April 21: Sgt. Hasan Akbar, upper left, is led from the Staff Judge Advocate Building at Fort Bragg, N.C.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

USATODAY.COM

On Thursday at the Pentagon, Marvel Comics will unveil a custom comic book to be distributed free in May to U.S. forces in Iraq and around the world. Featuring the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and other Marvel heroes, the comic will have a mammoth print run of 1 million copies. The first 150,000 will go to soldiers in the Middle East.

I doubt that this book would be a collectors item.  This is solely based on the print run of this book.   I am an avid comic book collector and Marvel Comics is my favorite publisher.  When I was in Iraq, I spent some of my time on E-bay buying comics, since the Exchange didn’t have any.

"I am a Vietnam vet, and our people in uniform can never get treated well enough," says Marvel vice chairman Peter Cuneo. "Many are comic-book fans, and these are the heroes they grew up with. If you're in a foxhole, it's going to get passed around."

Just like the bootleg Spider-man 2 movie we bought from an Iraqi. Afterwards we had set up a projector, connected it to a laptop with speakers and beamed the filmed off the side of one of our trailers ….

I have to make some phone calls in order to get my copy!

President Bush nominated Marine Corp General Peter Pace to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  If confirmed, General Pace would be the first Marine Corp General to serve as the nations top military officer.  General Pace would replace General Richard Myers as chairmen.

"The first thing America needs to know about Pete Pace is that he is a Marine," Bush said. "To the American people, 'Marine' is shorthand for 'can do.' And I'm counting on Pete Pace to bring the Marine spirit to these new responsibilities."

Note to the Democrats, as the President says,  General Pace is a Marine that means in the past he might have yelled at a few people from time to time.  Hopefully his confirmation will not be the spectacle like John Bolton’s.

As a diehard Tarheel fan, this time of the year is what most Tarheel fans dread.  What Tarheels fans dread is the press conference to announce that I am going to NBA.  We have seen James Worthy, Michael Jordan, J.R Reid, Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace, Vince Carter, Antwan Jamison leave Chapel Hill to fulfill their dream of playing in the big league.  Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton, Sean may, and Marvin Williams have all recently announced their intentions. With that said you can add their name to the list of Tarheel basketball players leaving school early.  With seniors Jackie Manuel, Melvin Scott, and Jawad Williams graduating, North Carolina are losing 7 players from their 2004–05 Championship team. That is roughly 98 percent of their offense.

As Thad Williamson (InsideCarolina.Com) writes

The sky is still Carolina Blue … and no, it hasn’t fallen either, in the wake of Friday’s confirmation that Raymond Felton, Sean May, and Marvin Williams are joining Rashad McCants in taking their ample talents to the NBA.

Ole Sarge couldn’t agree more.  Mission accomplished for those players. The Tarheels will win it all again next year

For those of you who say players should stay in school.  Think about this, Ole Sarge went from high school straight to being a pro……………….

A professional Soldier HOOOAH!

I don’t think the Destiny’s Child was singing about that boogie, woogie, bugle boy from company B in their song Soldier.  With lyrics like

If his status ain't hood
I ain't checkin' for him
Betta be street if he lookin' at me
I need a soldier
That ain't scared to stand up for me
Known to carry big things
If you know what I mean
If his status ain't hood
I ain't checkin' for him
Betta be street if he looking at me
I need a soldier
That ain't scared to stand up for me
Gotta know to get dough
And he betta be street

Ole Sarge was wondering if they really need a thug instead of a Soldier.  Seems like it to me. Plus with all these soldiers in the hood, Ole Sarge was wondering.  Why are we having recruiting pitfalls in the Army.  Apparently Destiny Child isn’t.

Our country's greatest generation were bless to have the Andrews Sister serenade the Service men during WWII  with songs like ''Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,'' and ''Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree''  

In this day and age Destiny’s child would rather be hood than HOOOAH. 

This is coming from a true soldier…..

I enjoyed making the Ole Sarge South Park Charater (Minus the Churchill size Monte Cristo)…  Nevertheless Ole Sarge Says HOOOAH!

Thanks goes to my conservative sister and also my sister in service Juliette Ochieng (Baldilocks)

Create your own charater here

Raising Retirement Age Still an Option, Bush Says (washingtonpost.com)

Reuters
Monday, April 18, 2005; 2:51 PM

Ole Sarge ain’t working until he is 70.  The only thing Ole Sarge will be working on is his 5 and 7 iron golf swing while smoking a Monte Cristo.  My cut off age is 55 or maybe 57. 

The first place Nats (I know it is early but so what) recently finished a 3 game sweep over the Arizona Diamondbacks (Hey the Diamondbacks beat the Yanks in the World Series a few weeks back).  The excitement of Baseball back in DC after over 30 years, put a smile on Ole Sarge’s face.  Well up until I had to ride a crowded Metro on open night.  (Now Ole Sarge knows how a sardine feels)  Some people (liberal mind you) asked Ole Sarge did he attend the opening day game since my boy Bush was there.  Hell naw I didn't go.  You think Airport security is sucks.  Try going to an event where the Commander in Chief is attending. You better get there early and bring a lunch.. Hmmm never-mind the lunch because it just might get confiscated.

From the Washingtonpost.com

One year after winning 25 games, two years after Michael Jordan drove his black Mercedes out of MCI Center for the last time and about eight years after Chris Webber and Juwan Howard teased the populace with the promise of false hope, Washington is back in the playoffs. The Wizards have withstood a season filled with injuries and a late-season five-game slide to reach a plateau that the District hasn't seen since the team was known as the Bullets.

What more can I say about the Wizards. Those boys are ballin in DC.  Led by the most prolific scoring trio this side of the beltway. The Wizards will make a splash in the payoffs. Bold predictions anyone? 

 Update:

Still no naming rights for RFK Stadium. So “Ole Sarge Stadium @RFK”  is still on the table the problem is Ole Sarge doesn’t have the money. A meager soldier’s pay just wont cut it. Now if only I knew where Bin Laden was. That will be more than enough to cover the fee for the naming rights.

I received an an anonymous  comment in reference to the the Denzel post.

This is from Snopes.com(Denzel)

Claim:   Actor Denzel Washington made a large donation to the Fisher House Foundation after visiting Brooke Army Medical Center.

Status:   Multiple — see below.

• Denzel Washington visited Brooke Army Medical Center and expressed interest in donating to the Fisher House Foundation:   True.

• Denzel Washington whipped out his checkbook and "wrote a check out for the full amount (for a new Fisher House) right there on the spot":   False.

Example:   [Collected on the Internet, 2005]

A big HOOHAH from Ole Sarge to the individual who sent me this link.  Ole Sarge is greatful