To confirm and validate my experience as an Army Officer, after OCS at Fort Benning, I became an infantry platoon leader, airborne qualified, with special training in the Army’s Jungle School in the Panama Canal Zone at Fort Sherman. During seven months of field combat, I was awarded three Bronze Stars, including two for Valor and one for service excellence. I also was awarded an Army Commendation Medal for Valor. Promoted to Headquarters and Headquarters Company Commandant for the 2nd Battalion/1st Infantry of the 196th LIB, I was stationed at Hawk Hill, northwest of Chu Lai, earning another Army Commendation medal for service. Other awards included the Air Medal for 27 Combat Assaults by Helicopter, the Combat Infantry Badge (CIB), the Vietnam Ribbon, and the Purple Heart.

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Blog #55 A Notorious Traitor: Jane Fonda. The Story is Shocking.
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Blog #55 A Notorious Traitor: Jane Fonda. The Story is Shocking.

Most don’t know why Vietnam Vets truly detest Jane Fonda. She was Hanoi Jane and directly contributed to the deaths of our captured pilots in North Vietnam. It is a story of betrayal., ignorance, and disregard for human life - those of her fellow Americans. She brought pain, suffering, death to our POWs.

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Blog #54 Did You Know, A Plot was made to overthrow FDR?
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Blog #54 Did You Know, A Plot was made to overthrow FDR?

Major General Smedley Butler, a two-time Medal of Honor recipient and outspoken critic of war profiteering was asked to overthrow the newly elected President, FDR. A historic fact for Americans to know how important our Constitution is to our continued existence beyond that of so many countries who failed and faded away.

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Blog #53 Huge Win for Trump in Armenia and Putin Loses
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Blog #53 Huge Win for Trump in Armenia and Putin Loses

Getting little notice is the success of Trump’s involvement in stopping the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This goes against Putin's wishes and gives Trump a chance to bring the Middle East closer than ever to cooperation and peace.

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Blog #51 Hegseth’s D-Day Speech for Europe to Take Warning.
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Blog #51 Hegseth’s D-Day Speech for Europe to Take Warning.

Defense Secretary gives a speech that is a warning for the EU. Immigration is more like invasion. Those immigrants come with an ideology of their own and have no intention of assimilating. The cultural change will break the histories of EU countries and aggravated by the radical Islam goal of conquering the World. They say convert or die.

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Blog #50 Marine Vet Platner: Uses PTSD as Excuse for Past Mistakes
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Blog #50 Marine Vet Platner: Uses PTSD as Excuse for Past Mistakes

Running for the US Senate, Platner has some of the worst personal qualities and experiences and appears to have the full support of the Democrat Party which seems to have thrown out any interest in honorable values for such a high Congressional office. Maine Democrat Graham Platner characterized the heroics described by former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell in his bestselling memoir, Lone Survivor, as a “bullshit glory story.”

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Blog #49 Military Service: Privilege, not a Constitutional Right
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Blog #49 Military Service: Privilege, not a Constitutional Right

We must continue to speak out and support and defend our Constitution against the onslaught and misinterpretation of our Constitution to fit the agenda of the leftists. Gender dysphoria is not consistent with the good order and discipline of our military and its mission.

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Blog #48
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Blog #48

Human augmentation is no longer framed primarily as a distant ethical dilemma. It is increasingly being treated by military planners, AI developers, and national security bureaucracies as an unavoidable strategic necessity. The language has changed from “should we?” to “how fast can we deploy it before our adversaries do?”

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#47 Is Cuba Our Next Military Venture?
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#47 Is Cuba Our Next Military Venture?

This article is in the Washington Free Beacon and reviews the situation in Cuba. The Socialist Cuban government is a corrupt mess that has literally turned a paradise location into a disturbing dump with destroyed buildings and desperate people.

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Blog Video #46 Iran’s War Strategy
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Blog Video #46 Iran’s War Strategy

This is a video that gives a great review of the war strategy of Iran for the past decades and with intentions to continue for decades into the future.

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Blog #44 CHECKMATE: TRUMP DROPS THE HAMMER ON IRAN
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Blog #44 CHECKMATE: TRUMP DROPS THE HAMMER ON IRAN

Iran tried to control the oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz with a toll for every oil tanker. Trump pulls a fast one by blocking all traffic. The blow to Iran will be absolutely crippling. Democrats say there is no plan. Nonetheless, it is the Democrats who never had a plan for 50 years.

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Blog #41 Army Blackhawks without Pilots??
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Blog #41 Army Blackhawks without Pilots??

The weapons for war are changing dramatically. Advances in satellite, missile, small arms, and drones has changed the battlescape forever. Now we have all types of autonomous vehicles, including helicopters.

The H-60Mx Black Hawk helicopter has been extensively modified to fly with or without a pilot at the controls. (Army)

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Blog #38 Where do the Cartels get their Military Weapons?
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Blog #38 Where do the Cartels get their Military Weapons?

A six-week nationwide gang operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) concluded this weekend with arrests across the United States – the largest gang surge conducted by HSI to date. The operation targeted gang members and associates involved in transnational criminal activity, including drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, human smuggling and sex trafficking, murder and racketeering.

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