Lt Col P's Archives
Start and Stop
Yorktown!
And Now It Gets Interesting
Fires and Firewood
More Steps Forward
MRAP It Up, I'll Take It
My Rant of the Day: the Over-Use of "Under-Resourcing"
Afghanistan: Yes, We "CAN"
The Anglosphere: It Must Be Preserved
Brother, Can You Spare a Firing Pin?
Condition White
Magazine Bleg
Justice For One = Justice For All
Coming Back Up For Air
"Putting Faces to the Names On the Vietnam Memorial"
Good Deal: US Biathlon Rifle up for Auction at Gunbroker
A Very Bad Mistake
Smack-Down in Somalia
The Chesapeake Flotilla
RIP: Sgt Jeremiah McGraw, USMCR
Mushkil
9/12 And Beyond
11 Sep 2009
Project 2,996: Op-For Remembers
Military Fire & Rescue Humor
Weapons Wednesday
Gaze In The Military
Now That's More Like It
Butt-Fucking Quitters, Part I
Ahoy, From U.S.S. Eggers
A Flying Tiger Passes
Section Training
The Care & Feeding of the Military Chaplain
Disbursing Humor
Minor Annoyances
Disconcertingly Blunt
A Sensible Plan for an Afghan Air Force
The M.O.D. Squad
Anybody Else Hear That??
Never Set "Patterns"
D I S G R A C E
Election Day, Afghanistan, Part II
Election Day, Afghanistan
O2BN... AFGHANISTAN!
Marines Field All-Female Unit in Afghanistan
Potentials and Pitfalls in the Afghan Election
O2BNQ8... 4ANOTHERDAYOR2
O2BNQ8
Marines Continue to Press Gains in Dahaneh
Sketchpad Warrior Back from Afstan
Gun-Day Monday: Bullets and Bullet Placement
Ayo Gurkhali!
Forts
RIP: Rule 5 at 5:00
A Damn Fine Piece of News
Range Time: Table III
Medal of Honor Count Questioned?
Stay Outta My Parking Spot!
Great Warchief No Speak With Forked Tongue
The Ploesti Raid
The One-Niner-Eight
SOP Afternoon for Camp Lejeune
I Feel Kinda Like St Sebastian
Getting Ready
SWJ Writing Competition
VMI and the USMC Colonel Command Screening Board
Still Edible After 40
Today, Lejeune; Tomorrow, The World!
News From Mazar-i-Sharif
Gen McChrystal's Tactical Directive
The Trouble With 'Terps
More On EMP
More From Helmand Province
"Livin' The Dream, Sir"
Operations Continue in Southern Afghanistan
Five-Letter Word, Means "Standing At Attention"
"First Mission"
Smoke 'Em... If You Can Get 'Em
Marines, Mules, Mountains
Room Temperature: Robert Strange McNamara
Wounded Warrior Regiment Founder Retires
More On The Fourth: "To Our Country!"
The Fourth!
Tactical Arms: New Season
The Best Defense: Survival
Strike Of The Sword
Colonel Kenneth Reusser, USMC; 1920-2009
Haze-Gray, Underway, and HEARD-FROM-TODAY
Reading and Taking Care of Family
Gun-Day Sunday: "And Pass The Ammunition!"
E-Mail Tag-Line
Gun-Day Sunday: Trigger Control, and the K31
"Fix Bayonets"
GOOD SOLID C.O.I.N. ADVICE
They Sikh Only To Serve
Doc H Preparing to Launch
Gross Disrespect
2d MEB on Duty
Wounded Warriors Head for the Top of North America
A Lovely Sight
The Danger of the Instant Jihadist
Gun-Day Sunday... Ammo and Whatnot
One Step Backwards
Memorial Day 2009
IDF Humor
The Candy Bomber
VMI'S CLASS OF 2009
Gun-Day Sunday: PTP Lead-Slinging
Opportunity, Missed
New Market Day 2009
Irregular Warfare Requires New Leaders
Monday Motivation
Self-Inflicted Casualties
Ospreys to Every Clime and Place
Doc H Marches On
Gun-Day Monday: Training and the .22
The Navy Cross and "The Sweetest Deal Ever"
GI Film Festival
On Torture: Getting Warmer
Swine Flu
Breaking News: Jews on Cruise Defuse Pirates' Ruse!
Scheuer Shanks The Prez
Twenty Years Down
"Asked" or "Tasked"??
"Let Them Experience a Pirate Attack..."
Pirate Freakshow Begins
More On Ricks and the Service Academies
Shameless VMI Real Estate Agent Plug
Yeah, We've Seen It
Doc H Preps for Afstan
More Detail on Capt Phillips Rescue
GOT 'EM!
