The shocking and bizarre death of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle – at the hands of a fellow combat vet – in Texas last …
S-O-S: Save Our Ship!
One of the world’s grandest ocean liners, built to move thousands of soldiers to distant battlefields, may face her final voyage.
Sorry, But Japan Still Can’t Get the War Right
TOKYO – After weeks of muddled statements, verbal gaffes and bungled photo ops, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made one thing unintentionally clear: He thinks Japan did little wrong in its years of war and colonial expansion, …
“A Better Return on Investment”
The folks at Georgia’s Fort Stewart Army post think they do a good job. Fact is, they think their work is good enough that it qualifies for a 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Those are those annual …
“If a perpetrator [of a sexual assault] shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons, and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, you know, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.”
— Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, explaining Friday why the post-9/11 wars may have shielded some troops from punishment for sexual assaults.
Climbing Season
A CH-47F Chinook ferries base-camp supplies Apr. 26 to the Kahiltna Glacier for climbers on Mount McKinley this summer.
Why the Rebels Aren’t Winning
The short message screeched over a walkie-talkie, prompting the half a dozen rebels in the room who had been lounging on flat mattresses and drinking tea to jump to their feet, grab their guns and run out of the door.
It was …
Overheard on the Flight Deck of the USS George H.W. Bush
SOMEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC, Friday, May 17:
F-18 #1: You know, they say these things can really fly.
F-18 #2: Yea…you see ‘em launch one a couple days ago?
#1: You bet…it was awesome!
[X-47B passes overhead with a
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“People are always surprised that the reason I don’t like lobster is that I got tired of it on deployment in Kosovo.”
— Former Army medic Corrie Blackshear, in Parade magazine's Sunday cover story, here, on military cooks.
Biowelfare?
Ex-Navy secretary Richard Danzig, also an expert on bio weapons and adviser to Senator Barack Obama when the Illinois Democrat was running for President, has urged the U.S. government to spend millions stockpiling a drug to …
“Who would want to steal a Purple Heart?”
— Joseph M. Ford Sr., of New Bedford, Mass., lamenting, here, the theft of the decoration commemorating the death of his son, Marine Lance Cpl. Michael L. Ford, in a 2006 IED blast in Iraq.
Tracking CINCellulite
The Pentagon has been complaining for years that the impending budget cuts – slated to return it to 2007 levels of spending – will cripple national security.
Kind of hard to believe there aren’t smart reductions yet to …
Japan Assault Fleet Arrives at Pearl Harbor…Just For Practice
TOKYO – Warships from Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Force have been making stops at the American naval base at Pearl Harbor for more than two decades. But it’s going to seem strange, indeed, when Japanese ground troops …
