Whatever you are doing on Friday, take a little time off and help support the family of one of our own who has made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us and our way of life. Please come to Ground Control and support the family of Lt. Col. Frank Bryant Jr. who died in Afghanistan last month. This weekend is Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a lot more than hot dogs, apple pie and baseball. There is no more fitting time to honor one of our true HERO's. If you can't stop by then send a check to Sean @ Ground Control: 14140 W Indian School Rd Suite B1, Goodyear, AZ 85338.

A former Fort Jackson officer and a Richland County Sheriff's Department undercover deputy were reunited during an award ceremony Friday - eight months after the Soldier saved the deputy's life - and discovered a special bond that put a "special" twist on their story.

The link below covers a video report from MyFoxNY.com on an organization that claims to be supporting the troops, but may be a scam.

WASHINGTON -- This year's State of the Union address has been parsed, analyzed, applauded (80 times), celebrated and derided. The rhetoric has been described as "visionary" and "myopic." The president's promises and pledges have been depicted as "important" and "hollow." None of that really matters in the near term. What's most important right now is how the Obama administration handles the increasingly intense cries for greater freedom sweeping from Tunisia to Yemen -- threatening every authoritarian Muslim regime in that region save one: Iran's.

On behalf of our nation’s veterans, Liberty Institute just filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the Mojave Desert War Memorial, and at the same time launched a petition to the President to save the Mount Soledad Memorial.

Fighting the Obama Administration to preserve our war memorials is going to be a tough battle. We need your help.

As you know, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in our favor earlier this year stating the Mojave Cross should stay after the ACLU launched a 10-year legal battle to tear it down.

Mr. Mischa Matulich of Classic Tattoos in Grass Valley, California (contact
info below) is gathering photos and the stories of Tattoos that were put on
Veterans who served during World War II and/or the Korean War. The idea is
to get a photo along with the story behind the decision to get that
particular tattoo (when and where etc).

Here is the contact info on Mischa for anyone interested in sharing their
tattoo and the story behind it.

Classic Tattoo
420 Colfax Avenue
Grass Valley, CA 95945
Tel: (530) 273-6499
Cell: (530) 401-7540

Anyone who's trying to pick a fight with the Marines over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" should have to answer this question, which Gen. James Amos turned on a hostile reporter yesterday: "Have you been out with the Marines in an intense firefight, you personally?" The President certainly hasn't. Nor has his Secretary of Defense. "I don't want to lose any Marines to the distraction," the Commandant warned yesterday. "I don't want to have any Marines that I'm visiting at Bethesda [ Naval Medical Center ] with no legs be the result of any type of distraction...

Since 9/11, Militec, Inc. has received thousands of emails from American troops requesting more than 500,000 bottles of all sizes of MILITEC-1 weapons lubricant to insure that weapons don't ge clogged with environmental debris and malfunction.

"Fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession," a phrase from the Ranger Creed, but one that Sgt. Jonathan K. Peney, 22, lived and died by as a Ranger combat medic.
"Sergeant Peney was a devoted and extraordinary Ranger medic," said Capt. Andrew Fisher, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment physician assistant. "He possessed all of the talents and maturity necessary to excel both personally and professional in any organization."