Army Promotion Point

A Question For My Military Readers:
There came a point in my Army Reserve life where I had to make a decision about what was most important... my civilian livelihood, or my military promotion. There simply weren't enough hours in the day to finish the military schooling I ...

Authority and Responsibility
When I became a Sergeant in the US Army at the age of 21, my promotion ceremony was on the Normandy Drop Zone at Ft. Bragg, NC. We had just jumped out of C-130 aircraft, at the beginning of a daylong movement exercise… in other words, ...

Izetbegovic’s Vision for Bosnia: An Islamist Fascist State
“The territory controlled by the Bosnian Army after the war will be a Muslim state. This is a desire of the Muslim people and, after all, our leaders: secular leader Alija Izetbegovic and religious leader Mustafa Ceric (the latter one ...

MY POINT OF CAMP(:
there was on stop that many botak of growing hair guys board the bus. army people, i guess. suddenly make me feel very satisfied with my hair. evil but i like it. haha the bus uncle told us to alight at this half deserted cemetery and ...

Jesse MacBeth to Winter Soldier: Exposing Dahr Jamail
When MacBeth was exposed in short order, Jamail sought to conceal his part in that promotion by blaming that promotion on the right . A Talking Point Memo on Haditha? The MacBeth video was released only a few days after Congressman ...

The Power of a Press Release
That morning, John Humphrys interviewed Ken Wharton, whose book, A Long Long War: Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98, is to be published by Helion in April. Surely, particularly when the words ‘unknown’, ...

Where Are The Leaders?
Map all of this on to the black comedy unfolding in our nation’s capital and it appears that we have elected an army of well-meaning people who has a value system based on self-promotion, survival and keeping the boss happy. ...

Was the US Involved in Killing the FARC-EP Leaders?
Santos expressed that recently obtained intelligence information related to a satellite phone used by Comandante Reyes enabled the Colombian military to pin-point the location of the encampment, subsequently enabling the campaign to ...

Fallon's resignation is frightening
But more to the point for Fallon, Kayani becomes the operational point man for any increased collaboration between the US military and the Pakistani army to tackle the issues of the FATA, which a Centcom senior intelligence official ...

Battle of Cowpens, SC in the Revolutionary War
He was in the wagon train when General Braddock's army was attacked and almost wiped out by a French and Indian coalition; instead of supplies, Morgan found himself hauling wounded soldiers. At some point during that same year, 1754, ...