Army Promotion

Stop Loss, Part Deux: Army of Rubes
And with a wife, parents and younger brother to support, Serrano said he can't take a minimum-wage position and hope for a promotion later. A fellow Marine persuaded the sergeant, who served in Iraq and is now in the Reserve, ...

Iraq, Iran: Following Orders Is No Excuse
A military in which promotion is the highest virtue is powerless to prevent disastrous mistakes, such as the invasion of Iraq. The Bush administration went to war on the basis of its fantasy that if merely a few US troops marched into ...

The Lord’s Army: Are YOU enlisted? Part 1
As adults, we strive for recognition and promotion. We love displaying our trophies and plaques and stuffing our scrapbooks with newspaper clippings. How are we ever to understand that, where God is concerned, our best is never good ...

Barack Obama interview
They envision a doctrine that first ends the politics of fear and then moves beyond a hollow, sloganeering democracy promotion agenda in favor of dignity promotion, to fix the conditions of misery that breed anti-Americanism and ...

Hillary Guilty of Valor Theft?
As a service person in the US Army, I was deployed to Bosnia immediately after the Peace Accord was signed and served there for eleven months in 1996. I was there at Tuzla Air base when the First Lady visited, and there was no sniper ...

Let us Not Sell Ourselves to the Americans
The plan to send 100 military trainers to Pakistan is an integrated part of the American conflict-promotion venture that would escalate internal political strife and antagonism and would eventually give the US an opportunity to expand ...

PRIVATE DELTA-AERO. COBALT-COBALT-YELLOW. In the US Army, Private ...
The Marine Corps, unlike the Army, has no other rank at the pay grade of E-4. Corporal is the lowest grade of non-commissioned officer in the US Marine Corps, though promotion to Corporal traditionally confers a large jump in authority ...

Welcome to Kosovo! The World’s Newest Narco State
Last Sunday’s unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, former warlord/commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), heralds the birth of a new European narco state. ...

US Army General Speaks Out (in public!!!)
A few days ago I heard an amazing statement from a General in the United States Army. He indicated that he was eligible for a promotion from Major General (two stars) to Lieutenant General. That is, from a two star General to a three ...

New Central Command chief an Army man
Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted the unusual circumstances facing Dempsey, who recently was confirmed by the Senate for promotion to four-star rank, but in a different job — as commander of US Army Europe. ...