as you can see the Marine Team is in the lead for the project valour-it fundraising competition. thank you so much if you’ve donated and if you haven’t, the competition goes through veterans day so you still have a wee bit of time!
you can go here and make your contribution now and [...]

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thanks to friends all over the blogasphere, the Marine Team is holding on to the lead - swatting back the army, navy, and air force - in the valour-it fundraising contest. if you have contributed, thank you. if you are still considering it, please go here. it means so much to so [...]

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it was the deadliest day of the iraq war for american military women…
“Just as Padmore reached the scene, he saw Saalman staggering toward him, her charred, flayed hands held up before her, her eyes vacant in a blackened face. She’d lost her rifle during the explosion. “Sally, pull yourself together,” he said. “You are not [...]

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today’s Marine of the day is Major Doug Zembiec. i could never paraphrase what cassandra wrote so go read it, you’ll never forget it.
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on the fundraising front: the good news is, we’re still holding onto the lead in the project valour-it fundraising competition despite yeoman efforts from the army, navy, and air force. [...]

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“We don’t grow little boys and girls to be Marines. These are great Americans before we get them. We’re just giving them the opportunity to do extraordinary things.” Sgt. Maj. Alford L. McMichael, US Marine Corps
having said that, this was shamelessly lifted from cassandra’s blog - it’s fun!
US Marine [...]

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i have to say i love the military - all branches - but i especially love the marines. the fundraising competition between the 4 teams (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines) is really starting to heat up — like this horrible, horrible accusation by the air force team that we marines eat puppies!

marine baby [...]

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“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference to the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem…” President Ronald Reagan
cassandra reports that yesterday was a good day for project Valour-IT and Marine team.
we took an early and commanding lead only to [...]

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when our country has a crisis either here or abroad, who do we call on to go in and take care of business? yep, you’re right - america’s 911 response team: the marines!

have you heard of Project Valour IT? it’s a program through soldiers angels that provides laptops with voice activated software [...]

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it is no secret that my friend iowahawk is a great patron of the arts. stealing the idea from the feds, he recently established the ‘Iowahawk Endowment for the Arts’ using money he pilfered from his kid’s sock drawer to promote his ‘$33.18 Steel Cage Art Death Match‘ art contest.

generous patron of the arts, [...]

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not only was that AF1 photo op bad taste and insensitive, but entirely unnecessary. check out this competition of sorts: and shut up! the new york daily news DID NOT just use ‘pimped out’!!! heh.

air force lost

air force sistine

yankee flyover

we knew this was coming right? proof positive that for $300 The [...]

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