Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Home Pulse Military Sound Off

Military Sound Off

An informative blog was written over at Daily Kos by War on Error about bills the GOP has voted against to support veterans. Personally, I'm not counting because there is a distinct pattern to the...
The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating a complaint they received about military personnel allegedly leaking pictures of their naked, female colleagues on a website that promotes sexual assault. In the last month, a dozen women reported...
j jonah jameson
    Let's say you're a senior news editor at a prestigious national newspaper. Let's say you're savvy, experienced, and have an intellectual capacity superior to that of, say, a pile of gravel. Now let's say that...
One of the many things President Donald Trump has been accused of is having an affinity for dictators. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un notwithstanding, Trump has on numerous occasions praised autocratic heads of state for their "tough"...
After two days of a partial government shutdown, it appears as though the government will re-open after the Senate voted 81 to 18 to fund operations until February 8. But the next time someone spouts to...
bill cosby navy
Lets make one thing abundantly clear in no way am I downplaying the accusations against Bill Cosby. They are very serious and my prayers go out to the victims and their families? as they tread...
Paul Eaton in 2009 (image courtesy New America, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Earlier this week, we learned that Donald Trump had ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for what may be the first-ever peacetime military parade through the streets of Washington. Lawmakers from both parties have slammed...
alex minsky marine underwear model
OMGoodness. I'm not generally a woman who drools at extremely hot men (publicly), but I honestly think that ripped and tattooed underwear model and Marine Alex Minsky won my heart with the photo of himself...
First Baptist Church of Sunderland Springs (image courtesy church Facebook)
On Sunday morning, just as the morning service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas was getting underway, a black-clad gunman walked in armed with an AR-15 clone and started shooting. He wound up...
First Baptist Church of Sunderland Springs (image courtesy church Facebook)
On Monday night, we learned beyond any doubt that Sunday's horrific shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas was completely preventable. The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, had been court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his...
Dinesh D'Souza at Politicon 2016 (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
As part of the effort to push back against high school, college, and professional players taking a knee in protest of police brutality, right-wingers have claimed that taking a knee dishonors our men and women...
Mikey Weinstein speaking at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs in 2012 (from Ian Terry's Flickr)
For almost a decade, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and its founder, Mikey Weinstein, have stood for the rights of servicemen who face religious intimidation. That hasn't sat well with some hyper-fundamentalists. Just how deep...
Dana Pittard, Captain Humayun Khan's brigade commander (image courtesy U. S. Department of Defense, part of public domain)
For the last week, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of fallen Muslim American war hero Captain Humayun Khan, have had to endure outrageous smearing at the hands of Donald Trump and his surrogates. In...
cold war
Former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev has given an ominous warning about what he sees as threatening signs of conflict emerging between the West and Russia. Speaking to German newspaper Bild the Nobel Peace prize winner said: "All the...
Andrew Tahmooressi (courtesy Son of Jaded Tom's Flickr feed)
  For most of the summer, the ordeal of Andrew Tahmooressi, a former Marine sergeant arrested by Mexican authorities in March for bringing three guns across the border, has been a right-wing cause c?l?bre. Tahmooressi has...
Donald Trump wants war. In fact, he wants it so badly, he actually requested the Pentagon provide military options for sinking Iranian ships. Fortunately, "cooler heads prevailed," as the saying goes. According to the Washington Post on Wednesday, defense officials had...
Navy
Bath Iron Works of Maine sent out a destroyer for testing on Monday. The ship is the largest, costliest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy. The USS Zumwalt is the first of its kind produced...
President Donald Trump did not receive much support early on in his campaign, and has therefore sought to reward those early backers with some prime government positions. Trump's latest should frighten everyone: a former businessman,...
Since conservatives argue that the military expenditure is justified and statistics are being exaggerated, let's discuss it in an honest manner without any bias at all, just authentic globally accepted figures and nothing else. This is...
// // The?Daily Mail reported on Wednesday?that the Navy SEAL Team Six member who shot and killed Osama bin Laden at close range with three shots to his forehead is 38-year-old Montana native Robert O'Neill,...