Don Croswhite's Army Blog

Foxs News - Oliver North's War Stories Update

2010-04-09T17:37:00.000-07:00

This is the official artwork for the episode of "Oliver North's War Stories" that we were a part of.

Here's a link to the video preview.

Voice Mails

2010-02-26T23:42:00.000-08:00

Here's a number of voice mails from over the years:

(some contain language)

Sgt Dodge

White

Paul

Sgt Atch.

Dennis

(Telling me the Jim died)

The "Future Combat Systems" of it's Time

2010-02-16T17:24:00.001-08:00

I love how all the brass are prepping and standing around looking important, and all the joes are playing cards and sleeping. Some things never change. This is exactly how new Mexico looks, minus the grainy part...

Oliver North's War Stories

2010-02-10T14:01:00.000-08:00

Apparently that footage that Fox News came and shot is for Oliver North's "War Stories" on FOX.

Here's the Link to an article on the Army's website.

Second AAM

2010-02-05T17:36:00.000-08:00

I received my second AAM at the EIB ceremony today, for helping during the testing phase.

Hartman Trying to Stay Warm

2010-02-03T08:47:00.001-08:00

Sgt Heid Sleeping w/ The Enemy

2010-02-03T08:06:00.001-08:00

Playing the Casualty

2010-02-02T06:38:00.000-08:00

Sitting Around

2010-02-01T08:53:00.001-08:00

Past the E5 Board

2010-01-28T18:57:00.001-08:00

Past the E5 Board

EIB Day 1 and 2

2010-01-23T09:19:00.001-08:00

Hospital for Concunsion

2010-01-23T09:19:00.000-08:00

Last Pic of Larsen

2010-01-16T20:05:00.001-08:00

Watching Woodard

2010-01-15T20:03:00.001-08:00

H1N1

2010-01-11T12:29:00.000-08:00

The Army gave me my swine flu shot today. Maybe now I'll be able to relate to liberals.

Final Bushmasters Artwork + Batt Coin

2010-01-08T12:44:00.000-08:00

This is the final version pending any advice or suggestions from Battalion:

Here's the flag version

Also the Battalion Spartan 5 coin was approved. It's funny, I left art school for the Army and now I'm doing artwork in the Army...

Bushmasters Artwork Update

2010-01-07T15:28:00.000-08:00

New Company Artwork

2010-01-06T18:33:00.000-08:00

We went from Alpha (Aries) to Bravo (Bushmasters.)

Work in progress

Jim Morton Update

2010-01-05T19:21:00.000-08:00

While in California with Asi I had a chance to visit with Ellen Morton. We had a great talk for about two hours. I told her that I was wanting to write a sort of journal, archive book about Jim and her. She was gracious enough to give me the necessary info to pull Jim's military records. I working on that now. If you have stories that Jim told you, or that you've heard others tell about Jim please e-mail me at DCroswhite-AT-Gmail-dot-com.

2010, Last Full

2010-01-05T19:15:00.000-08:00

2010 is my last full year in the Army. It's exciting to see what I can get done with the last chunk of time.

Alpha to Bravo

2010-01-05T19:10:00.001-08:00

Alpha Co. is now Bravo Co.

In California (Note Beard)

2010-01-03T13:54:00.001-08:00

Going To California

2009-12-28T14:36:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas from 5-1 2CAB (AETF)

2009-12-24T21:09:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas 2009

2009-12-24T10:57:00.001-08:00

John Wayne in "The Green Berets"

2009-12-21T22:39:00.000-08:00

Annalisa and I just watched John Wayne in "The Green Berets." Great flick.

Shirt from My Wife

2009-12-19T23:25:00.001-08:00

Pre Christmas Road March

2009-12-15T13:39:00.001-08:00

Aco went on a pre Christmas 12 miler.

View Larger Map

After "Point B" I have no idea where we went.

Proposed Battalion Coin

2009-12-11T17:32:00.000-08:00

WW2 Vet Lays Out Obama

2009-12-02T18:32:00.000-08:00

Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harborallowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

So here goes.
I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
I can't figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:
· "We're no longer a Christian nation"
· "America is arrogant" - (Your wife even announced to the world,"America is mean-spirited. " Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)
I'd say shame on the both of you but I don't think you like America nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.
After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals." Which ones did you mean?

1. Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British ?
2. Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War ?
3. I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers,husbands,and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII,because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around because we stand for freedom.
4. I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer,young man. Shape up and start acting like an American.If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue .You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts who was putting up a fight ? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are,terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life but you're the Commander-in-Chief now,son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president. You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes

Snow Hit's Alpha '09

2009-11-30T16:48:00.001-08:00

Snow Dec 08

Snow Feb 09

Snow Oct 09

Finished COD 6 on CQ

2009-11-25T01:14:00.001-08:00

Loading up the arms room

2009-11-24T10:08:00.001-08:00

Loading up the arms room

New Phone

2009-11-22T11:23:00.000-08:00

Old Phone

New Phone

New Sniper Rifle

2009-11-17T18:07:00.000-08:00

Arms room censored.

