Remember the sequester? Those broad, blunt government cuts that kicked in on March 1?
There were lots of doomsday predictions about what would happen when the $85.4 billion in spending reductions took effect …
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Canine Commandos
We noted back in March that the SEALs were seeking outside trainers to mold the dogs that accompany them on their secret missions into lean, mean biting machines, and whatever else might be required.
Naval Special Warfare …
No More Getting Lost in Translation
By now, we must be in “stanza 10” of a song that’s been playing on repeat for years.
Each stanza, although worded with its own flavor, tells the same story: service members risk their lives for our country; they …
What’s Behind The Drop in U.S. Teen Birth Rates
Teen birth rates in the U.S., which have been declining for two decades, have reached a record low, with significant drops in almost every state.
$21,615,600,000
— The cost growth in Pentagon weaponry, from December 2011 to December 2012, due to increased quantities of arms slated to be bought. Twenty-two billion dollars may sound like a lot of money, but it represents only a 1.3% boost in the $1,660,983,300,000 total the U.S. military is spending on its 78 major weapons systems, according to the Pentagon's latest Selected Acquisition Report released Thursday, here. Overall cost growth was nearly $40 billion; the $22 billion increase is solely due to 2012’s plan to buy more ships, planes and missiles than had been called for in 2011. And you thought the Pentagon was cutting back.
An Airway Created with a 3D Printer Saved This Baby’s Life
If you think 3D printing’s overhyped with all this talk of plastic guns and strange, spider-like houses, you clearly haven’t seen this: a tiny airway splint created using a 3D printer that saved a three-month-old’s life.
MRAP Medevac
Marines fasten a damaged MRAP to a Kalmar RT240 rough terrain container handler in Helmand province, May 19.
I-5 Bridge Collapse Caused by Truck Hitting Span
(MOUNT VERNON, Wash.) — The Washington State Patrol chief says the Interstate 5 bridge collapse into the Skagit (SKA’-jiht) River at Mount Vernon was caused by an oversize truck.
Chief John Batiste (buh-TEEST’) told an …
Jury in Arias Case Gives Up After No Consensus
(PHOENIX) — As jurors in Jodi Arias’ murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the …
Are School Closings Discriminatory?
Chicago returned to the center of the national debate over the future of public education this week as the city’s school board voted to shut down 50 schools.
Boy Scouts Approve Plan to Accept Openly Gay Boys
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass …
IRS Replaces Official Who Oversaw Targeting
(WASHINGTON) — The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was …
“We expect, first of all, commanders to pick their very best. We don't have data on it, but I'm concerned to this point. Too many of these positions may have been filled in a way in which someone had an honorable record, but was otherwise available, so they were assigned to these what we believe to be critically important positions.”
— Army Secretary John McHugh acknowledging to a Senate committee Wednesday, sort of, what many in the service whisper: that too many less-than-stellar officers have been put in charge of the Army’s sexual-assault prevention programs and training efforts.
“This War, Like All Wars, Must End.”
President Obama channeled John Lennon Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington.
