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Obama’s Playing Marbles…Putin’s Playing Chess

by Jack Mike Rogers, House Intelligence Chair, summed up the Ukraine crisis like this, “Putin is playing chess, and I think we’re playing marbles.” This exemplifies the degree of influence and statesmanship the Obama Administration’s has with Russia’s Putin and … Continue reading

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Women in Combat – A Failed Experiment

by Jack Lee In 1945 the Army and Marine’s physical fitness test included pullups, squat jumps, pushups, 2-min situps, 300 yard run, shuttle run and 60 sec-squat thrusts. In order to score excellent a recruit had to do 20 pull … Continue reading

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Christmas Stories – Americans Supporting Our Troops

by Jack   Dec 13th) My grandson was traveling in his dress blue uniform to his next duty station with some other young sailors from his unit. They stopped to get a shoe shine in Chicago’s Midway airport before flying … Continue reading

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