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Home Front: WoT
Must-see video: Infantry graduation speech
2006-08-23
This link was passed to me by several soldiers I know. One wrote:

I just listened to this speech given by a Basic Training Battalion Commander at Fort Benning. It is a fantastic speech and absolutely well-worth the time. It cannot fail to inspire. If I had a “world” distro list, I would have sent it to everyone on the planet.

Listen to this commander honor his new soldiers. And hear what he has to say about Iraq and other operations going on now.

Consider downloading the video and watching it on your pc locally so as to preserve bandwidth for other visitors to the site. It is zipped, but just click on it and it will play on most PCs.


Posted by:lotp

#13  my son and I watched it together - made me tear up. I'm proud of him and proud of America. Sounds corny, but I don't care
Posted by: Frank G   2006-08-23 23:31  

#12  A well-written speech, fairly delivered (he does need to work on his delivery, but he's probably a bit busy). I noticed it was the seated audience that responded to his sallies against the slanted media and biscotti&latte crowd. More lost market for the newspapers and television news, I fear, and gained audience for the warblogs.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-23 22:01  

#11  damn that was great
Posted by: sinse   2006-08-23 15:30  

#10  
What is the format of the video. It doesn't show in my version of Linux.


It plays fine with mplayer and the windows codecs.
Posted by: JFM   2006-08-23 13:26  

#9  I was able to view it from Blackfives site, try that
Makes me proud of all our soldiers
Posted by: Jan   2006-08-23 13:04  

#8  You think he's fat? Nah, just big-boned.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-23 11:14  

#7  Nice speech, if you're into speeches. Hope he skipped the O'Club buffee and took a reading of AR 600-9 instead.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-08-23 11:07  

#6  What a fine American.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-08-23 10:52  

#5  It's a zipped file with a .wmv format video inside 3dc.
Posted by: lotp   2006-08-23 10:23  

#4  Oops, Lt. Colonel White.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-08-23 10:20  

#3  Excellent speech. Particulary enjoyed the parts about 'Hollywood idiots', the 'latte and biscotti' and 'blame America first' crowd.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-23 10:19  

#2  Lt. Commander White has that hat thing going.
Good words with a grasp of the political truths.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-08-23 10:19  

#1  What is the format of the video. It doesn't show in my version of Linux.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-08-23 10:17  

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