Wallowing
King Of Battle
Pentagon Discusses 2006 Lebanon War
Detailed AAR: Minuteman Rifle Course, 4-5 April 09
Quick AAR: Minuteman Rifle Course, 4-5 April 09
Outstanding New Marine Officer Commercial
Sustaining Section 654, Title 10, U.S. Code
NATO Now Eligible for Social Security
Where Are They When We Need Them?
Medical Monday: Doc H Mounts Out
GWOT's The Point?
Lightning *In* The Sky
Afghanistan Round-Up
Phrogs' Phinal Phlight
Brass Balls
Miscellaneous Monday
New Israeli Defense Minister?
By The Way, Lafayette Says Where The Hell Y'all Been??
Yes, We Can
"The War Is Lost"?
Gun-day Monday: Rifle Course in April
Marathon Monday
MORE TO FOLLOW
How Now, Brown Cow? Chow!
Harsh Words, Hard Consequences
I Say, Old Chap, Who *Are* These People??
Another Star in the VMI Galaxy
Friday Free-Play
Five More Senior DOD Posts Filled
Well, Not Anymore
Iowa Guard Training: Good Idea or Bad Idea?
The Can-Am Alliance
Uncommon Valor
Gun-Day Monday: Carbines Gone Wild
Gun-Day Sunday: Corrosive Ammo Bleg
VD Roundup
Call Them "XE"
V.A. Nuttiness
Close, But Not Quite
AQ On The Gim??
Ship Aground
Keep The Torch Lit
RIP, Colonel Stockwell
Meet The Growler
J.O.E. SAYS WATCH OUT
Go West This Summer
Good Eats, Op-For Style
REAR ADM McKNIGHT '78: Heard From Today
VMI ECON DEPT: Heard From Today
Docs on Skis
Reporting From Afghanistan
The Never Ending Small Arms Caliber Debate
Out With The Old, In With The New
The Time Is Now-- 1850...
Gun-Day Monday: At The NRA HQ Range
Gun-Day Sunday, Part 2: M1 Carbine Bleg
Gun-Day Sunday: Good Gun Shows on TV
Inaugural Info: The VMI Angle
Inaugural Info
Open For Comment
Torch-Bearer Headed to Afghanistan
USMC Selections and Promotions
Gold Wings
And Your Point Is???
Monday Miscellany
What, They Should Quit While They're Ahead??
Ding-Ding! Ding-Ding! 2008, Departing...
The Christmas Take, 2008
Sounds Like a P.L.A.N.
Merry Christmas To All
John-- Please Tell Us You've Been Here!
C Minus 8
Yon On Afghanistan
C Minus 10
Leadership 101
Drill Weekend Jump
VMI Corps On The March
Gott In Himmel!
A Pair of Not-For-The-Better Changes
VMI's 11th Rhodes Scholar
Gun-Day Sunday: Magazines and "Wifles"
Military Rifles
Help from Abroad
Gun-Day Sunday: Range Time with Vlad
Civil War Preservation in the Valley
Scorched Earth Jihad
Gun-Day Monday (?)
Veterans Day In Loudoun County
Happy Birthday, Keydets!
Happy Birthday, Marines!
'04 Roanoker Blogs From Iraq
Colonel Ripley: In Every Clime and Place
Reserves Get Overdue Respect... Up North
Marathon Day!
25 Years Gone -- But Not Forgotten
Space Ops Sunday
Danke... NOT!
Sunny Days in DC
The Cost Of War-- Literally
Naval Gunfire Going The Way Of The Cutlass?
Anti-'89 Operative Unveiled!
Or, We Could Kill All The Pirates
The Starke Truth, or, Life At Blanding
The "Corps" Of Guides
Inchon: "We Shall Land And I Shall Crush Them"
11 Sep 2008: A Call To Arms
11 Sep 2008: Never Forget
More On Anbar... Guess Who Calls It A "Victory"?
News From Afghanistan
Anbar Turned Over To Iraqis
The Arctic
Taliban Humor
Dug In
Yes to Georgia, No to Russia
Marine Corps Col & LtCol Command Slates
Pressing Up The Hills of Culpeper, With Noble Emulation
Victory, Out of Providence
General Nathanael Greene
O Quantico!
Suck It Up, Pretty Boy
Backyard Follies
Straight Shooter: Great Advice in the WaPo
What Don't They Understand??
Paramilitary Terrorism
For Liberty!
Combat Hunter
Wednesday Gun Lust
Gun-Day Sunday: AK On Deck
Keeping Watch
JUSTICE, CONTINUED
The Reason Why Good People Should Carry
H.F.D.
Lost British Ship Found in Lake Ontario
BZs to USAIRWAYS
Justice
Remembering
Traditions Handed Down, And Up
Dude, Where's My Pistol?
