This is the time of year that I truly enjoy.  Speaking to young kids about my Army life and how I enjoy my job as a soldier. Plus at the end I make them participate in  Ole Sarge’s favorite pastime.  Doing Push Ups!  The first stop of the “Ole Sarge Elementary School Speaking Tour) The O.S.E - S.S.T. ( I just love Acronyms)  My first stop was at my oldest daughter’s school.  The kids got a kick out of Ole Sarge however there was a Drill Sergeant there who tried to steal my thunder. I ceded to him for the sheer fact he out ranked me. But Ole Sarge passed out a pocket US Constitutions to the kids, and told them “This is why we fight.  To protect and defend what is outlined in this booklet…….NOW DROP HEROS”   Although they look funny when trying, kids love doing push ups.

Special Thanks goes out to Mattaponi Elementary School for having Ole Sarge.

Next stop Malcolm X Elementary school in South East Washington DC.

HOOOAH!

New Name for BWI Selected

Decision Made to Honor First Black Supreme Court Justice

ATTENT HUT!

Ole Sarge is about to hop in his chameleon green Chevy Camaro and go on a little recruiting trip. The Idiot Brigade needs some new recruits. After reading Casey J. Lartigue’s blog about about my beloved Prince Georges county and the 18,485 cars that were stolen last year (Maryland Tops).  I had to make a short drive up the street and pay my County Executive Jack Johnson (not the fighter but does Ole Sarge wish he was one)  a visit.  Jack Johnson for whom I had the honor of not voting for proudly stated that there is 16 percent decrease in car thefts so far this year. Yet, he failed to mention that car jacking is up 40 percent.  No longer are the criminals steeling your vehicle while you sleep.  They are taking your car while you are in it.

As Casey states:

“County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) tried to explain that there is progress in them thar numbers! Why? The number of cars stolen so far this year is a reduction of 16% from the same period last year. So there's a bright side to the catastrophe. Plus, he forgot to add that his own car hasn't been stolen yet, so things haven't gotten that bad!”

The problem is Jack Johnson has always been weak on crime. As a Maryland State Attorney of Prince Georges county, Jack Johnson went after the Prince Georges County Police Department more than he did the criminals.  Prince Georges County is the richest African American County in the nation. Upper middle class African Americans live in million dollar homes. With more churches than you can imagine. Why is crime so bad?

A case of criminals coming to Prince Georges to roost.

Before my Camaro is stolen let me get in and speed down the road to sign up Jack Johnson for my Idiot Army. I need a JAG officer.

DISMISS!!!

Check out Ole Sarge’s last recruiting trip

Dummies in the DC Area

This monster is being held for savagely beating the 83 year old woman who is a vendor at the Foggy Bottom Metro station in Washington DC

According to court Documents:

The man’s name is James Dorsey. He has a rap sheet which dates back to 1984and has been charge 59 times. He record includes a felony conviction with a deadly weapon and various misdemeanors for second degree thefts and destruction of property.

As I said before the local media refused to put out a description of this man.  What was interesting was that he was named as a persons of interest and subsequently his picture was flashed on the television along with another individual. After looking the picture and viewing the security tape footage I had a feeling that the monster shown here was the one.

We are innocent until proven guilty, right? However DC police say they got their man.

Before Hanity and Colmes was popular. When it cametime for my liberal brother and I get together, a good debate ensues. As usual our mother is allays in between moderating.  Although me and brother can’t agree on much, we can agree on where  to take our mother out  and treat her to a special dinner.  

My mother was the closest thing to Claire Huxtable from the Cosby Show you can get. She rarely whipped us But the constant interrogations until she got the truth out of you was more than enough.  I told her a few years back “Mom I would rather had gotten my but whipped”  Why? Because, a good but whipping only last a less than a minute. Being interrogated last for hours.

One of the smartest and hard working women you can ever meet.  My brother and I would always agree about one thing

Our Mother  is the greatest

I saw the most sickening video tape the other while watching the news.  I saw a man brutally beat an elderly woman and rob her.

