Military commanders are lining up to tell Congress they don’t have enough resources to accomplish their many missions as ongoing defense budget cuts catch up to those in uniform and hinder mission success.
President Obama …
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Women’s History Month: You Go, Girls!
I have been thinking about Women’s History Month since March began. Then, I saw that March 8 was International Women’s Day, an event that has taken place worldwide since the early 1900s. According to its website, it began amid the turbulence of the industrial age when women started realizing their oppressed and subordinate …
Bravo Zulu, Big E: Final Sail Ends 50 Years’ Service
The USS Enterprise left Norfolk Sunday on its 22nd – and final – deployment. The Navy’s first nuclear-powered flattop has been cruising the world’s oceans since her commissioning in 1961, playing a role in major U.S. …
Life, and Death, on the Fringe
It was with great sadness Wednesday that I learned of the death of retired TOPGUN pilot Navy Captain Carroll LeFon, killed Tuesday morning when his jet crashed at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.
LeFon was better known
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Update: About That F-35 Audit
Surprise! Pentagon Watchdog Checking Out F-35 Program
The Department of Defense Inspector General’s March newsletter contains this nugget:
Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) Quality Assurance Assessment. The objective of this assessment is to assess the quality management system for the Joint Strike Fighter procured by DoD from Lockheed Martin Corporation. The assessments will be performed
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SEALs Seek Ship
The Navy’s Military Sealift Command is sniffing around the nation’s shipping industry to see if there’s someone who might be able to help the service’s SEALs get around.
Lots of this is secret, of course, but the Pentagon …
More on Ship-Naming Controversies: About the USS Gabrielle Giffords
The next Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will be named for Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who recently resigned from Congress so she can concentrate on healing after an assassination attempt last year. This news was …
Navy Seeking More Minority SEALs
About That Mistaken Shootdown: The Rest of the Story
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President Obama’s Defense Budget Falling Flat on Capitol Hill
Thursday morning, the Defending Defense coalition—The American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Foreign Policy Initiative—will host members of Congress discussing the negative consequences of the Obama …
