The Ramblings of a Crusty Old Sailor - Honoring Air Force Reserve's 71st Special Operations Squadron, 943rd Rescue Group, 5th Special Forces Group

On Sunday evening, March 12, 1989, while participating in a joint-service training exercise, four aircrew members from the Air Force Reserve's 71st Special Operations Squadron, now known as the 943rd Rescue Group, and 11 soldiers from the 5th Special Forces Group from Fort Bragg, N.C., died in the crash of a CH-3E Jolly Green Giant Helicopter, tail number 65-05692, call sign PONY 1-2. The crash happened in a desolate desert region 20 miles northwest of Tucson. Please help me honor them so that they are not forgotten.

The Ramblings of a Crusty Old Sailor - Honoring Army Sgt. Gabriel Guzman

Honoring Army Sgt. Gabriel Guzman who selflessly sacrificed his life thirteen years ago in Afghanistan for our great Country. Please help me honor him so that he is not forgotten.

Rev. Dan Polecheck - The Ramblings of a Crusty Old Sailor - A Marine stands guard while a brave young child dies.

A Marine stands guard while a brave young child dies

“Every now and then, in the middle of the constant barrage of garbage that’s just passing on to the US Public as news these days, we come across a story, a feat, an event that just makes us stop in our tracks. This was one for me.

Cody Green was a 12-year kid in Indiana who was diagnosed with leukemia at 22 months old. He loved the Marines, and his parents said he drew strength and courage from the Marine Corps as ... he bravely fought the battle into remission three times. Although he was cancer-free at the time, the chemotherapy had lowered his immune system and he developed a fungus infection that attacked his brain. Two weeks ago, as he struggled to fend off that infection in the hospital, the Marines wanted to show how much they respected his will to live, his strength, honor and courage. They presented Cody with Marine navigator wings and named him an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps.

For one Marine, that wasn't enough ... so that night, before Cody Green passed away, he took it upon himself to stand guard at Cody's hospital door all night long, 8 hours straight.

Nowhere on the face of this planet is there a country so blessed as we to have men and women such as this.