This is apparently how REAL Recon Marines spend the day of the Rapture.

Results:
1st Place: Reconnaissance Training Company
2nd Place: 4th Force Recon Co
3rd Place: 1st Force Recon Co

It looks like it was a good time for them. And, if you check the past results, 1st Recon dominates! I think BRC had it in for them this year.

Some people were asking if Real!Nate was going to chime in on the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Well, here you go. Although I'm still mining the CNAS FB page for more stuff, this is a start.

I like what Tom Ricks had to say, too. He might make more of a statement over on Foreign Policy Magazine, and if he does, I'll link to it.

I'm not sure if this awesome webcomic has been shared yet, but I've recently come across a pretty neat online comic strip written and drawn by a grunt in the Marine Corp.

"Terminal Lance is a comic created by myself, Lance Corporal Maximilian Uriarte, USMC. The idea behind Terminal Lance is to poke fun at the Marine Corps much like Gunny Wolf’s ( Read more... )

This is an interview Nate and a number of other Washington think tank/journalism military types did on The Diane Rehm Show last month, and one of the topics was the current push for the repeal of DADT. Thought it might be of interest to folks here. Nate speaks on this topic starting at about 24:00 and the discussion continues until about 30:00. ( Read more... )

After reading HBO's newsletter about its new site I went check out the GK page. It's really cool with some nice big pictures of the cast, videos, wallpapers, etc. I don't think that there's a lot of new stuff, but the big pictures are great, and some of them are new to me.

Just a heads up for those GK fans who don't know about it, yet.:)

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For anyone interested in the literary side of things, G-Kill has a page over at TVTropes. I didn't create it, but I've made some contributions: Heroic BSOD, The Woobie, and Xanatos Gambit are my additions, along with some editing here and there.

It's also listed as an example under quite a few tropes and used in some discussions, some of which ( Read more... )