Night Vision

2009-11-17T09:03:00.001-08:00

Sgt Dodge Get's Out, Get's Bored

2009-11-15T14:28:00.000-08:00

Once u get out dont forget that theres nothing stopping u from doing anything u want to except yourself!

Happy Verteran's Day

2009-11-11T18:22:00.000-08:00

Left 2 Right: Great Grandpa, Dad, Me, & Grandpa

Great Grandpa was in WW1

Grandpa was in WW2

Dad served during Vietnam

Two Years Army Blogging

2009-11-11T12:10:00.000-08:00

h3re's to 2wo more year5

Joined New Site

2009-11-07T21:06:00.001-08:00

HERE'S MY PROFILE

Fox News

2009-11-03T12:41:00.001-08:00

1508 OpFor Sgt Piner

2009-11-02T14:11:00.001-08:00

0415

2009-11-02T03:18:00.001-08:00

Next Week - FOX NEWS!

2009-10-30T17:26:00.001-07:00

Snow in El Paso

2009-10-29T08:29:00.001-07:00

We Will Miss You Balsley

2009-10-29T04:10:00.001-07:00

New Do

2009-10-25T14:56:00.001-07:00

WWRJD?

2009-10-24T19:49:00.001-07:00

Shortly before SPC Balsley left he left a question.

Up Armored SRAT

2009-10-21T17:26:00.001-07:00

I saw this in the company parking lot.

CFC Rant

2009-10-20T06:38:00.001-07:00

Audio contains some adult language.

24hr Duty

2009-10-20T06:35:00.001-07:00

Comparing Vehicles

2009-10-16T08:15:00.001-07:00

From right to left:

Up armored Humvee, MRAP, SRAT

SRAT seat belts

2009-10-16T08:02:00.001-07:00

SRATS

2009-10-16T07:59:00.001-07:00

More picturtes of the new SRATS

Change of Command

2009-10-13T07:01:00.001-07:00

SSG Neujar on the right, prepping for Captain Sacks to Captain Price command Change of Alpha soon to be Bravo company.

Another Day @ Work

2009-10-08T13:51:00.001-07:00

New Job

2009-10-07T19:32:00.001-07:00

I'm moving up to the training room from the arms room.

Zombie Jeff Goldblum

2009-10-05T13:16:00.001-07:00

He sure is

Cpt Price

2009-10-01T08:49:00.001-07:00

inventoring the armsroom

Watching the saints

2009-09-30T19:28:00.000-07:00

with the boys from supply 0830

First AAM

2009-09-23T17:34:00.000-07:00

Army Achievement Medal

For our field problem from July 27th to August 10th 2009.

Here's some video of that field problem:

Armsroom Layout 03

2009-09-23T09:17:00.001-07:00

Checking for shortages in preparations for the change of command.

Capt Sacks is leaving:

Armsroom Layout 02

2009-09-23T07:02:00.001-07:00

Armsroom Layout

2009-09-23T06:53:00.001-07:00

Sunday Morning

2009-09-14T13:18:00.001-07:00

This is what my Sunday morning looked like.

Cross Fire FPS

2009-09-13T15:39:00.000-07:00

Too much fun!

Mercenaries 2

2009-09-13T00:11:00.001-07:00

Playing Mercanaries 2 at the USO

Army Strong Song

2009-09-09T16:55:00.000-07:00

This is the song found in all the new Army recruiting campaigns. It's a tough song to find:

If you would like to down this MP3, HERE'S THE LINK

Combatives Level 1 is Up

2009-09-06T11:07:00.001-07:00

IT'S HERE!

Combatives Video Series Started

2009-09-05T23:43:00.000-07:00

This is the first of I believe will be four parts of the Level 1 Combatives training video.

The complete series can be found at YouTube.com/BlueCord11B

Post Army Gear

2009-09-05T18:59:00.001-07:00

FIghting Videos Uploading

2009-09-05T16:28:00.000-07:00

I begun to upload combatives level 1 video part 1. they are all high quality (1.4 gigs,) so it's taking awhile around 3 hours every ten minutes of footage.

youtube.com/bluecord11b

Army Combatives Videos

2009-09-03T09:18:00.000-07:00

I've aquired a level 2 combatives instructing 2 disc DVD. I've ripped each movemnt into it's own mpeg and should be posting them this weekend and youtube.com/bluecord11b

Spartans!

2009-08-29T12:14:00.001-07:00

Your helmet is made of sheet metal!

Army Videos in HD

2009-08-28T15:24:00.000-07:00

KRISS Super V

2009-08-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

KRISS Super V XSMG System .45 ACP Submachine Gun

I want one.

Map Transition

2009-08-24T19:29:00.000-07:00

This is a FBCB2 to Google Maps transition:

The red "A" pointer was where our vehicle was. The grouped of blue and black circles were all the vechiles in that location.

