The network was on the Carnival Triumph story like flies on, um, the Carnival Triumph.
Media coverage
Korresponts Koreedoor
We reported last month about the Defense Department taking down the sign honoring a Pentagon hallway as the “Correspondents Corridor” and replacing it with one highlighting “ASD Public Affairs.” ASD is Pentagon-speak for …
The Time Has Come for an English Language Latino Network
Marketers, media and politicians take note: demographics indicate that more than half of Hispanics born in the U.S. are now English dominant—and the statistic is growing
“I Shot 29 Bullets and 212 Images”
Battleland has been impressed by the photographic chops of Army Sergeant Mike MacLeod since his images began showing up in the Pentagon’s daily photo file several months ago. We’ve posted many of them on this site. It’s
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Drones Flying In Really Close Formation
It has always been amazing to hang out at the rear of an Air Force refueling tanker as the boom extends to provide fuel to thirsty jet fighters below. Flying at hundreds of knots in close formation is a delicate, and dangerous, …
Marine Corps: “Battleland” Cutoff a Snafu
The Marine Corps is now explaining why its computers have been denied access recently to this blog. A spokesman says it was done automatically, and not deliberately. By mid-morning, access to Battleland from corps computers had …
Marines Say “No” To Battleland…
Marine readers of Battleland have let us know that as of last week the corps is denying them access to this site from their work computers:
I enjoy your blog and read it at work on my NMCI (Navy Marine Corps Intranet) computer. Then a couple of days after your article “What’s wrong with The Marines?“, the below message came up when
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The Man Who Believed Himself
TOKYO – Wars can attract some odd, fringe characters, but I never met anyone stranger or more out on the fringe than Jonathan Keith Idema, who died recently in Mexico of complications from AIDS.
A career con artist and military wannabe, Idema showed up early during the war in Afghanistan. He posed variously as a government …
Tick, Tick, Tick: Another Absurd Headline
I wrote recently about the press reporting on veteran-committed crimes as a trend of veteran/psychopaths returned from the war. CNN and the Christian Science Monitor were guilty last week. Now it’s USA Today’s turn. According to the bonehead editor who came up with this sensationalist headline, returned veterans are ticking …
F-22 Mishap: Pilot To Blame, Not Hardware
The accident investigation into the F-22 that crashed last November is out, and is being read closely by Air Force pilots like myself. According to an article published last week in Air Force Times, the crash has been officially …
Live: Pak Death Attack Scene
Pakistan’s military has released video footage from the scene of Saturday’s mistaken nighttime U.S. air raid that killed 24 Pakistani troops. While U.S. officials believe Pakistan’s civilian government would like to get relations between Islamabad and Washington back to their normal rocky state, the military’s release of this …
A Terrorist by Any Other Name
Normally I would have let this go. But, wow, sometimes the level of stupidity demands a comment.
Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh took President Obama to task for sending troops to central Africa in an effort to take out Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. This in itself isn’t newsworthy. Limbaugh would take the President to task …
Getting the Story Out – Lessons From Fallujah
TOKYO – The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be winding down, but news reporters still go out daily to cover US troops risking their lives in combat zones — stories that can serve the purposes of both news organizations and the military alike.
The Institute for Defense Analyses has produced an interactive training guide for US …
