This is my newest friend Earl “Scotty” MacKenzie, who I met last week at the Military Order of the Purple Heart Convention. He heads the MOPH portion of Cell Phones for Soldiers. Throughout the week, Scotty threw me every goofy pick up line in the book. He made my traveling companions laugh so hard and …
No – this is not a bad joke, though it sounds like one – LOL! I did this August 6th and can see that it most likely won’t happen, though maybe someone will see this and decide I would make a good candidate for OCS and give me a waiver!!! I blame this recent turn …
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* Governor Jindal presents more Honor Medals in Louisiana here and here and here * Northwestern State University named military friendly school * Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center doing more great things * 46th Engineers husband and wife team deploy together * National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program making a positive impact * Transportation Soldiers …
Pfc. Tavonte Johnson Pfc. Tavonte Johnson, a field radio operator with Headquarters Company, 7th Marine Regiment, provides security after a simulated attack by a suicide bomber on Aug. 8, as part of 7th Marine Regiment’s pre-deployment training exercise. Photo courtesy of United States Marine Corps These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their …
While Sir JJ Witmeyer & I were changing planes in Dallas on Sunday, he was approached by a Vietnam Veteran. After he walked away, JJ said to me, “You can still the see PTSD in his eyes.” That kind of clicked things in to place for me after my week at the Military Order of …
“There is nothing I have not done or seen, I’ve lived a full life.” ~Sir JJ Witmeyer~ I not only traveled with a hero on Sunday, but someone who was recently KNIGHTED!!! I kept teasing him all day buy calling him “Sir JJ” and he sloughed it off. Remember back on DDay reading about the …
I give myself an A+ in effort for pulling together a creative radio show each week. This week will not disappoint. I’ll be opening up with a sparring match discussion between TSO from This Ain’t Hell an Sergeant Selena Coppa from the Iraq Veterans Against War IVAW. Then I’ll be joined by my friend Frank …
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Major Chuck Ziegenfuss was a captain when he was wounded in Iraq in 2005. His experience was the inspiration for Soldiers’ Angels Project Valour-IT. He’s now a student in the Army Intermediate-Level Education program (formerly Command and General Staff College) in Fort Leavenworth, where he submitted this essay as part of his initial writing exam. …
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Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello 19 years old from Denver, Colorado 1st Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force November 8, 2005
I received this email yesterday. We can’t do enough for our men and women who serve and each of us working together can make a difference! I’m honored to be a part of Soldiers’ Angels. It is really like heaven has sent all of you to earth, my prayers have truly been answered. I will …
The Vietnam Veterans National Convention was held in KY and retired Army General Lt Gen Russel Honore weighed in with this “The VA, as good of an organization as it is, it does not have the capacity to take care of all the Vietnam veterans, the Korean War veterans, and now all the new veterans …
Listen here as my co-host Chuck Collins and I interview Chad Rogers from The Dead Pelican and Jim Hanson from the Warrior Legacy Foundation (last quarter).
Yep – doing the #militarymon thing on Twitter again. We start Sunday when Monday starts in Kabul and continue through our Monday. Come over and honor all the men and women who serve, our veterans, our fallen heroes, and military families on Twitter. @kissmygumbo
I usually don’t post an entire news story – but this is too important for anyone to miss. Money for Fallen and Disabled Soldiers Posted: July 31, 2009 06:29 PM Money For Soldiers’ Families The chairman of the State Senate Veterans Committee wants to expand a state law that would pay $250,000 to families of …
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I admit it, I have become such a social networking whore, that my blogging is suffering. I see a great story and instead of writing about it, I post on Twitter and Facebook for instant gratification. Today, I am stopping to share some stories that I really feel you should not miss. Heh- if I …