Words escape me on this one. I was ROFLMAO.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
US MILITARY TRIBUTE
This video needs no explanation. These men and women are ours and we must be sure we have their backs. The way things are going with our new government, that is in question. There is no doubt in my mind.
THE VIETNAM SONG (SAD BUT TRUE)
Never will the heros of today be treated the way our Vietnam heros were treated.
Friday, February 27, 2009
3 students, 1 adult shot after classes end at Jordan High
Looks like a busy start to the weekend here in Houston. This is getting all to common.
Four people, including three Houston school district students, were shot shortly after classes were dismissed this afternoon at Barbara Jordan High School, officials said.
A 17-year-old junior at Jordan was shot about 4 p.m. while crossing the 4000 block of Kelley to get into his uncle's car, said Houston ISD spokesman Norm Uhl. He was taken to LBJ Hospital and may be released tonight, Uhl said.
The student's uncle was also shot, officials said late Friday. His condition is not known.
He had been involved in an altercation at a nearby convenience store, Friendly Tommy Grocery, at 4003 Kelley, officials said.
Moments later, two girls who were sitting at the Kashmere Transit Center at the corner of Hirsch and Kelley were shot, said Metro spokeswoman Carolina Mendoza. One girl attended Jordan and the other Kashmere High School, Uhl said.
They were taken to Ben Taub General Hospital, one with a gunshot to the face and one with a gunshot to the leg, said Metro spokesman George Smalley.
Authorities are working to determine if the shootings, and the teens, are related.
``A relative of the young man who was shot does know the two girls,'' Smalley said.
Three men fled after the shootings, he added.
Both incidents remain under investigation and no further information was immediately available.
Airman to Receive Air Force Cross
Knight Ridder/Tribune | February 27, 2009
A Pope Air Force Base, N.C., combat controller is scheduled to receive the Air Force's second highest award for valor on March 10 in a ceremony at the Pentagon.
Staff Sgt. Zachary J. Rhyner will receive the Air Force Cross for his actions on April 6 in the Shok Valley in Afghanistan. Although shot in the left leg, he called in airstrikes, fired his M-4 rifle at the enemy and helped move other wounded people down a cliff.
Rhyner is assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command's 21st Special Tactics Squadron at Pope. At the time of the incident, Rhyner was a senior airman who had completed training less than a year earlier.
Combat controllers train for two years at Pope and elsewhere to do mostly covert missions in hostile territory. The "battlefield airmen" can parachute or infiltrate into enemy territory to set up drop zones, do air-traffic control or call in aircraft to shoot or drop bombs on the enemy. They often work on an Army Special Forces or Navy SEAL team and fight alongside soldiers and sailors while summoning Air Force firepower from overhead. The aircraft often are firing near "friendly" forces on the ground.
Rhyner is credited with saving his team from being overrun twice in a 6-hour battle in the Shok Valley. Members of A-Team 3336 from Fort Bragg's 3rd Special Forces Group received 10 Silver Stars, the Army's third highest award for combat valor, for their actions in that engagement.
About 100 Special Forces and Afghan soldiers each were carrying more than 60 pounds of equipment when they jumped from helicopters onto icy, jagged rocks and waist-deep running water in 30-degree temperatures to assault a terrorist stronghold in Afghanistan. Their objective was at the top of the mountains surrounding the valley.
They were ambushed by 200 enemy fighters, and Rhyner was shot within the first 15 minutes, according to an account from the Air Force Special Operations Command. The team came under fire from all directions from snipers, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
Capt. Kyle Walton, the Special Forces team leader, treated Rhyner for his injuries as the Airman called in Apache attack helicopters.
Rhyner called in 4,570 rounds of cannon fire, nine Hellfire missiles, 162 rockets, 12 500-pound bombs and a 2,000-pound bomb, Air Force officials said.
Air Force officials estimate that 40 enemy were killed and 100 wounded in the engagement.
