The Other McCain

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#DDayVA Stand Up for Veterans Today!

Today is D-Day. Stand up with @concernedvets for our veterans who served. millionvetbacklog.com/#petition #DDayVA — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 6, 2013 Obama promised to fix the backlog at Veterans Affairs. Instead, it got worse — 2,000% worse! millionvetbacklog.com/#petition PLZ RT #tcot #DDayVA — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 6, 2013

Adrian Lamo Is a Hero

Anybody who is hated by Anonymous must be doing something right: Lamo previously lived in Sacramento but went into hiding for fear of reprisals for turning in the 25-year-old soldier . . . (It is an insult to honorable soldiers to call a gutless lying cowardly dirtbag like Bradley Manning a “soldier.”) . . . […]

‘Take That Hill’

My 14-year-old son stayed home from school today sick, and put the TV on the Military Channel where, among other shows, we watched a documentary about the Battle of Hill 875 in Vietnam. To call this a battle is something of a misnomer: It was a horrible blunder, a senseless slaughter caused by poor strategy […]

He Gets His Wings Tonight!

The back of this T-shirt asks, ‘What do you do?’ So the final jump of Airborne school was supposed to happen Thursday night and graduation was supposed to be noon Friday. But the C-130 was grounded by mechanical problems, so my Army son didn’t get to make his fifth jump until about 5 p.m. Friday, […]

One More Jump …

Parents understandably proud of their college graduates. Do they know what I’ll feel if my Army son graduates from Airborne school Friday? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 15, 2013 Well, I had hoped the nerve-wracking worry would be over last night. My Army son’s training battalion did their first jump Monday, then two more […]

My Wife Is a Soldier’s Mom

Army son will be up at 4 a.m. Number 15 in his “chalk” at Airborne school — first man out of his plane in Monday’s first jump. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 13, 2013 Today was Mother’s Day, and I realized I never got around to posting the photos of my Army son’s graduation […]

Syria: Another Casualty of ‘Hope’

Reading a long New York Times article about the prevalence of Islamic extremism among Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime in a two-year civil war, I was struck by this paragraph: The religious agenda of the combatants sets them apart from many civilian activists, protesters and aid workers who had hoped the uprising would create […]

Army Plans to Cut Eight Brigades by 2017

COLUMBUS, Georgia At graduation ceremonies for my son’s infantry training unit this morning, the speaker was a retired general who sounded dire warnings about the threats facing the United States. The old man’s speech was sufficiently remarkable as to constitute actual news, so I pulled a scrap of paper out of my pocket and took […]

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