According to the Washington Post

D.C. police yesterday released a security videotape that shows an 83-year-old woman being punched, kicked and stomped during a daylight robbery this week in Northwest Washington. The woman, who was in stable condition yesterday with a broken cheek and nose, works as a street vendor, selling hats, T-shirts and umbrellas. Police declined to release her identity or say how much was taken in the robbery

If you a familiar with the DC Metro subway system, you would see this lady selling her merchandise right at the Foggy Bottom Metro stop (Blue and Orange Line.

DC Police released the tape in hopes someone would identify the terrorist who committed this god awful act. However no one including the TV media nor the Washington post released a description of the man. 

Looking at the tapes he looks like he is black. My guess is had this been a white man committing this crime you would gotten a description plus a composite sketch of an white male who looks like Bo Bice of American Idol.

This is sickening I hope they catch that terrorist soon and lock him up for long time.  But this is DC we are talking about……….. He probably would get community service

 UPDATE:

Man Held In Assault Of Elderly Woman

D.C. Vendor, 83, Robbed, Beaten

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 9, 2005; Page B01

June 1s t, 2004 marked my first month in Iraq; My previous year in the Middle East was spent Saudi Arabia and Kuwait With the time spent most of in Kuwait to include during “Operation Iraqi Freedom”. The only taste of Iraq I had was a one day trip to Um Qasar (pronounced Umm Kasar) which is right outside Kuwait border with Iraq. Fast forwarding to the present. I remember like it was yesterday leaving the DC area. I flew from Andrews Air force Base to the country of Qatar. Qatar is home to the main body of the US Central Command (CENTCOM). CENTCOM’s main focus is to protect, promote and preserve U.S interests in the central region. With an Area of Responsibility (AOR) larger than the continental U.S., stretching more than 3,100 miles east to west and 3,600 miles north-to-south. The AOR includes 27 culturally and economically diverse nations located throughout the Horn of Africa, South and Central Asia, and Northern Red Sea regions, as well as the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq. My stay in Qatar lasted two days. When it was time for me to board the plane to Baghdad from Qatar, I was fully dressed in my battle fatigues along with my combat gear looking astute (ATTENT HUT) as I boarded a military plane to Baghdad. My seat on the aircraft was adjacent to a few Military vehicles (2 Hummers) to include military equipment along with our luggage which was palletized and secured to the hull of the aircraft. There were no windows nor was I offered any peanuts. The seat that I was sitting in had the look and feel of an old folding lawn chair, and if I may add it very uncomfortable if. As I mentioned I was in full battle gear my M4 rifle positioned between my legs with my General Patton war face on. I wasn’t expecting to see combat but just in case I was fully prepared for the worst. Overall the plane ride was very uneventful. Once I stepped off the plane to take a look low and behold, there was Baghdad!  I stood ramrod facing toward the control tower. Like a camera pan scanning the horizon. I stood in complete silence. Inside my mind I was singing a song written by the Doors called “The End”. As part of the words to the song go “Can you picture what will be…So limitless and free….Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand…In a...desperate land” The melodic groove of that song has a hypnotic sound that puts me at ease. However this time I was overcome with uncertainty plus the fear of not coming home. I walked toward the pickup and threw my things in the back. Once I got inside the truck, I realized, I must move on. The path that I am traveling is down a dusty desolate road. The irony behind this was, I felt like Joseph Conrad’s character, Marlow, traveling down “The HEART of DARKNESS” is this the redux?

Aiden Delgado might be the next Ward Churchill in waiting.

Ole Sarge was reading my conservative sister Juliette Ochieng and Outside the Beltway blog.

The topic was about a Aiden Delgado who was stationed in Iraq as a mechanic at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison complex. Pvt. Delgado was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector (Army Regulation AR 600–43)

His story makes for good fodder for any lunatic leftist who is too scared to bring their ass to Iraq and find out what the hell is really going on for themselves.  