Rhyner is the second Pope airmen to receive the award since Sept.11, 2001. Air Force Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman, also a combat controller, posthumously received the Air Force Cross for heroism under fire on March 4, 2002, near Gardez in the eastern highlands of Afghanistan. In 2005, The Military Sealift Command named a cargo ship the MV T Sgt. John A. Chapman in honor of the ''battlefield Airman'' in a ceremony at Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
See If You Can Find Old Soldier
The big conference is over, and my butt is sour from sitting for two days. It was well worth it though. Our company has been in business for 29 years, and we are still privately owned. That says a lot as we are a global company. This is a picture that was taken today in fron of our corporate headquarters, see if you can find me. Shouldn't be hard, I am the good looking one. HA.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday Hero
19 years old from Knox, Pennsylvania
1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
December 4, 2006
His mission was to patrol the streets of Adhamiyah in northeast Baghdad and find a place to put a 250-kilowatt generator that would provide electricity for more than 100 homes. But it's a mission he wasn't able to accomplish.
Shortly after Pfc. McGinnis's convoy left the compound, and less than a mile from FOB Apache, an insurgent standing on a nearby rooftop threw a grenade into the sixth, and last, Humvee. "Grenade!" yelled McGinnis, who was manning the vehicle's M2 .50-caliber machine gun. He tried to deflect the grenade but it fell into the Humvee and lodged between the radios.
"McGinnis turned and looked down and realized no one in the truck knew where the grenade was," said Capt. Michael Baka, his company commander. "He knew everyone had their doors combat-locked and they wouldn't be able to get out."
Instead of jumping out of the truck to save his own life, like he had been trained to do, McGinnis threw his back against the radio mount, smothering the explosive with his body. The grenade exploded just as Pfc. McGinnis covered it. The blast filled the vehicle with black smoke and debris and blew the driver's door and right passenger's door wide open and blew the machine gun off its mount. The explosion hit McGinnis on his sides and his lower back, under his vest. He was killed instantly.
The other four soldiers in the Humvee suffered relatively minor injuries.
On the morning of December 4, 2006, before his convoy had left, Cpt. Baka has signed a waver promoting Pfc. McGinnis to Specialist and he was posthumously promoted to E-4.
For his heroic actions on that day, McGinnis was awarded the Silver Star and was nominated for a Medal of Honor which he received on June 2, 2008.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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Going To Be A Long Week
We have our sales and technical folks in from our overseas offices (Korea, France, Switzerland and New Zealand) this week. All are gathered here in Houston at our corporate office and we will have a two day conference starting tomorrow, with a dinner and dance to end it all all on Thursday. I have a hard time sitting still for very long, but I guess I will have to adjust. It's kind of nice to get to meet our overseas visitors and they really love it here in Houston. The weather has and will be perfect this week, highs in the upper 70's and clear skys. I being in network admin am having to do a lot of extra work though. My blogging ability will be slim for this week.
Sphere: Related ContentSunday, February 22, 2009
Bad Day For Me Today
Well my Sunday started out pretty good, sitting in garage watching the news and having a nice cup of coffee, when my cell phone rang, and it was from my sister. I thought why would she be calling me on a Sunday morining, which she never does. Well I answered it, and she was speaking very fast and I could not understand her, so I calmed her down, and she said Mama has been in a very bad car accident. Mama was on her way to my sisters house where she was having her 86th birthday party. To cut this short, it seems that my Mom who was driving her Buick, hit a car that was stopped and making a turn. She came around a bend in the road and didn't see the car (a VW) in time and hit her going about 40 mph. Mom's airbag did not deploy, so she hit the steering wheel and busted her mouth and ribs. She hurt her fingers and foot. Her car is pretty bad and could be total loss. The girl in the car she hit got a few stitches. Mom was taken to the hospital via ambulance. After clean up and cat scans, it seems that nothing was broken, but then wanted to keep her overnight. She said no way, I want to go home, which she did. My Mom is very stuborn. I just got off of the phone with her, and she is soar, but doing ok. My other sister is staying with her now. Her main concern was that she had caused all of the worry for everyone and ruined the party. This will be an 86th to remember.
Sphere: Related ContentSaturday, February 21, 2009
This is Just A Reminder And To Many Seem To Be Forgetting What Happened To Us.
This may piss some of you off, but I don't care. George Bush did the right thing. Remember back, how strange it was to look up in the sky and not see any planes flying, and living in Houston close to The InterCon Air Port it was really strange. I hope our new government dosen't forget, because we never will.
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