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Our Coast Guard has of neccessity been around for quite a long time and has evolved over its many years as a premier all purpose Naval force. The Coast is probably the mot versatile of all of our branches of the military. I read different accounts of incidents every day where they have performed a daring rescue or law enforcement action. These actions don’t even account for the many day to day routine operations that they conduct.

The Coast Guard was established on August 4th 1790 as the Revenue Marine Service. They were joined by the US Lifesaving Service in in 1915 to form the service known as the United States Coast Guard. This was after the addition of the Revenue Cutter Service. In 1939 the Lighthouse Service was added to the mix and the Steamboat Inspection Service joined in 1946. You can see how the Coast Guard came to have so many modern day functions. It was moved from the US Treasury Department to the Department of Transportation in 1967, and became a part of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003.

Our Coast Guard custom ring customers are facing daunting challenges in the years to become because of the world situation now. They have to adapt and overcome despite a severely limited budget and limited resources.

The precedent which eventually morphed into the holiday which we know as memorial day began on May 5th 1868. It began as a day of honoring the Civil War dead by placing flowers on their graves. It was began by the head of the Organization of Union Veterans. A national holiday to honor those who have given their lives in the service of this country is totally appropriate. If there is never another American killed in another military conflict anywhere on this earth we still can not give enough honor those who have given all.

Almost every serviceman or woman killed in the service of this country was a young adult with a full life ahead of them. They did not have the opportunity to live and die a quiet death at an old age. they missed many warm summers, special moments with loved ones, hot home cooked meals, and warm embraces in the arms of loved ones because they gave their lives for you and me.

Those who gave their lives all gave it in some foriegn country in the most jacked up conditions that you can imagine. They were hungry, tired, fearful, and dirty. They died in the worst physical and psychological circumstances that you could possibly imagine. Many of them died while suffering the most excruciating pain that you can imagine. The last image which their eyes saw was not their loved ones and family members but the horror and carnage of combat. We honor you our military ring customers both dead and alive and we want you to know it.

Our military ring customers who are serving in Afghanistan are gearing up for the fight for control of that territory which should occur around the first part of this summer. The battle should be a low intensity conflict which means that there will be just as much diplomacy as shooting going on.

Our troops will be in danger and there will be some casualties but resistance should be lower than the impression of war that we have in our minds. At the current time our military ring customers who are in country are working on gaing control of the areas around the city by cutting off the supply routes into and out of the city and by working to capture the hearts and minds of the Afghan prople with good relationships. In essence the battle has already started because of the activities of our custom military ring customers.

The battle should be over before Ramadan. This battle is symbolic in the sense that Kandahar is the hub and backbone of the Talibans operations in the area. So the feeling is that taking this area from them will will break their backs and hopefully make them lose heart in their committment to fight. The Afghan government is also offering many incentives to ex Taliban fighters to reassimilate them into society. Hopefully this combination of the offensive and the positive incentives will defuse the Taliban and bring peace to the region.

Sometimes when you have diarrhea of the mouth you should seek something to stop you up before you poop on your food.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad probably had one halfway friend in the world in the Russians but he has managed to tick them off. Even they are reluctant to turn him loose with nukes and it has shown by their lack of enthuasiam for his plan to exchange uranium. The problem is that the world doesn’t want him to have access to the high grade uranium that he wants to get. Since he has no intention of complying with those wishes this plan was his bogus attempt to cover.

He accused the Russians of siding with the US in a rash sort of way. The coarseness of his accusations did elicit a response rom the Russians who basically said that he has diarrhea of the mouth. If this man lacks such basic good judgement can you imagine him with nuclear weapons. It would only be a matter of time before he did something totally stupid. I think that all of you my military ring customers will agree that we need to do whatever is necessary to keep nuclear weapons out of this man’s hands.

This is my own personal thing today. This is my tribute to all of my military ring customers and to all of those serving in the armed forces of this great nation and every other country in the world.

Operation Enduring Hardship goes out to all of the young military wives whose husband had to be deployed to Iraq two weeks after they arrived at a new duty station. You don’t know anyone in the place or where anything is located. The kids are hungry, sick, angry, and crying because they haven’t adapted to their new environment. The car won’t crank and the military has messed up your husbands pay. To top it off you haven’t heard from your husband since he left and the lights were just turned off.

This operation speaks of the young private who just landed out in the middle of nowhere. You just had all night guard duty and you just found out that you will have to work all day. The temperature is around 140 degrees and a sand storm is raging. Your tent was just blown down and you lost your protective goggles. You have had I MRE a day all week long because hot food and mail has not made it out to your part of the boondocks.

