During 2010, I researched, wrote and published several stories about issues impacting people on the front lines in defense of this country. I revisit some of those stories below: MICHAEL BEHENNA 1st Lt. Michael Behenna On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1st. Lt. Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a [...]
Top Three Defense Stories of 2010 Revisited
December 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Experts Agree: It Was A Missile
November 20th, 2010 · 35 Comments
In a post Nov. 9 about the apparent launch of a missile off the California coast one day earlier, I wrote: As a former Air Force public affairs officer who served for nearly two years with the 381st Strategic Missile Wing — think Titan II ICBMs — at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., [...]
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Missile Launch Incident Raises Serious Questions
November 9th, 2010 · 8 Comments
As a former Air Force public affairs officer who served for nearly two years with the 381st Strategic Missile Wing — think Titan II ICBMs — at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., I can guarantee with 100 percent certainty that officials inside the Pentagon know the exact location from which the large missile [...]
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Army Mom Pens Powerful Letter to Army Secretary
October 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Fresh on the heels of publishing a piece about Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna’s upcoming review by the Army Court of Appeals, I decided to share — with permission — the text of a letter written by Beverly Perlson — the spark plug behind pro-troops group, The Band of Mothers — to Secretary of [...]
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Will Military’s Homeland Security Mission Grow?
July 10th, 2010 · 11 Comments
One and a half years ago, the folks at the CATO Institute published a piece under the headline, Be Wary of Using Military as Police. In the opening paragraph, they offered a warning of sorts: The mainstream media has finally gotten around to reporting that the Pentagon has assigned active-duty troops to a homeland defense [...]
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Franklin Graham Stands Up for Christians on CNN
May 5th, 2010 · No Comments
During an interview with CNN’s Campbell Brown yesterday, Rev. Franklin Graham criticized Pentagon leaders for rescinding his invitation to speak at a National Day of Prayer service at the Pentagon and for pretending “everything is okay” if we cave in to the demands of a couple of people (i.e., Muslims). Asked by Brown if he [...]
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Behenna Case Goes to Army Clemency Board
January 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments
EDITOR’S NOTE: The case of 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, the Army Ranger officer who has been featured in 18 posts to date on this blog as a result of him being wrongly convicted of unpremeditated murder in the self-defense shooting death of a known Al-Qaeda terrorist, goes before the Army Clemency Board Thursday in Arlington, [...]
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