The Stories You Don't Know

Posted By Blackfive

The most popular series on Blackfive.net is Someone You Should Know.  Also, check out Someone You Should Know Radio podcasts (from Pundit Review Radio also available at iTunes).

Two of the best resources are MilBlogs and Milblogging.  Military.com also highlights some of the military blogs.

Spouses are probably the biggest force multiplier that the military has.  SpouseBuzz.com is coming to Camp Pendleton next weekend.  I continue to be impressed by this group of women and men.

Acute Politics and Badgers Forward, among others, are frequently mentioned as great writers in the war zone (Iraq).

American Soldier, returned home from Iraq, has some thoughts about Walter Reed.

More to follow...

Update:  Pundit Review's Kevin Whalen visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center and interviewed some of our wounded troops.  Great post.  Must read/listen to the podcasts.

Update 2:  Griff's Notes (Producer/journalist for Fox News and Fox Radio) has a spot about the MilBlog Conference.

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[Jimbo]

Another successful day for the US in Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Two suicide car bombers attacked a market and a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramadi, killing at least 20 people and dealing a blow to recent U.S. claims of success in reclaiming the Sunni city from insurgents.

The violence came a day after roadside bombs killed eight American soldiers, including six who died in a single blast in the surrounding province of Diyala. The mounting U.S. casualty toll highlights the dangers facing troops as they take to the streets more as part of a security crackdown in the Baghdad area.

The first attack targeted a public market about noon northwest of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, killing 10 civilians and wounding about 30, police said.

About 15 minutes later, another bomber detonated his vehicle at a nearby police checkpoint, killing five police officers and five bystanders and wounding 10 others, police said.

The U.S. military has struggled for years to secure Ramadi, the capital of the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province.

[Gitmo675]

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahah

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/world/middleeast/29reconstruct.html?ex=1178683200&en=ad2379295446116e&ei=5070

In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.

The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success — in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections — were no longer working properly.

[Michael in MI]

Thank you for these links, Matt. You do a great job continuing to get the good word out there. Keep up the good work.

[Ymarsakar]

I wonder if Grim knows how much the Islamic jihad pays for their freelancers... I might sign up if it was enough.