by Tom Humbarger.   Mr. Humbarger discusses social media, of all types and the military, with severa [...]