New Rally Date

First, I want to thank everyone who encouraged and supported me while I fought to put the originial event together. This event was always about the milbloggers and the troops. I would not have considered it had I not received the full backing and endorsement from some heavy hitters in the milblog community.

That being said, Gathering of Eagles has decided that November 7 in Washington DC is a good time to hold this event.

There are two things that need to be said:

1. I had nothing to do with that decision. I was not consulted or asked, and only found out when I received a phone call from a friend who is an ACTIVE Chapter leader.

2. I have resigned as Special Events Coordinator for Gathering of Eagles.

Apparently lack of funding is no excuse for my failure to make the June event a huge success.

Great Americans

Great Americans is perhaps one of the most promising tradtional values video websites to come along in a good while. This type of site has been desperately needed since 11 September 2001.

My brothers over at EaglesUp actually have a similar site, called protrooptube.com, but there seems to be a problem and Grey Wolf has other, more pressing tasks to attend to. Seriously.
I need him for the protroopevents website. He is the wizard. He is legend.

While LiveLeak and the now merged Ogrish were good sources for battle videos and videos of a rather gruesome nature, we needed an outlet for the good stuff.

(although I watched a video from a gunship at night of an incident in Iraq, that was hilarious. I will not describe it in detail, but I want you to think carport, convertible, two very atheletic consenting adults, (NOT military), who, to phrase it delicately, "danced like no one was watching".)
No less than 4 helicopters were involved in the surviellance, and the chatter between the pilots had me in hysterics.

Back to GA. Lets get rolling on getting videos uploaded of ordinary people doing extraordinary things for the extraordinary people who protect us and come to our aid when needed.

But give us some funny stuff too.

CJ has some good stuff up at A Soldiers Perspective.

Blackfive and Tankerbabe, and JP and Troy and CJ, and JD Johannes are doing some great stuff with video.

Show the world what you're doing. Tell the world about your heros. Get involved.

3rd Annual Milbloggie Awards Nominations Open

JP (the JP of the PBS documentary Bad VooDoo’s War and creator of milblogs) has announced the opening of the nominating process for the 3rd Annual Milbloggie Awards.

3rd Annual Milblog Awards Nominating Page

Go forth and nominate.
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