Military Service

GENERAL BLAMES ‘NIGHT STALKER’ FOR MILITARY PURGE

10/06/2015 at 5:57 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Says mysterious adviser's influence on Obama now negatively affecting U.S. armed forces By F. MICHAEL MALOOF WASHINGTON – Who, or what, is behind the “purge” of top-level U.S. military officers during the Obama administration, with estimates of the number of senior officers fired during... read more

Reminds Us of Why Memorial Day Matters

05/25/2015 at 9:24 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By James Carafano, Daily Signal If any day is more than just a day, then Memorial Day is it. Sometimes remembering just one soldier reminds us why. His name was Lawrence Gordon. He grew-up on a hard-scrabble farm in Canada. After Pearl Harbor, he decided to join the American Army. The... read more

Notes from a Beachhead

05/24/2015 at 8:34 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By James Kushiner, Executive Director, The Fellowship of St. James Memorial Day would never be the same for me after 2010. I was in Rome, my first time ever out of the United States on an American holiday. The day before I had worshipped at the Church of San Teodoro, named for the fourth-century... read more

Patriot Graves

05/24/2015 at 8:34 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Gary Bauer, AmericanValues.org Monday marks Memorial Day, a national observance first known as Decoration Day. The first Memorial Day was observed on May 30, 1868. Flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Initially meant as a time... read more

Homosexual Sexual Assault Epidemic Grows in U.S. Military

05/22/2015 at 2:37 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Michael Avramovich On these pages over the past several years, I have written a number of articles regarding the increasing dangers facing conservative and Christian young people interested in joining our nation’s military. In these articles, I counselled young people against joining... read more

ARMY SUED OVER PLAN TO PUT WOMEN ON FRONT LINES OF COMBAT

04/06/2015 at 12:16 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Would face 'brutal and violent death, injury, horror and fear' By Bob Unruh, World Net Daily Two lawsuits have been filed seeking information about the U.S. military’s plan to use women to “close with and kill” the enemy, based on reports that suggest having women in “tip of the... read more

Air Force Announces ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Initiatives to Recruit More Women

03/07/2015 at 1:56 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
‘Gender-neutral standards for all jobs’ By Elizabeth Harrington, March 5, 2015 The United States Air Force announced new initiatives to recruit and retain more women and minorities, as Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James warned that those who choose to not understand “diversity and... read more

Japanese Attach on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

12/07/2014 at 11:28 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
At dawn we slept: Dec. 7, 1941 Published 12:00 am Sunday, December 7, 2014 By Bill Ward, Special to the Salisbury Post Few people are left who remember Pearl Harbor on this Sunday, December 7, 2014. But an event took place 73 years or 3,796 Sundays ago on December 7, 1941, that President... read more

Commander-in-Chief Spreads Christian Faith in Military

08/18/2014 at 2:27 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By William J. Federer After having the Declaration of Independence read to his troops, General George Washington issued the order, July 9, 1776: "Commanding officers of each regiment are directed to procure Chaplains...persons of good Characters and exemplary lives - To see that all inferior... read more

The Burial of an American Hero: on Behalf of a Grateful Nation

08/05/2014 at 12:55 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Joseph Jordan July 22 started as a bleak and overcast day, somehow fitting for the funeral of Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, the great Catholic Vietnam War hero, who endured many a bleak and dreary day during seven years and seven months of torture at the hands of the Communist North... read more

Saddam era WMDs captured in Iraq by ISIS

06/21/2014 at 8:09 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Dale T. Armstrong The British newspaper, The Telegraph reported this stunning little nugget yesterday, on June 19th: Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX. Wait……WHAT? I... read more

Chaplains sue Veterans Administration

11/14/2013 at 9:55 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

THINK WOMEN EXEMPT FROM DRAFT? THINK AGAIN

08/11/2013 at 2:41 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois