A vote for Cuomo is a vote for free education. Via Campus Reform: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is under fire for obtaining the names of students who received the state’s Excelsior Scholarship and asking them to appear in a political ad. According to The New York Post, Cuomo’s campaign contacted students who received the […]

She calculated the landing and return trajectories of the Apollo 11 mission by hand. BY HAND. No computers, no calculators. BY HAND. On paper. Try that common core. TweetShare1K1K Shares

You ever apply for a drivers license? A replacement social security card? Heh, it’s not easy. Via FreeBeacon: The Trump administration announced on Thursday it would be eliminating an obscure rule requiring federal agencies to provide updates on how they will prepare for a bug that infected computers in 2000. In addition to eliminating the […]

Keep them in your prayers. U.S. Army Sgt. Andrew McCarthy crosses a footbridge over a canal during a patrol in the Khogyani district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, March 29, 2013. McCarthy, an intelligence support team leader, is assigned to the 101st Airborne Division’s Company B, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. […]

Keep them in your prayers. Note: All pictures taken on March 25th except the bottom two (March 7 and March 23). A Stryker armored vehicle manned by U.S. Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, provides security as Afghan Border Police (ABP) break ground on a new checkpoint in the district of Spin Boldak, Kandahar […]

Note to the North Koreans, this is what camo is supposed to look like. KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers assigned to Red Platoon, Troop B ”Beast Troop” , 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team “Rakkasans,” 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) conduct a dismounted patrol to disrupt possible insurgent activity in the Musa […]

Keep them in your prayers. A soldier with 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force 4-2 (4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division), kneels behind a wall with his Afghan National Army counterpart during a combined foot patrol, Jan.29 in Panjwa’i District, Afghanistan. The soldier, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., is currently serving […]

Some amazing pictures today. Note: All pics taken over last three days. A U.S. soldier provides security as local Afghan men pray before being finger-printed and photographed outside Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-Jan-Kariz, a near-by village) in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province January 27, 2013. Members of Security Force Advisor Team 10 provide sniper coverage […]

God bless them. Soldiers with the U.S. Army’s Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment patrol near Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-Jan-Kariz, a near-by village) in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, January 25, 2013. Soldiers with the U.S. Army’s Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment patrol near Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-Jan-Kariz, […]

God bless them. Note: All pics taken over last week. U.S. Army Spc. Kaleb Propst, a security force team member for Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, provides security overwatch at a key leader engagement at a Bala Boluk district building, Jan. 2.  PRT Farah’s mission is to train, advise, and assist Afghan government leaders at […]

America’s finest making us proud. Note: All pics taken between Nov 30 – Dec 16. U.S. Army Pfc. Jacob Adams, left, and Spc. Artem Boyev, both infantrymen assigned to Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, provide overwatch security as fellow Soldiers search for signs of insurgent activity […]

God bless them. Note: All pics taken yesterday (12/9). A coalition force member maintains security during a presence patrol in Farah province, Afghanistan, Dec. 9, 2012. Coalition forces were conducting a patrol to assess the Afghan Local Police in the village. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau/Released) A coalition force member maintains security […]

U.S. special forces on patrol in Afghanistan. Note: All pics taken last Friday. Afghan National Police and coalition force members conduct a security patrol in order to deny enemy freedom of movement in Farah province, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2012. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau/Released) A coalition force member maintains security during an […]

Some amazing pictures, all taken two days ago. US Army soldiers attached to the 2nd platoon, C-Coy. 1-23 Infantry based at Zangabad foward operating base in Panjwai district deploy Anti Personell Obstacle Breaching System — abbreviated as A-POBS,  (which are charges fired by rocket and trigger safe detonation of IED’s used to make roadside bombs) […]

Note: Soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 91st Cav. on patrol, all pics taken last Sunday. TweetShare0 Shares

God bless them. U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Mykel Luera, team leader with 3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, loads a 40mm grenade into his M203 grenade launcher before a patrol in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan Sept. 3, 2012. Marines conducted the patrol to disrupt the flow […]

Keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Sergeant Walls Truman from the 3rd Platoon, Delta Coy, 1-64 Armoured Batallion of the US Army operating under NATO keeps vigil during a night-time operating post at Devils hill on September 6, 2012 near the Kandahar Air Field. (AFP PHOTO/TONY KARUMBA) Afghan villager who had defied orders to […]

May God bless and protect them. Note: All pics taken between July 17th – August 14th. A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tank finishes refueling at Combat Outpost Shir Ghazi, Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 27. The M1A1 Abrams is the main battle tank in use by the U.S. Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by […]

How can you not beam with pride at the sight of America’s finest in action? Sgt. Cody Outcalt shows Spc. Ronald Heater, both Soldiers of 2nd Platoon, Apache Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, where he spotted possible enemy troops moving in the distance while on a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, July 30, 2012. […]

Note: In case you were wondering why there hasn’t been any PFTF posts it’s because there has been a shortage of new pics, this is the first batch of recent pictures I’ve come across in weeks. Cpl. Chan Lathung, a native of Oakland, Calif., and a crew chief with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362, 3rd […]