April 26th, 2012
By Dan Miller Douglas Adams’ Ravenous Bugblatter Beast is a beacon lighting the way for government. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy clarifies much that would otherwise remain puzzling to sentient beings. With the explanations it provides, even carbon-based, bipedal ape-descended life forms on Earth — who are “so amazingly primitive that they still think […]
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Tags: Afghanistan, apology, bow, Hitchhiker's Guide, Obama, ROE, satire
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July 19th, 2011
By Dan Miller Afghanistan is a beautiful place for a lovely little war. This report is so incredible that it has to be accurate. A soldier in Afghanistan was blown up and killed by a Taliban improvised explosive device because he and others had been ordered to show “courageous restraint” when seeing IEDs being planted […]
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Tags: civilians, hearts and minds, IED, restraint, ROE, rules of engagement, Taliban
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March 23rd, 2011
By Dan Miller Training materials to be used in preparation for the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell have been made available to the Washington Times and more should soon be posted by the Department of Defense on its websites. Here are some questions and answers from the training materials: Situation — You are the […]
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Tags: DADT, gay, lesbian, Marines, ROE, satire, standards, training, USMC
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March 23rd, 2011
By Dan Miller It has been reported that twenty-two hundred Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (26th MEU) at Camp Lejuene are joining the fight against Libya…. Their mission is to help end the violence directed at the Libyan people. “In Libya right now they are doing exactly what we need them to do. […]
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Tags: 26th MEU, Libya, Marines, mission, ROE, rules of engagement, USMC
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