The only uniform that you have now is missing pockets and the leg is ripped open. Your boots are worn out and supply doesn’t have any. You are hot, sweaty, thirsty, hungry, scared, tired, dusty, and lonely because you have not been able to talk to your loved ones since you have been here.

This post goes out to all of those military ring customers and others who have served, or are presently serving in operation enduring hardship. It would be good if the world were allowed to walk just a few steps in your shoes.http://www.militaryringexpress.com

The Russian government has come up with a plan to detain those pirates who are being captured off of the coast of Somalia. The UN has bitten off on it and it may help, but as long as piracy remains as profitable as it is there will never be a shortage of pirates to fill in and take the place of those who are captured.

The biggest problem is that piracy has been so profitable to a country where abject poverty is the norm. Any plan to detain pirates should also be a part of another plan to make piracy not profitable enough to pursue. I don’t know how the profit motive could actually be taken out of piracy but there may be a way.

The Kenyan government was detaining captured pirates but it ceased doing so because it caused problems in their justice system. Now the problem remains for the international community to solve. My first question is who should have to detain the captured criminals? No one wants to add malfactors to their population so what do you do?

Maybe a prison on the order of the one that the French used in Guyana would work. If there is a large unpopulated island somewhere that they could be sent to. I don’t know how well that that solution would tie into international protocol but it is a thought. If any of you military ring customers out there have any ideas please let me know.

From what I have read it seems that the Syrian government has supplied SCUD missiles to Hezbollah to use against Israel. Now no formal accusations have been made but the US State Department seems to be suspicious. If they are suspicious I am sure that they have good reason to be.

This is the very reason that I believe that someone will put nuclear weapons into the hands of terrorists one day. do you Desert Storm military ring customers remember how the Iraqi Air Force flew to Iran during that war? I personally believe that the Syrians helped Saddam Hussein hide whatever he needed to hide before he was invadad in 2003. You don’t have to comment me back on this but that is just what I believe.

The Syrians have been very good at playing both sides if the fence during this conflict. The State Department will not rule out any options in dealing with the Syrians if it turns out to be true that they have provided SCUDs to Hezbollah.

My answer to this is that any servicemenber should not openly criticize the decisions and policies of the Commander in Chief. I don’t see why there is any ambiguity about it. You do not openly criticize the orders or policies of your leadership. Now your chain of command is not perfect. They are human just like you and I and we all make mistakes. We have all made regrettable decisions.

The troop in question here is a Marine Sergeant who set up a facebook page criticizing President Obama’s health care plan. I am not advocating this plan in any way, but lets remember its not his alone.

Sergeant when you issue an order to your subordinates do you let them tell you how stupid it is? Do you allow members of your unit to openly criticize you? Remember you are saying that it is their right to do so by your actions. Has every decision that you have ever made been perfect?

I once had a marine friend who told me that the attitude of the Corps was this; “Even if we feel that our Commander has not made the best decision we will execute it so well that we will make it work.” What happened to that attitude? Has the Corps changed that much in recent years?

Our Secretary of Defense seems to believe in sanctions against Iran. When I say this I am saying that he believes that if we apply sanctions that they will certainly work. Mr Gates is a much smarter man than I am and he is privy to a lot of information that I am not aware of but I am skeptical. I certainly hope that he is right my military ring customers, because it seems inevitable that this will be the next step in our dealings with them.

Mr Gates feels that Iran’s nuclear programs and brash attitude has caused concern in many of the countries in the region to the point where they will honor the sanctions. Again my military ring customers, Mr Gates is privy to a lot of information that I don’t know about so I know that he has his reasons and I hope that he is right.

When you consider the attitude of the Iranians there may not be another option other than military force if the sanctions do not work. This is what the military mind of the military ring man has come up with. What do you think?

Two almost simultaneous suicide bombings in Pakistan killed a total of 48 people and wounded 95 others. This death toll may change as time goes on but this is the way that it stands now.

This was the second bombing in less than a week in Lahore Pakistan and I don’t know if al-Qaeda is desperate or just making a statement against the Pakistani government. The Pakistani’s have been criticized for supporting the US in its policies by other governments in the area and by al-Qaeda. They have also been pressured to do something about the terrorists who do their dirt in Afghanistan and cross the border back into Pakistan by the US.

They have had to crack down on al-Qaeda in that country because of al-Qaeda’s terrorist activities against their government.

Our custom military ring customers who are currently serving in Afghanistan need as much help as they can get in this war. I’m glad Pakistan is toeing the line and helping us out. Every little bit helps and every hour that our troops don’t have to look over their shoulders is a blessing.