In the woods this weekend, trying to find $10,000. Best I can do from this neck of the woods is:
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Author: Dave Hardin
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Air Force Sgt. John Chapman’s heroic final moments, Medal of Honor to follow.
The U.S. Air Force on Thursday released an aerial video that shows highlights of Tech Sgt. John Chapman’s heroics during hand-to-hand combat on an Afghanistan peak before he was killed by Al Qaeda militants.
Chapman, 36, a native of Windsor Locks, Conn., could be seen on March 4, 2002, charging the enemy on Takur Ghar, a 10,000-foot mountain, Task & Purpose reported. Chapman joined Navy SEALs in an effort to recover a wounded comrade who had fallen from the aircraft after it was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. Chapman “charged into enemy fire through harrowing conditions,” seized a bunker and killed its occupants, the White House said.
The Air Force said he was struck and temporarily incapacited by enemy fire when he moved from one protective cover to engage the enemy.Britt K. Slabinski, a retired member of SEAL Team 6, who received the Medal of Honor in May for his heroics during the same 14-hour battle, believed Chapman was dead, and moved the team — including someone with a serious leg injury — off the battlefield, the New York Times reported.
Chapman regained consciousness and fought for an hour after being gunned down but managed to kill two more enemies, reports said.
Slabinski, who completed 15 combat tours, told the New York Times in 2016 that he was “95 percent certain” that Chapman was killed and was skeptical of the video’s accuracy and analyses. He told officials that Chapman’s actions helped save his team that day.
Slabinski retired from the Navy in 2014 after more than 25 years of service. He said following the ceremony that the medal “belongs to so many others” and named the teammates “who followed me without hesitation.” Slabinski said the medal also belongs to seven Americans who died on the mountaintop.
“They gave all for us. This honor is truly theirs. They are the true heroes,” he said in a statement delivered on the White House driveway.
But Deborah Lee James, who worked under President Obama as the Air Force secretary, said Slabinski deserves his medal and his contributions shouldn’t be underestimated.
“Nobody thinks that he did anything other than his absolute best on the worst day of his life,” James said of Slabinski, according to the Washington Post. “He thought he was dead, and he was responsible for four or five others that he was trying to save.”
President Trump will award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Chapman’s family on Aug. 22 — 16 years after he died. He will be the first airman to receive the award since the Vietnam War.
James had recommended Chapman for the award, but she said it stalled.
“I believe the SEALs want to honor John Chapman,” James told the paper. “What some don’t want is they don’t want it linked to him getting back up and fighting back on.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report
The Fog of War is a shitty thing to have to live with. Brave men doing their best in the midst of chaos.
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Crazed Lunatic stalks Dakota Meyer
Some goofy guy named Shawn Christy thinks its a good idea to go after President Trump and Dakota Meyer.
The FBI says the man wanted for making threats against war hero Dakota Meyer and President Donald Trump stole a vehicle and may be in West Virginia.
Investigators say they are looking for a 2001 Jeep Cherokee they believe was stolen by Shawn Christy. A grand jury indicted Christy for threats to the President and law enforcement officers.
A pickup believed to be stolen by Christy was found in Adair County Saturday, leading investigators to search throughout the area.
The FBI is now offering a $10,000 award.
If any of you Hillbillies, and I know who you are, see the guy who stole a car from Dakota’s brother up in dem dar hills…there is $10,000 in it fer ya.
Federal authorities are still searching for a man who threatened President Trump and Kentucky war hero Dakota Meyer.
Shawn Christy, a 27-year old Pennsylvania native, is wanted by the FBI after threatening the president and numerous others, including police officers.
Recently, he threatened Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer from Kentucky.
The FBI says the suspect’s pickup truck was found in the Portland community of Adair County near Meyer’s home.
Authorities say Christy stole the vehicle in West Virginia and drove it to Kentucky.
The search has been focused in Adair County after the car was found abandoned in the area.
Authorities say he may be clean shaven and appear different from before.
The search for Christy is being conducted by the Secret Service, FBI and US Marshals.
Shawn Christy: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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Cabela’s, and its parent company, Bass Pro in court on Gun Charges
The estate of Bryan Galliher — through Columbus-based law firm Cooper & Elliott and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence — filed the lawsuit Tuesday morning in the Wayne County Court of Common Pleas.
In the complaint, attorneys argued Cabela’s, and its parent company, Bass Pro Group LLC, violated state law by selling a “black powder gun” — a replica of an antique firearm made from modern materials — to Paul R. Claren, the Orrville man who killed Galliher using the gun in August 2016.
The lawsuit alleges that Cabela’s knew, or should have known, about Claren’s violent past, and therefore should not have sold him the black powder revolver.
“Cabela’s and its employees knew and/or should have known firearms law in Ohio, the state in which it was operating, including the law that prohibited Cabela’s from selling a black powder firearm to Claren,” the complaint states.
The lawsuit alleges that Claren purchased an 1858 Army .44-caliber black powder revolver from Cabela’s over the phone in December 2014. In July 2016, Cabela’s also sold Claren a black powder loading kit that he used to load the revolver, the lawsuit states.
Harry Campbell, a police officer and chief investigator for the Stark County Coroner’s Office, testified during the trial that under federal firearms regulations, anyone could purchase the type of pistol Claren used without going through an FBI background check. He added Ohio law is more restrictive when it comes to convicted felons.