Outside The Wire: Punk-Slapping the Left
Old Corps Meets New Corps
JCAS Symposium
VMI In Command: LtCol Scott Leonard, USMC, VMI '89
Death In The VMI Family: 1stSgt Luke Mercardante, USMC
"WILLFUL BLINDNESS"
Gunday Sunday: Charlton Heston
WaPo Online Chat re "Bad Voodoo"
Fooled Again
I Was Wondering When This Was Going To Happen
Gun-Day Monday: Springfield Armory
Bad Voodoo's War
Marine Corps Humor
Battling The Sadrists In Iraq
DC Air Guardsman Steps Up
The Easy Way and The Hard Way
Quantico Rugby
Happy Easter!
Penetrating Al Qaeda
Yep.
24 MEU SOC In AFGHANISTAN
VMI Lends A Hand
This Explains A Lot
Recommended Reading: You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
New Gun for SOCOM
89! 89! 89! Or How Brother Rat Jones Conquered Death Valley
Gun-Day Sunday: MagPul's Latest
This War, 15 Years On
VMI Video Of The Day
Chronic Warrior Syndrome
The Greatest American Presidents
Presidents' Day Op-For Reader Challenge
A Lovely Development In Syria
Gun-Day Monday: The M1014
Aid And Comfort
"Preferably Within An Hour"
Three Huzzahs for "Six Frigates"!
Top Canadian General Speaks on Afghanistan
Sunday Fun-Day, Whitegrass-Style
Miss Scarlett Visits The Boys Overseas
A Modicum of Justice
More Good Marine Recruiting Ads
Marine Corps Reserve Recruiting Pitch
America's Marines
Might as Well Jump
George MacDonald Fraser, R.I.P.
And Reveille for 2008
Taps For 2007
The Bhutto Assassination
Merry Christmas!
F-35B Lightning-II Reports For Duty
Canadians Wield A "Sharp Sword"
Old Europe's Self-Emasculation Continues
Front Sight, Press!
Gunday Sunday: The Steyr Scout Rifle And The City By The Bay
Enter General Jones
Meanwhile, Back In Haditha...
Thanksgiving AAR
Happy Thanksgiving To All
Tarawa
Action In The Swat Valley
The 40-Year Old Recruit
Gunday Sunday: A Gratifying Spectacle
VFRMarine Joins The Fray
National Ammunition Day: Do Your Part
Snow at Whitegrass, Winter's On The Way
New Mil-Spouse Blogger: Thaidylwave
Small Wars Journal on WaPo Live
Founders Day, Veterans Day
Happy Birthday, Marines!
Reasons 136-200 To Love The Corps
Reasons 91-135 To Embrace The Corps
A Couple of Reports from Afghanistan
Reasons 46-90 To Love The Corps
Entries 1- 45 of 232 Reasons to Love The Corps
Into The Wild Blue Yonder
Nevermore!
What's A Guy To Do?
The Marathon
Grenada (Heard From Today!)
Two Hundred Forty-One
"He Didn't Have Any Quit In Him"
Public Opinion re Afghanistan
"Her Sides Are Made of Iron!"
Update from ISAF HQ
Marines to Afghanistan?
True Warriors at the Army Ten Miler
Army Ten-Miler & AUSA
Miller Harpoons Lynne Stewart
Video Of The Day: Achmed The Dead Terrorist
Toilet Humor
Update On Houssein Zorkot
On The National Mall
And Another Thing!
11 September: Past, Present, Future
VMI Marines Clean Up The Command Slate
"Labor" Day On The Gunline
Tactical Tailor's MALICE pack
Airborne Heroes, Fort Benning Place-Names
4... 3... 2... 1...
Air-Borne!!!
The Week in Review
Beer & Artillery
Agent 91 Reports from Kabul
Leadership Discussion: Bright Lights and Dim Bulbs
Requiem For The Military Club System
Editing Out The Last Scene
22 MEU Sails For Points East, VMI In The Lead
Canadian Combat Art, Part 2
VMI Grad Takes Command at Camp Lejeune
Canadian Combat Art
A New Citizen!
"Santiago! And At Them!"
"A Definite Sign Of Progress"
Their War, Our War
A Post About Nothing
"Op-For, This Is Agent 91-- How Do You Read This Station, Over?"
"A Tactic To Erode Public Support"
Monday Evening Mullings
Fire & Ice On Exhibit
The AK-47 Turns 60
LIBERTY!
Two Incidents: Condition Yellow vs Condition White
More Attacks In The UK-- "See You In Ramadan?"
Time To Buy Some Labatt
DING-DING, DING-DING... '89 ARRIVING!
Mike Sears Reports from Anbar
Op-For North?
Every Little Bit Helps
And, Now There's This...
And Then There's This...
Fire & Ice Lives Again
Happy Birthday Hoo-Ahs!
