Exciting Stuff Coming

There are some really cool things in store for this summer. We have outs to cook, homes to build, people to see, things to do and cats to kill. ("Sometimes a Great Notion") Don't call PETA or the Humane Society. Its just an expression. Go read the book.

Cooking With the Troops needs a logo and we'd like for you to help design it.

There is an artwork contest in the planning stages and I have it on excellent authority that one of the judges will be Chris Muir and one of the prizes has something to do with him.

LW and I, along with some folks whose identities cannot be revealed at this particular time, but trust me, you'll recognize them, are very busy taking our cookout program to the next level and filing the paperwork to make it a 501c3 organization. Our goal is to hold cookouts at every major military medical center in the country. We'll do the whole major announcement/press release and name names when the designation is official.

In conjunction with Soldiers Angels, we will also make another trip or two to Landstuhl, but I won't be flying across 3,000 miles of open water. Sorry, I have my limitations. Yeah, I'm chicken. So what?

There is a new blogger in the wings. A young Warrior has just returned from Camp Victory and is setting up residence in NoVA. He's going back to school and he has a lot on his mind and wants to share it with us. I see a Senator in the making. I definitely see a new voice on the conservative front.

I have a new laptop. Wooohoooo!!! I've already burned 3 DVDs and I'm experimenting with livestream. I would have loved to livestream the Wartime Museum press conference on Tuesday. Ya'll know I had the exclusive for the blogside of that announcement, right? Blew my mind when they asked me to do it.

The video from the Milblog Awards should be up shortly. I've been checking YouServed's Livestream site for updates. As soon as its posted, I'll link it here and post it over at FreeRepublic.com. I couldn't do YankeeMom justice with any sort of remarks, so I just did my dumb country boy schtick and said Thank You for YankeeMom.

SEAL 3 Update

This should provide interesting subject matter on Andrea's blogtalk show with Crush tonight.

Navy SEALs' trials moved to Iraq

NORFOLK, Va. - Two of the three Navy SEALs accused in the mistreatment of an Iraqi detainee will have their military trials take place in Iraq, a military judge ruled Monday.

Both Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas and Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan E. Keefe appeared in military court at Naval Station Norfolk in separate hearings. In each case, the presiding judge decided to move the sailor's trial to Camp Victory in Iraq. That decision was made so that the victim could give direct testimony instead of a deposition, enabling Huertas and Keefe to face their accuser.

The charges against the three SEALs involve Ahmed Hashim Abed, who has been linked to the 2004 deaths of four Blackwater contractors who were mutilated before their bodies were hung from a bridge.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe is accused of striking the detainee in the midsection, dereliction of duty for failing to safeguard the detainee, and lying to investigators. He deferred entering a plea until his Jan. 19 trial.

Huertas of Blue Island, Ill., faces charges of dereliction of duty, lying to investigators and impeding an investigation.

Keefe, of Yorktown, faces charges of dereliction of duty and making a false official statement. Huertas and Keefe have pleaded not guilty. Their trials are planned for April.

The SEALs have received an outpouring of public support, including the backing of several members of Congress.

From A Frontline Freeper

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/07/colbert.iraq/index.html

The first show is in the can.

(I don't usually watch Steve Colbert, but I'll make an exception in this case)

Greetings from Camp Victory, Iraq!

Good afternoon, I mean good morning for all of you back in the states! I wanted to make you all aware that Steven Colbert of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central is filming his Mon, Tue, Wed and Thursday shows here at the al-Faw palace at Camp Victory where I work. Please tune in to watch the show on those days and keep an eye out for me. Please watch his show and help boost his ratings. Colbert is a strong supporter of the troops and raises thousands of dollars for our troops and their families and he has decided to come over here in the heat and danger to put on a big show for us. He is also the first person to broadcast a show from the war. Judging by the set they have set up, it looks to be an amazing show filled with lots of inside jokes pertaining to they way things are over here and what life is like. I hope you all can tune in and enjoy a great show for the troops! And keep an eye out for an obnoxious soldier waving and going crazy....that will be me haha.

I miss you all and hope that you are all doing well! Keep up the good fight!

Pro Deus quod Terra