SPC Ross McGinnin Nominated for Medal of Honor
Army Specialist Ross McGinnis has been posthumously nominated for the Medal of Honor for diving on a grenade to save his squad mates. Spc. Ross A. McGinnis has been nominated by his commanders for the Medal of Honor, said Maj. Sean Ryan, a spokesman for 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. On Dec. 4, while on duty in Baghdad, Iraq, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 13, 2006 14:05
Rumsfeld Says War Critics Appeasing New Fascism
A friend of mine emailed an MSNBC reprint of an AP story reporting that Don Rumsfeld today likened critics of the Iraq War to those who tried to appease Hitler in the 1930s. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease "a new type of fascism." In unusually ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 29, 2006 20:20
Army Considering Fort Belvoir Amusement Park
Living as I do very near Fort Belvoir, I read with interest this morning's A1 piece in WaPo about the Army's plans to build a giant amusement park and hotel complex in land owned by the base. Army officials say they are considering allowing a private developer to build a 125-acre entertainment, hotel and conference center complex next to a national ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 8, 2006 14:45
Court Directed Public Humiliation for Lying
Nothing like a little public humiliation for making a false official statement. Out of Whitefish, Montana come the story of a man sentenced to wear a sandwich-board stating "I am a liar. I am not a Marine. I have never served my country." A Whitefish man was sentenced Thursday to spend 50 hours wearing a sandwich board with the words, “I ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 9, 2006 00:25
Tom Hanks into Army’s Ranger Hall of Fame
Tom Hanks has been inducted into the Army Ranger Hall of Fame. Actor Tom Hanks was inducted Thursday as an honorary member of the U.S. Army's Ranger Hall of Fame for his accurate portrayal of a World War II Army Ranger company commander in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" and for his continued commitment to honoring those who served in the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 30, 2006 15:15
Congress and Military Service
Jack Murtha unleashed the chickehawk meme in the halls of Congress, castigating Patrick McHenry for vowing to continue the fight against Islamic extremists. (Video of McHenry's remarks here.) "It is easy to stay in an air-conditioned office and say, 'I am going to stay the course,' " he said, angrily, after Mr. McHenry, who never served in the military, was ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 25, 2006 08:27
Flag Burning Amendment Unnecessary and Unpatriotic
Bob Kerrey, who earned a Medal of Honor for his service as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, argues against amending the Constitution to prohibit flag burning. Unfortunately, enthusiasm for this amendment appears to have grown even as flag-burning incidents have vanished as a means of political protest. The last time I saw an image of the U.S. flag being desecrated in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 15, 2006 14:51
Media Downplays Heroes, Overplays Atrocities
Jennifer Harper points to a new study showing that a "bad news bias" has led the national media to overemphasize negative stories about the military while providing virtually no coverage of heroes and other positive stories. Broadcasters continue to target the military, according to an analysis by the Media Research Center (MRC), which has detected a pronounced "bad news bias." ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 14, 2006 13:06
Racial Profiling and Counterterrorism
The Examiner editorial board weighs into the controversial description of 17 Middle Eastern terrorists suspects arrested in Canada last week as coming from "the broad strata of our community." [I]n the PC world — where no culture is any “better” or “worse” than any other — nobody is allowed to speak in any way that might ever be conceived as an ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 9, 2006 11:58
John McCain Booed at New School Commencement
Senator John McCain was booed and otherwise rudely received at New York's New School University, where he delivered a commencement address at the invitation of its president, Bob Kerrey, his former colleague and fellow Vietnam veteran. AP: Senator John McCain of Arizona received a cantankerous reception during his appearance at the New School commencement Friday, where dozens of faculty members and students ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 20, 2006 11:54
