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Taking Chance - HBO Movie To Air in February

Story Time w/ Uncle J- Spanky & the Shark
I attended a short-lived course run by the same Scuba Nazis who teach the Combat Diver qual at Key West called the Waterborne Infiltration Course. It was by any account an epic adventure and I have many tales to tell about it. One of my favorites is this one about a foolhardy attempt to spear a trophy shark.Oh, did I mention that Uncle J is back in effect?

Is the "Brothers" movie just a big, Ugly Military Stereotype, or is that jus the trailer?
Please take a moment to look at this synopsis for a movie called "Brothers," with Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey Maguire:When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home—with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family. BROTHERS tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirtysomething Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal), who are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is

Afghanistan? Tora Bora? Bush's fault forever
I grow bored of rehashing something we have been rehashing so long that the links to where I did an exhaustive analysis of it at Madison.com are no longer even active. Let me make this simple.1. We invade A-Stan with small number of Spec Ops guys and partner w. Northern Alliance and in amazingly successful operation kick Taliban and al Qaeda asses.2. Many of them die, some run to Paktia province, some (incl. bin Laden) run toward Pakistan and stop in highly-fortified Tora Bora.3. We do the math and since Tora Bora is way the hell up high in the mountains figger out we would have a wicked time resupplying any troops we managed to get up there w/ our limited helicopter

Tom Friedman on the Terrorist "Narrative"
An unusually common sense piece from Ton Friedman in the NY Times. He takes up a question that many of us would consider common sensical but which most of his compatriots in the media have been willfully ignoring, the terrorist motivation of Nidal Hassan. Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support for Muslim suicide bombers, about how he showed up at a public-health seminar with a PowerPoint presentation titled “

The return of UncleJimbo.com
Yes folks your prayers have been answered, I turned unclejimbo.com back on. I have way too much to complain about that has nothing to do with the military, so to quote myself:I need a place where the vicious beatdowns, vitriolic rants and profanity-laced tirades can sit right next to the thoughtful, engaging, informed commentary. You heard me right.So bookmark it and you will be rewarded with the most professional content available for free on the intertubes.