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Anyone who has been around the Army a little while has seen this - the old guy in the guy in the guy or out at the PT track lifting more weight than is reasonable, doing more push-ups than you and me, running faster than his stumpy legs and beer belly should allow. For a few years now I've been living in that stage between young-man endurance and 'old-man strength,' waiting to be able to accomplish ridiculous feats of physical prowess with no connection to the actual work put...read more
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I like to think that my recent call out for thoughts on the role/respect of Soldiers in the general public was the catalyst behind last week's article in the New York Times. (Thanks to my friend Jen for posting it on Fb.) Among other things, the author says we need to take Soldiers down off a pedestal and start treating them like human beings. We're not perfect, and even though many of us (myself excluded) do hard or heroic things, most of us don't....read more
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You'll have forgive this brief aside into a personal - and very nerdy - topic. And before I go any further I have to give you a little background ... I am a tech geek. I really get into the latest gadgets, and even if I don't blow tons of money on them any more, I like to think I'm keeping up with what's new. Rewind to summer 2009, Palm (yes, maker of the original Palm Pilot (I had a knockoff by Philips)) releases the Palm Pre smartphone. It tanks in the marketplace,...read more
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I mentioned last time that I wanted to write a piece about officership and ethics. But in order to get it right, I think I need ot have a questions answered first. I want to know who out there cares whether or not we, as Soldiers and officer, hold ourselves to a set of ethics/values that the rest of America doesn't seem interested in practicing themselves? Do you? It seems many people recognize and congratulate us for our service, our willingness to do hard things...read more
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I've been back from ILE for exactly a month now and I've finally got a chance to come up for air. I don't remember my job being quite so hard ... I hated the last week at Fort Gordon, but in retrospect it was actually pretty good. We were all anxious to get home (and out of the ridiculous southern heat) but managed to hold it together through our last tactical planning exercise. The biggest event to hit my last week there was moving out of the lodging on post...read more
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Not only is today Flag Day - commemorating the adoption of our Stars & Stripes as our national flag during the Second Continental Congress in 1777 - it is also the Army's birthday! Now 236 years young, the Army remains America's premier ground fighting force (sorry, Marine Corps). You can check out the fancy video the Chief of Staff of the Army, GEN Dempsey, presented recently at the Army's Birthday Ball. Part of the traditional birthday celebration is the...read more
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You may have noticed a growing flood of new media participation by the Army's 'middle management.' Part of our required professional development is attendance at Intermediate Level Education (ILE) - a program in two forms that will last either 4 or 10 months. I've talked about it a good bit lately because I'm in the process of finishing my last two weeks of ILE at Fort Gordon, GA. As part of our graduation requirements, every student is required to a)...read more
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I mentioned a couple weeks ago that we've been using our time here at ILE to stay (or get back) in shape. Here's a photo of some of the hard core PT crew here at Fort Gordon, fresh off an Insanity workout yesterday, which we followed with a round of P90X Ab Ripper! We worked up a little sweat ...
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The last few weeks here at ILE have been busy. I've got one more follow-up report from MilBlogCon and a book review coming, but I've been busy here with tests, group briefing projects, and research for a required (if relatively short) history paper. But even with the readings and the class requirements, we've had plenty of time here to exercise! This is primarily because most of us are here in Georgia without our families and away from our regular jobs for 4...read more
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The American Bar Association has just unveiled a new website - ABA Home Front - designed to offer information and resources aimed at and related to military families. It includes information on the Service-Member Civil Relief Act, a variety of family law issues, a directory of state-specific legal services, and a referral service for pro-bono (free) legal advice. Coming from the nation's premier organization of legal professionals, this is likely to be a great source of useful...read more
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Benjamin Grimes
| Affiliation: | Active Duty |
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| Rank: | Major |
| Branch: | Judge Advocate General |
| MOS/AOC: | JAG Corps Attorney/27A |
| Location: | Tacoma, WA |
| Hometown: | York |
About Me:
MAJ Grimes has been in the Army since graduating from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1996, spending his first 4 years in service as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot before being selected to attend law school under the Funded Legal Education Program.
Since graduating from New York University School of Law, MAJ Grimes has served as an Administrative Law Attorney, Trial Counsel (Prosecutor) and Senior Trial Counsel, Brigade Legal Adviser, Trial Defense Counsel, and Judge Advocate Recruiting Officer. After earning his LL.M. from the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School, he was assigned as the Senior Defense Counsel for Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in Washington state.
His previous assignments include Fort Rucker (Alabama), South Korea, Fort Campbell (Kentucky), Germany, Fort Myer (Virginia) and Washington, D.C., and deployment to Iraq as the Senior Trial Counsel for Multi-National Corps -- Iraq. MAJ Grimes is married and has two children.
Since graduating from New York University School of Law, MAJ Grimes has served as an Administrative Law Attorney, Trial Counsel (Prosecutor) and Senior Trial Counsel, Brigade Legal Adviser, Trial Defense Counsel, and Judge Advocate Recruiting Officer. After earning his LL.M. from the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School, he was assigned as the Senior Defense Counsel for Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in Washington state.
His previous assignments include Fort Rucker (Alabama), South Korea, Fort Campbell (Kentucky), Germany, Fort Myer (Virginia) and Washington, D.C., and deployment to Iraq as the Senior Trial Counsel for Multi-National Corps -- Iraq. MAJ Grimes is married and has two children.
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