And Semper Fi To You Too, Eh
CWO4 Mike Sears is Getting Cranked Up
Summer "Escape" Reading
Gun-Day Sunday: Defensive Handgun Skills
The Sunset Parade
Gun-Day Monday: The Enfield & The Mauser
Art Imitates Life...
Two New Milblogs To Watch
Major Zembiec's Funeral
New Market Day 2007: Our Best Men
NIX THE FORT DIX SIX
Our Man John...
Jill Carroll's Kidnapper Dead?
It's Flashman Day, Damn Your Eyes!
Gun-Day Sunday: Europe's Porcupine
"To The Shores of Trip-O-Leeee"
Gun-Day Monday: Of Mils and MOAs
"What is happening over here"
The Battle to Recapture South Georgia
Small Kindnesses, Great Appreciation
Happy Easter To All
Falklands War; Recommended Reading
The Falklands War
"Walked Out Carrying Our Shield, Not On It."
The .45 Turns 96
Gun Day Monday: Shoot More, It's Your Patriotic Duty
The Right American Idols
The Reserves: Their Present and Their Future
Gun Day Sunday: A Proficiency Test for a Well Regulated Militia
Marines Spring A Counter-Ambush
"Some Things You Never Forget"
Op-For John On Townhall.com
Planning for Victory, Legislating for Defeat
Iranian Official Alive and In U.S. Hands?
Tank Porn for Tread Heads
Recommended Reading: The Story of the Arab Legion
A Moment To Relax...
Marine Field Historian: A Single Digit Midget
Gun Day Sunday: We, The Militia
Mookie On A Spit
Be Prepared
19 FEB...
Washington The Great
Air Force NCO "Stripped" of Rank
Guns, The Citizen, and the Citizen-Soldier
"Long Before the United States Sent Troops to Iraq"
Mutual Blog Support: Marine Field Historian
When You Set Out to Take Vienna...
Waste Products: Why Hippies Aren't Just Harmless Pranksters
Another Bullet, Dodged
We scoff at honor and are shocked to find traitors among us
"Progress is occurring amidst the violence"
In It To Win It? I Wish!
Range Time is Good Time
Lee, Jackson, and the Battle of Cowpens: A Great Week in Military History
Gen McCaffrey on the Hill Today
Back From The 'Raq
What Was All That Nonsense About Running And Hiding?
Iran's New Year's Resolutions
Happy New Year
Delayed Justice in Somalia? Or Just Overdue Payback?
Sen Lieberman on Iraq: Let's Fight to Win
Complicating The Simple
Prince Harry Headed Somewheres East O' Suez?
Joy To The World
Iraqi Units Continue to Step Up
THIS JUST IN: "MILBLOGGERS" HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY
WWII Moonbattery
Russia Resurgent?
Iraq Study Group Report
Big War, Small World
Happy St Barbara's Day
Recommended Reading: Fire In The Night
A Peasant's Weapon, A Silly Article
Giving Thanks
"Should I Stay Or Should I Go?"
Happy Birthday, VMI!
More Marine Corps History
Happy Birthday, Marines
Well, There You Have it
Sketchpad Warrior
Headed for Iraq
Welcome Home, Marines, and Good Work!
Early Snow in West Virginia
Love and War
A What-If on the Future of America
"A Burning Sense of Patriotism"
Grenada & Beirut
Monday A.M. Prep Fires, 23 Oct 06
Put This Date on Your Calendar: 13 Nov 2006
19 Oct 1781: Victory at Yorktown
"What do you do with the people who are there?"
Happy Birthday, Navy!
Japan Reaches Down, Grabs Honorable Nuts
Canada to NATO: Get with the Program
"Enough of the Politics"
7 October: A Great Day in American Military History
"When you go into bad neighborhoods, you'll have more attacks."
Putting Muscle into NGO Operations: Time to Raise Private Armies?
Monday P.M. Prep Fires
Weekend Humor
Required Reading on Islamic Expansionism
Thru-Hiking PJs now deep inside Virginia
Yorktown: 28 Sept 1781
Iraq: Helping or Hurting?
LtCol Jeff Cooper, R.I.P.
Monday A.M. Prep Fires, 25 Sep 06
Marine Historian on Deck: LtCol Kurt Wheeler
Air Force PJs Hike the A.T.
Hezbollah Rallies In Southern Lebanon
Headline: Convert to Islam Free to Live Life, Head Remains Affixed to Shoulders
Rangel Punk-Slaps Chavez
NATO Punk-Slaps Taliban
19 Sept 1777: The Battle of Freeman's Farm
Wounded Warriors
The RCR and the Princess Pats
Monday A.M. Prep Fires, 18 Sept 06
Back From Leave
September 11th… 1565
Lebanon After The Fight: What Next?
NATO Takes the Fight to the Taliban
Lightning From The Sky: ANGLICO Blogger In Iraq
Conflicted on Khatami
Picture of the Day: Virtual Wetting-Down
