Archive for March, 2009

What happens when Bunnies get sent to Delta Force Training?  Why “Cat Shit One,” of course!  This is a possible Japanese Anime series?  Definitely Adult Swim fare.  I don’t know whether to laugh, be insulted, or both.  Wish I knew Japanese.

Trailer after the jump, as usual.

I just discovered this tonight.  Geoff Tate, singer and songwriter, created an album that has come from his experiences interviewing soldiers from WWII through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.  According to his posts, he was talking with his father about what it meant to “Support the Troops” and discovered something much deeper.  He ended up taping the conversations and showing them to his family.  His wife told him he should write a song, but his own journey led him to write an entire album based on interviews with many veterans and soldiers.

Although I have never been big on what I consider “Hair Band” type music, the song that was on the website sounded pretty good.  I have to applaud Geoff Tate and Queensryche for attempting to convey such heavy subjects through music.  I couldn’t find anything about whether or not any proceeds would go to help soldiers or veterans though.  At any rate, it surprised me to see not just a whole song, but an entire album dedicated to soldiers.  The site has some more information and the album is due out at the end of March.

Here is the Amazon link, and I’ll put some bullets after the break for those whose ADD might preclude them from searching through the site themselves..

So I guess this bat wanted to be a part of the space program so badly that he was willing to do anything.

Picked this up off of Jems and thought it was interesting.  However, I don’t think its the “Pentagon” honoring combat medics, just this particular doctor.

Well, if they do decide to set up a memorial to combat medics, corpsman, and the like, I would encourage everyone to support it.

So I saved a life yesterday.  Granted it wasn’t a wounded soldier.  It wasn’t even a civilian, but it was a life nonetheless.

I’ll just post a brief summary and let you read the original.  Its a great piece.  This SSG got awarded a Silver Star and a Distinguished Flying Cross in the same ceremony for different actions.  No wonder they want him at the Flight Medic School.

When the helicopters arrived at the small mountain village, the pilots hovered while both flight medics were lowered to the ground, according to the narrative, and once on the ground, Kinney immediately took charge.

The medics found the wounded soldiers crammed into a small mud and rock building.

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