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    Some Thoughts on Suicide

    Editor’s Note: Memorial Day Weekend can be tough for many of us as we pay tribute and memorialize those who we have lost.  Over at Blackfive, Laughing Wolf has a very...

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    Douche of the Week: The Woman Who Evicted Her Father

      By Ghengis Ron “I laid awake at night trying to figure out what in the world I could have done to these people to make them so angry at me.”...

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    Things I Wish I Knew Before I Tried My Hand at College

      By Mad Medic Almost every enlisted Joe can’t wait to get out and go to that magical land called “college” where they can get a degree and make the big...

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    Big Army’s Latest FUBAR

      By Mad Medic It seems almost comical. Perhaps there were a bunch of generals sitting around trying to fluff their OER so they could get another star, maybe it was...

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    The Benghazi Debacle

      By Ghengis Ron Did the US do enough to protect its people during the attack on the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi? Greg Hicks, the Deputy Chief of Mission at...

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    A Failure of Management

      By RU Special Guest Mike Kiley The mainstream media is reporting how State Department and CIA career officials are lawyering up as they prepare to provide information to Congress about...

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    What Boston Taught Us

      By Mad Medic Any Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine that went on patrol in Iraq or Afghanistan found a majority of the events surrounding the bombing of the Boston Marathon...

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    Rules of Combat

      By Antonio Aguilar At the time that I’m sitting down writing this, the situation in Boston and Watertown hasn’t yet settled, and already I’m seeing a little bit of negative...

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    Hero of the Week: Carlos Arredondo

      By Sgt Awesome Often when one thinks about the word “hero” your first thought is usually of a Soldier or maybe a policeman or firefighter. Certainly paramedics and all other...

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    We Remember: USS Thresher (SSN-593)

      By RU Special Guest – ET1(SS) Princess On April 10th, 1963 – exactly 50 years ago – the USS Thresher (SSN-593) silently submerged beneath the ocean depths some 200 miles...

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    A Salute

      By RU Special Guest- Beth Kingston On a recent trip to NYC, my husband Don found himself walking down what turned out to be Wall Street and was stopped by...

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    Douche of the Week: Bill Maher

      By Jack Mandaville I not only love contributing to The Rhino Den, but I’m also an avid fan. The modern veteran community is as politically diverse—on certain issues—as the American...

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    Don’t Piss Off the Medic

      By RU Contributor Mad Medic   Medics are an odd bunch. We’re that strange mix of brains and Braun that is required to work on the Line but also to...

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    Priorities

      By RU Contributor Antonio Aguilar What the hell is up with the priorities in Washington these days? With sequestration happening, tuition assistance for the military, both Active Duty as well...

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    The Dumbass Chronicles: Hobbling Around a Track for Cancer

      By Ghengis Ron In 1999, back before I started looking like the love child of Margaret Cho and Roy “Big Country” Nelson, I was suckered into running for a good...

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    You Down With FRG? Yeah, You Know Me!

      By RU Contributor Six Long ago as a young, single, and innocent female in the Army (stop laughing), I found myself dating a fella who wasn’t in the service. My...

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