The following is an excerpt from a marijuana legalization article from CNN.com:
Reps. William Lacy Clay, D-Missouri, and Barbara Lee, D-California, said that in addition to targeting nonviolent offenders, U.S. marijuana laws unfairly target African-Americans.
How does a law unfairly affect any one ethnic group in America? Does the law say go search black people to see if [...]
Ronald A. Gray was convicted of crimes resulting from an 8 month crime spree dating back to the late 1980’s near Ft Bragg where he has stationed. Gray was convicted of 2 murders, an attempted murder, and 3 rapes on 1 civilian and two soldiers by a General Courts Martial. In the civilian courts he was [...]
Step Brothers with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly was the funniest movie that I have seen since Dodgeball.
Brennan Huff (Ferrell) is a momma’s boy that still lives at home with his mom although he is 39 years old. Dale Doback (Reilly) is forty years old and has been living off daddy since he dropped out of [...]
This will be the first of weekly posts in which I pass the word. I will mention articles that I got something out of and also articles that I think Marines will be interested in.
First Harvard Marines from Semper Finance wrote an article on estate++. Looks like a really useful tool to those of us headed to [...]
After yesterday’s post and rereading of the Marine Corps Times article as well as other sites about the Post 9/11 GI Bill I started to wonder if 90 grand (the limit for re-enlistment bonuses) for FY-09 Marines will be enough. It is right there in black in white on the front of The Marine Times for [...]
As I wrote in an earlier piece I gave a brief overview of the post 9/11 GI bill that was recently passed this will be a more comprehensive explaination of the increased benefits and when they go into effect.
Who is covered?
Active duty enlisted and officer who have served at least 90 days since Sept 11 [...]
1/2 of a rifle platoon
Since the beginning of Oct we have lost 19 Marines to motorcycles. Can you believe it we have lost almost 1/2 of a rifle platoon not to bullets in Iraq or Afghanistan but to bumpers and asphalt in San Diego and Jacksonville.
How?
Many Marines are coming home from Iraq with money burning a hole in their pocket and [...]
Use it or loose it
Every year hundreds if not thousands of Marines and service members loose accrues leave due to the fact that you can only carry over a leave balance of 60 days from one fiscal year to the next. So any days of leave over 60 that you had on Sept 30 are [...]
My question is this? When did it become acceptable to sign a contract and then not honor the terms of said contract? I am talking about sports and in particular about football. Seems that every year you hear about a player that is going to sit out of camp or even not play the season [...]
There are many great things to do and see in Southern California that cost the average person quite a chunk of change. Military members can get discounts on all kinds of things in Southern California.
Sea World- Military Members can receive up to 4 free tickets for themselves and their dependants (discounted tickets after your four [...]
