Twenty-three years of Active and Reserve service in the US Army in SF (18B), Infantry and SOF Signal jobs with operational deployments to Bosnia and Africa. His avocations are current events, aviation, history, and conservative politics. He is now a curmudgeonly computer geek in Washington, DC, picking the taxpayers pocket. Tantor is a former USAF navigator/weapon system officer (WSO) in F-4E Phantoms who served in the US, Asia, and Europe. Interests include military issues and policy and veteran's affairs.Ĭhris Carter is a former USAF firefighter and now civilian firefighter who covers military history, national security, and baseball. Consider my 3 years with the 82nd as the most fun I ever had with my clothes on. McQ has 28 years active and reserve service. He recently spent time in Afghanistan working with, training and fighting alongside Afghan Soldiers and is now focused on putting his 4 year Political Science degree to work by writing about foreign policy, military security policy and politics. He has served as a Military Police Team Leader and Protective Services Team Leader and he has served on assignments with the US State Department, US Air Force Security Police, US Army Criminal Investigation Division, and the US Drug Enforcement Administration. He has over 19 years of experience in both the Maritime and Land Warfare including deployments to Southwest Asia, Thailand, the South Pacific, South America and Egypt. In a previous life, he served in the US Navy. Wolf.ĭeebow is a Staff Sergeant and a Military Police Squad Leader in the Army National Guard. Wolf after the Harvey Kietel character in Pulp Fiction, when "challenges" arose, they called on Mr. He is currently working on a book on media and the Iraq war. He recently served 22 straight months in Kuwait and Iraq, in Intel, PA, and senior staff of MNF-I. Signal Corp is his basic branch, and Public Affairs is his functional area. He’s Airborne with 5 years as an NCO, before becoming an officer. Wolf has over 26 years in the Army, Army NG, and USAR. Readers be warned: any comments of orĪbout the F-14 Tomcat will be reverential and spoken in low, hushed tones. He blogs over at on a veritableĬornucopia of various and sundry items and will bring a tactical navalĪviator's perspective to Blackfive. Grim - an Old Norse name that means 'one who wears a mask' - blogs on issues of intelligence, information operations, and foreign relations.īill Paisley, otherwise known as Pinch, is a 22 year (ongoing) active and He is independent in politics and covers topics including journalism, military, weapons, preparedness, space, science, cooking, food and wine, product and book reviews, and even spirituality. Retired Special Operations Master Sergeant, Jim Hanson ("Uncle Jimbo") is now focused on writing about the military, politics, intelligence operations and foreign policy. Please enable JavaScript if you would like to comment on this blog.įormer Paratrooper and Army Officer, "Blackfive" started this blog upon learning of the valorous sacrifice of a friend that was not reported by the journalist whose life he saved. Such things are part of the cost of doing business in PMI's field - independent war reporting is not an easy, or a cheap, thing to do.Īs always, donations to PMI are fully tax deductible because of their not-for-profit status.Īs always, donations to PMI are fully tax deductible because of their not-for-profit status. Since this is a joint BlackFive/PMI project, we'd appreciate it if those of you who can would send them a little extra to help make up the difference. Those problems are now resolved, and the embed will be departing shortly.īecause the delay caused a last-minute schedule shift, PMI has endured some extra expenses in bringing the embed off. When we last spoke of the JSOTF-P embed, the outbreak of major military operations in Mindanao forced the Armed Forces of the Philippines to move their headquarters to Zamboanga, resulting in some delays in getting necessary approvals from the government of the Philippines. PMI still needs and deserves your support. It will replace The Fourth Rail as his go-to site, and will serve as PMI's main outlet. Bill Roggio's new website, The Long War Journal, is now up and operating.
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