See a larger version of the animation HERE

Here's the full picture of the FBCB2 from my phone

Here is the actuall google map of the location:

View Larger Map

The actuall grid quadinates are:

32.3898/-106.1548

You can put that into a google map search.

Marine Kicks BureauCRAP's Ars!!!

2009-08-24T16:05:00.000-07:00

Brian "No Brain" Baird get's his rear handed to him by Jar Head David Hedrick.

I love when David quotes his oath having to do with defending the Constitution against all threats, forgien and domestic.

The original video from David's own You Tube account

David being interviewed by Sean Hannity

David Hedrick intervied on Fox News,

by Gretchen Carlson (Fox and Friends.)

Watching Rush at work

2009-08-24T10:01:00.001-07:00

G.I. JOE SRAT

2009-08-23T14:33:00.001-07:00

Looks like the Joe's took a page out of FCS:

SRAT Article

Special-ist Field Commentary

2009-08-23T00:15:00.000-07:00

SUGV Video

2009-08-22T22:22:00.000-07:00

SRAT Article

2009-08-22T18:44:00.001-07:00

I've been looking for information on a vehicle I saw in the motorpool:

The U.S. Army is testing a new all-terrain vehicle based on the SRATS platform, built by STRATS, in cooperation with BAE Systems. According to a recent Army release, soldiers from Combined Task Force Currahee recently test-drove three such vehicles...

Original Article

See my pictures:

Picture 01

Picture 02

Awesome Gear From Morons

2009-08-22T00:19:00.001-07:00

See all the pictures here

(Username: mm Password: mm)

Military Morons

FCS 1:6 Warrior

2009-08-22T00:06:00.000-07:00

I wish I was testing THIS equipment.

Ares 2CAB July Recap Video

2009-08-20T20:43:00.001-07:00

Here's a look back at the Ares Company July Field Problem:

Chain-of-Command Jowls

2009-08-17T18:10:00.001-07:00

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

British Colonel

2009-08-16T23:09:00.000-07:00

British Colonel Matthew van Grutten stopped by our July field problem.

Admiral Thad W. Allen

2009-08-16T23:05:00.000-07:00

2nd Combined Arms Battalion w/ Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard. (Don Croswhite, seventh from the right)

AETF Pictures (off the world wide web)

2009-08-15T12:26:00.000-07:00

I searched the web for pictures of our guys in 5-1 2CAB A co. These are the ones I've found so far.

These pictures were found on open web sites:

http://www.armytimes.com, http://www.fbmonitor.com, http://nytimes.com/

Ares Company - Drudge Report / New York Times

2009-08-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

Our field prolem in July, where we were testing FCS equipment was reported on by the New York Times, and then reported on by Drudge.

I've uploaded the pages to Croswhite.com:

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Drudge Report page

The link is half way down on the left "ARMY TESTS DRONES AND ROBOTS FOR SOLDIERS..."

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New York Times page

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Ares Co Quickie - Captain Sacks

2009-08-15T01:07:00.000-07:00

Army + El Paso = weird weather

2009-08-14T22:46:00.000-07:00

New Gear

2009-08-09T20:09:00.000-07:00

I'm looking at getting some new gear, here's what I have so far:

This is the empty chest rig

This is the chest rig geared up.

Here's the medical butt pack kit, including:

2 x OP Airway size 3
2 x OP Airway size 4
2 x NP Airway size 6
2 x NP Airway size 7
2 x Resus Face Shields
1 x Suction Easy Device
4 x First Care Emergency Bandage 6"
4 x First Care Emergency Bandage 4"
4 x Triangular Bandage Calico Hemmed
2 x Kerlix Large Gauze Roll
2 x Quikclot ACS +
1 x M.A.T. Tourniquet
2 x Combat Application Tourniquet
6 x Pairs Nitrile Gloves size large
4 x Bolin Chest Seal
1 x Sprague Stethoscope
1 x Penlight Pupil Guage
1 x Sodium Chloride 0.9% for Injection 10ml
1 x Maxpedition Sabercat Versipack Khaki
1 x Poc-Kit Stretcher
3 x Straight Kelly Forceps
1 x Trauma Shears
1 x I.V. Fluid Giving Set
2 x Cannula 14G
2 x Cannula 18G
4 x I.V.Site Dressing
1 x Sodium Chloride 0.9% 500mls
1 x Venous Tourniquet Large
2 x Petzl Caritool

Spc Martin

2009-08-03T20:35:00.001-07:00

This is our attatched fister (artillery.)

Civilians

2009-08-03T20:31:00.001-07:00

Good thing we didn't need to sleep.

1973 Pepsi Can

2009-07-28T17:43:00.001-07:00

Check what i found in the field - 1973

Nulear Fall Out Shelter.

2009-07-24T16:13:00.001-07:00

Dragon in the docs office

2009-07-20T08:10:00.001-07:00

Night Vision Stars

2009-07-13T15:31:00.001-07:00