[jazusamo]

Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, Semper Fi

[jazusamo]

Ping!

[forgotten man]

I saw Sgt. Peralta’s grave at Fort Rosecrans cemetery on Point Loma in San Diego. If the ship is based in San Diego it will pass in front of his grave every time in enters or leaves San Diego Bay.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The USS Gabrielle Giffords shouldn’t even be in the same water.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

My Goodness!!!

They didn’t name it after Sen. Robert Byrd? or Pelosi, or a Kennedy? or Rahm Emanuel? or fat ass hogly Michelle? or Hitler? etc.?

I am truely disapointed…Totally

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

My Goodness!!!

They didn’t name it after Sen. Robert Byrd? or Pelosi, or a Kennedy? or Rahm Emanuel? or fat ass hogly Michelle? or Hitler? etc.?

I am truely disapointed…Totally

[I cannot think of a name]

“Peralta was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross after using his body to shield fellow Marines from an insurgent grenade”

Hmmm, many people have received the Medal of Honor for the same actions. I’ve noticed the Medal of Honor for these wars seems to have required a higher standard than previous wars.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Sorry for the double post.

I got carried away.

[Tennessee Nana]

This is great...

Honoring a real American hero...

[Tennessee Nana]

This is great...

Honoring a real American hero...

[crusadersoldier]

Excellent News!
Oliver North wrote an good article at the time about Sgt. Peralta.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=6062

[zerosix]

Who is Navy Sec. Raymond Mabus: some statements at the "Progressive Policy Institute" might give you an update on some of his thoughts:

".....Spearheaded by Ray Mabus, President Obama’s secretary of the Navy and the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the Navy and Marines are building a strategy for “out-greening” Al Qaeda, “out-greening” the Taliban and “out-greening” the world’s petro-dictators. Their efforts are based in part on a recent study from 2007 data that found that the U.S. military loses one person, killed or wounded, for every 24 fuel convoys it runs in Afghanistan. Today, there are hundreds and hundreds of these convoys needed to truck fuel — to run air-conditioners and power diesel generators — to remote bases all over Afghanistan.

Mabus’s argument is that if the U.S. Navy and Marines could replace those generators with renewable power and more energy efficient buildings, and run its ships on nuclear energy, biofuels and hybrid engines, and fly its jets with bio-fuels, then it could out-green the Taliban — the best way to avoid a roadside bomb is to not have vehicles on the roads — and out-green all the petro-dictators now telling the world what to do."