I am unfamiliar with Ohio law specific to this idea that they must run some kind of a background check different than that which is required by Federal law. Does Ohio have some mechanism by which you can see the criminal history of anyone wanting to purchase a firearm? Many questions unasked in this article. If he was not required to fill out a Form 4473, how does the gun shop know if he is not supposed to have a Black Powder Pistol? Maybe the Buckeye state has a system that I just don’t know about. You can read the whole thing HERE.
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Army No Longer Giving Immigrants the Boot
I had no idea they were doing this in the first place. The U.S. Army has stopped discharging immigrant recruits who enlisted seeking a path to citizenship, at least temporarily. A memo shared with The Associated Press on Wednesday and dated July 20 spells out orders to high-ranking Army officials to stop processing discharges of men and women who enlisted in the special immigrant program, effective immediately. It was not clear how many recruits were impacted by the action.
“Effective immediately, you will suspend processing of all involuntary separation actions,” read the memo signed by Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Marshall Williams.
The disclosure comes one month after the AP reported that dozens of immigrant enlistees were being discharged or had their contracts cancelled. Some said they were given no reason for their discharge. Others said the Army informed them they’d been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because the Defense Department had not completed background checks on them.
I can understand the security concerns, I also think this program does offer a way to citizenship that is earned. Not sure why the Army had not completed background checks on these people before they were put on Active Duty.
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Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Zac Edwards Saving Marriage
Edwards and his wife, Cindy, had just gotten married at Orange Beach on Aug 2. The two were posing for photographs on the beach when a woman told them someone was struggling in the water, Fox 10 reported.
There were reportedly red flags along the beach, and lifeguards on duty were busy saving someone else. So Edwards, a Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class and a former lifeguard, jumped into action. He stripped off his shirt and ran for the water.
“I wasn’t going to let him drown,” Edwards told the Pensacola News Journal, which reported the Coast Guard member approached the man with a flotation device.
“He kept saying, ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,’” Edwards recalled. “My goal was to keep his head out of the water.”
First responders soon arrived to the scene, where they helped Edwards and the man, a Mississippi high school student, get to shore.
“I didn’t think that the day that changed my family’s life for the better would change another family’s life for the better too,” the groom recalled.
He said that while he was in the water, all he could think about was Cindy.
Much respect to Petty Officer Edwards for a job well done. It never hurts a marriage when the groom goes out of his way to impress his bride on the wedding day.
Cindy Edwards said she got a package deal, telling Fox 10 she got a “hero and hubby in the same day.”
Now that the Spousal Unit seen that, she will take advantage of it at every opportunity. Fast forward 10 years, “Oh, you can save lives when everyone is watching but you won’t take the trash out on you own”.
Pace yourself Edwards, you are in this for the long haul.
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Friday morning feel good stories
I didn’t have time to find much worth posting, but there is this little gem. I am telling you men, you never know what that woman roaming around your compound has got on her mind.
An Arkansas woman was arrested Saturday after telling police she shot and killed her husband because he bought pornography, officials said.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release it received a call around 2:30 p.m. from 69-year-old Patricia Hill, who told dispatchers she just shot her 65-year-old husband, Frank.
When police arrived at the home, located about 36 miles south of Little Rock, they found Frank Hill dead in a shed on the property. Hill sustained two gunshot wounds to the upper and lower body, according to police.
The sheriff’s office said that during an interview with Hill, she told investigators she arrived home and went to the shed on her property to confront her husband, but there had never been any physical altercations between the couple.“However, Mrs. Hill stated that she disagreed with her husband’s purchase of video pornography via the television guide, which she canceled upon discovering the purchase, but Mr. Hill managed to place a subsequent order,” Maj. Lafayette Woods, Jr. said. “Mrs. Hill stated that she entered the shed and asked her husband to leave but he refused.”
When her husband didn’t leave the shed, Hill told investigators she went back to their home and got a .22 caliber pistol.
“She went back to the shed a short time later, where she entered and shot her husband twice, striking him once in the leg and once in the head,” Woods said. “Immediately following the shooting, Mrs. Hill stated that she returned inside the residence, where she returned the weapon and called 911 to report the shooting.”
At this point, investigators do not believe the incident had anything to do with self-defense.
Watch yourselves this weekend gentlemen, its a rough cruel world out there.
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Six Marine lieutenants face separation after allegedly cheating on land navigation course
Since were were talking about Navigation anyway, I thought THIS would fit in nicely.
The old military stereotype that lieutenants are inept at land navigation has circulated for ages.
But a recent incident at The Basic School — a course for newly commissioned officers aboard Quantico, Virginia — may be giving it added credence.
Six officers are now facing expulsion from the Corps following allegations of cheating during the land navigation portion of training at The Basic School, or TBS.
Marine Corps Training and Education Command, or TECOM, described the incident as “misconduct” in an emailed statement to Marine Corps Times.
“The six officers are being processed for administrative separation,” TECOM said.
It seems this is not the first time, I doubt it will be the last.
In May 2010, 13 junior officers were booted from the Corps after Marine officials found the young lieutenants had used cheat sheets to help them locate the land navigation points.
Ok, I must come clean about the Lt. and map thing. By the time I became a Platoon Sgt I had already been to most training areas a dozen times. Chicken Road was no mystery to me. Roaming around 29 Palms CA can be daunting for anyone the first time. I might have let a few of them wonder around a bit, but I only knew where I was because I had been there a dozen times while he had been pissing his life away with all that educational nonsense.
I may have been lucky, but I served with some fine Officers. The entire story is HERE
In a related story, it’s the job of the Platoon Sergeant to look after his Lt. so he can grow a pair and become a fine Officer and unrepentant Leader of Warriors.
There is a great story on how a responsible Platoon Sergeant burps and changes his Lt. HERE
