The Air Force Academy has agreed to modify Operation Christmas Child, and it has apologized for attempting to send Christmas shoeboxes filled with gifts to more children than might be “proper.” The ‘Military Religious Freedom Foundation’ has astoundingly cowed the…
Air Force Staff Sergeant Angie Johnson has an official audition for The Voice, and she learned about it on Twitter while in Afghanistan. How’s that for modern technology miracles! Listen as Johnson does an impromptu Rolling in the Deep (Adele)…
I am astonished at the many who ignore Freedom of Information Act requests. This happens at all levels of our government. The FOIA gives citizens the right to know, yet our public servants and now our military, often thumbs their…
Pandering and pompous in the extreme, from Obama’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. You should know that findalis at Monkey in the Middle is an Air Force veteran and she has already received her August check…in July. Here’s the email…
The U.S. is mostly providing intelligence, surveillance and recon in Libya…right? No. We’re doing all that, and then we’ve also flown 801 strike sorties (“132 of which dropped ordnance”) since March 31st. The point to note here is that the…
The Few. The Proud. The Hijabed. Once again, the issue of women military wearing hijabs or headscarves on visits to Afghan villages, is raising concerns and some outrage. Admiral Mike Mullen explains that the women are not ordered to don…
Catching up on news on Libya. Benghazi rebels are reportedly flying the Libyan flag used before the Gaddafi coup. The U.S. is considering adding attack aircraft to Libya. The rebel leader, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, says he has al-Qaeda on his front…
by Maggie • • Comments Off on US F-15E Jet Crashes Near Benghazi: Pilots Eject, Are Rescued
The U.S. is saying a US F-15E jet fighter was not shot down, but confirmed that it had crashed landed in a field near Benghazi. The two crewmen ejected and survived. A U.S. military helicopter rescued one of the men,…
A Kosovar Muslim, Arif Uta or Arid Uka or Arif Uka, wielding a handgun and a knife, yelled the all-too-familiar deadly jihadi prayer, “Allahu Akbar,” and shot one U.S. Airman as he smoked a cigarette outside of a bus marked…