Ole Sarge does admit that the one thing in which I can be found guilty of was using the term “Haji” or “Hadji”   From my understanding was the word relates to a person who has made the “Haj” (5th Pillar of Islam)

The accusations of soldiers hitting soldiers in the head with coke bottles is complete nonsense. Besides the cans of  Mountain Dew I don’t recall ever seeing any coke bottles.

As stated on Outside the Beltway

“ I meant to note in the original piece that, of course, the mission in Iraq is different now and sensitivity to such things is vital. One doesn't wish to dehumanize the local civilian population of a country one is trying to pacify and democratize. The fact that our soldiers have to be diplomats one instant and warriors the next is a unique characteristic of stabilization operations. “

Look at the Great Seal of the United States of America. You will notice the eagle with an olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other

Bello vel Pace Paratus

No one loathes war more than the soldier. The Soldiers sole duty is to fight.  Peace is the end but the means to it must be met first.  In an ideal world, peace can be achieved just by talking about it.  However, reality dictates the opposite. In this country we have the talkers and the walkers.  the talkers talk about peace but the walkers take peace along with them and walk to what corner of the planet that needs it.  It is the soldier who does the marching. 

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This is the second part to of my anniversary series about my times in Baghdad last year. I posted this several months ago on my Herald site. This was the first time I had encountered some Iraqis

Tea time in Baghdad

    The Vietnamese Buddhist monk and philosopher, Thich Nhat Hanh (pronounced Tick-naught-han), writes about enjoying a good cup of tea. The other day in Iraq, I had gone to the Airport formerly know as Saddam International.  I was with a few Contractors who work for General Dynamics plus one other soldier with whom I work with.  As the rest my group left to do a little shopping, I chose to stay in the terminal area and smoke a cigarette (yes you can smoke inside) and to catch a look out of the window to see the Iraqi Airline planes that seem to be perfectly intact and ready to fly the clear blue skies.    Afterwards I sat down in the lounge chair to finish off my cigarette.  When suddenly 3 older Iraqi gentlemen sat in the seats adjacent to me.  At first I started to move but my instincts told me to remain seated. I noticed one of the Iraqi gentlemen was carrying a tray with 4 small glasses of hot tea.  Since there was an extra glass it was offered to me.   Of course I accepted because it would have been offensive in their culture if I chose the contrary.   The tea was good if you might have asked.   We finished our tea with a cigarette followed by an enjoyable conversation.  The only problem I had was the fact that I am left handed (the left hand is considered unclean in Islam) and in the past I had struggled mightily when using my right hand to hold a cup to drink tea or coffee from.  I managed and if I can say so I did a good job.  I left the airport feeling good about myself and rightly so.  The group that I was with jokingly said that I have a future as an Ambassador.  I would say I agree.   

     Finally, I could have easily fallen towards my comfort zone and used the left hand.  However life is all about sacrifice.  I am willing to change what I am comfortable with to make a difference and so are the hundred of thousand other men and women who the media ignores.  Therefore it truly pains me to read and hear about the bad things that the soldiers are doing.  The disdain for the media is what fuels me work harder and furthermore, ensure that the peace is won.  It was probably the spark I needed to flawlessly use my right hand to drink that tea.  

Life is truly like a good cup of tea.

Jeff Gordon led 139 laps, which allowed him to miss both multi-car accidents, on his way to victory in Sunday's Aaron's 499 at Talladega. It was his 72nd career win, leaving him four behind Dale Earnhardt for sixth place all-time.

Gordon drove the hell out of the 24 Chevy to give him his second restrictor plate race win this season, the first being the Daytona 500.  This was his third win of the season plus his 4th top ten finish. Jeff Gordon has moved up to 3rd in the drivers standing putting him 151 points behind his Hendrick Racing teammate points leader Jimmie Johnson (Lowes 48 car).  Defending Nextel champ Kurt Busch who is currently second in points finished the race in 7th place.

All in all this was a very exciting race.  I ma looking forward to next week race under the lights at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.