Dalworthington Gardens Police Chief Bill Waybourn plans to keep tabs on the capital murder trial of Iraq veteran Eddie Routh, the man accused of gunning down the U.S. military’s most lethal sniper, Chris Kyle, and his friend at an Erath County gun range in February.

Routh sits in an Erath County jail cell in Stephenville awaiting trial, which will likely begin early next year and draw national media attention.

Waybourn and Kyle were friends.

“I first got to know him back in ’09,” Waybourn said. “And we stayed friends. He planned to enter the police academy and become a rookie police officer in this department.”

Those plans were shattered on Feb. 2 when, authorities say, Routh, 26, killed Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a gun range at Rough Creek Lodge, an upscale resort outside of Glen Rose…”

Forrás : http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/12/20/war-veteran-awaits-trial-in-killing-of-former-seal.html?ESRC=marine.nl

Columbus, Ohio — On Dec. 13, in front of friends, family and fellow Marines from Company L, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, former Marine Cpl. Tim Padgett was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” device at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Columbus, Ohio for actions during the Vietnam War.

According to his citation, then 22-year-old New Lexington, Ohio native Cpl. Padgett, who was a squad leader with Co. D, 1st Bn., 7th Marines, was leading his rifle squad on a patrol April 26, 1967, when they were ambushed by a superior enemy force…”

Forrás : http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/12/18/marine-veteran-receives-bronze-star-after-46-years.html?ESRC=marine.nl

Dressed in his best black suit and wearing a broad grin, Mike Nagel couldn’t hide his jitters.

Most everybody he loved was filing into the Navy Operational Support Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday, where his youngest boy would be awarded the Silver Star for heroism in Afghanistan. The proud papa couldn’t have been more excited.

“It’s just so overwhelming,” Nagel said shortly before the U.S. Marine color guard kicked off a moving, half-hour ceremony. “It’s almost like having a new baby.”…”

Forrás : http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/12/18/marine-receives-silver-star-for-rescuing-comrade.html?ESRC=marine.nl

We wish you a Merry Christmas to all our friends ….. Semper Fi

“The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are preparing to take final delivery of the first of several new sea-basing platforms designed to increase forward presence and allow the services to operate without needing a pier, port or land-staging area, service officials said.

The Navy plans to build four new sea-basing ships to include two Mobile Landing Platforms, or MLPs, and two modified MLPs configured into what the Navy calls Afloat Forward Staging Bases, or AFSBs.

With a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan ending and the U.S. rebalancing to the vast waterways of the Pacific, the Navy and Marine Corps are examining their expeditionary strategy.  Officials have said they want to increase forward presence, improve amphibious equipment and provide new platforms for sea-basing air and maritime assets…”

Forrás : http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/12/10/navy-marine-corps-build-new-sea-basing-ships/