Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following five individuals to serve in key roles
Published: Monday, June 21st, 2021 @ 8:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As a Dustoff Pilot, I would fly out for pick-ups in the field. Each day I would see the conditions that the ground troops had to endure and I would draw comparisons to my own situation.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2020 @ 8:07 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Today, it's my privilege to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to an Army Special Forces medic who now serves in the United States Secret Service. Please join me in welcoming Staff Sergeant Ronald Shurer.
Published: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018 @ 11:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Trump is committed to getting the almost 8,000 left behind from the Korean War home, and bringing closure to the families who have been waiting for more than 60 years.
Published: Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 @ 5:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The United States strongly condemns recent attacks on the people of Syria in Eastern Ghouta by Russia and the Assad regime
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2018 @ 3:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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How we found the wounded and how we got them back.
Published: Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 @ 8:56 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In an effort to prepare for a hurricane, the Eastern Healthcare Preparedness Coalition (EHPC), led by Vidant Medical Center (VMC) and the Southeastern Healthcare Preparedness Region (SHPR), are jointly coordinating the "120 to Landfall" exercise series
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2017 @ 1:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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An average day in the life of a grunt in the II Corp area Northeast of Saigon in 1968 consisted of Eagle Flights. We would form groups of six in two columns. The Huey helicopters would come in to pick us up. Usually three men from each side would upload on the Hueys.
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2016 @ 8:36 am
By: Bobby Tony
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As North Carolina is beginning to feel the impacts of Hurricane Matthew, Governor Pat McCrory warns North Carolinians to be prepared...
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ 8:30 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor McCrory Warns North Carolinians to be Prepared for Historic Flooding from Hurricane MatthewAs the latest storm track for Hurricane Matthew shifts further north and west, Governor Pat McCrory is warning North Carolinians to be prepared for historic flooding.
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ 8:04 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory today declared a State of Emergency for Bertie, Chowan and Hertford counties because of flooding from remnants of Tropical Storm Julia.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2016 @ 1:44 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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He Won't be With Us For Very Much Longer But He Looks So Healthy!
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 @ 9:51 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Be sure to read all the way through because the Big Thing is not the Big Thing you are thinking it is.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 4:55 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Death is waiting behind Hospital Emergency Room Doors.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 4:09 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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There was a time when we in the Good Ole USofA just drank our coffee & we paid no attention to our coffee.
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 @ 2:48 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In the early months of the year before the actual election, Dudley Do Right announces his candidacy for President of the United States.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 @ 2:24 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In honor of the Iowa Caucuses today I have gone back into my Archives to bring you a Presidential Campaign Silliness from the 2008 Election. Do you think we have progressed past Silly since then. I sure don't.
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2016 @ 11:55 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Congress can save a lot of time with this bit of foolishness.
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 3:06 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Baby On The Way. We Needed A BIG Car.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 7:27 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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This is really a War Story but you have to get to the bottom to see the War Part. Be patient, the Top Part is funny.
Published: Sunday, January 17th, 2016 @ 8:39 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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My Blog Postings stay valid even when the person I write them to pays no attention to my very logical requests. I wrote this one to the newly elected President of the Good Ole USofA right after he was elected in 2008. He has paid me no never mind.
Published: Sunday, January 17th, 2016 @ 3:54 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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I don't want to imply that the packaging around products we buy today is too hard to get into but what I really want to say is the packaging around products we buy today is too hard to get into.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2016 @ 2:45 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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On October 31, 2015 Bobby Tony submitted a unique comment about one of my Blog Postings.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:14 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In a local electronics store near where I live there is a piano that appears to play itself.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:50 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Why do we let Iowa & New Hampshire push us around?
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:25 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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I am formally offering each of you the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a Sure Fire Money Making New Venture aptly named...GrandmaNearYou.com
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 1:05 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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I realize that this is Foolishness of the first order but let your mind wander with me a moment.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:32 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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This posting refers back to two separate Foolishness...Or Is It? postings on the same subject. The first reiterates the Ignorance of Mankind & the second asks you to think about a Very Sobering Question
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:57 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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I guess I don't have a lot of problem with Early Voting in Presidential Elections.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:10 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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I like watching football but I think our announcers getting carried away with their Game Day Hysteria.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:55 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The smartest man who ever lived in the entire history of humankind on the face of the earth is about to publish an open email to every email address in the entire world.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:32 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The first of my two twos is going to strike many of you as shear unmitigated silly foolishness because it is so far out that you are going to shout at your computer, "He made that up! That could not have happened!"
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 @ 1:41 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The most talked about "removal" was Saint Christopher. It was not that he's no longer a saint, nor even that he no longer has a Feast Day (he still does, on 25th July).
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 3:31 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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