BattlelandAir Force
Having flown on the C-17 many times, Battleland knows it’s a good airplane. Production of the cargo aircraft for the U.S. Air Force is all but done; the Pentagon stopped listing it in its regular cost reports back in 2009. That …
BattlelandChina
Beijing is reacting to the Pentagon’s so-called “pivot to Asia,” and not in a friendly way. Amid several recent naval exercises — including the 22-nation RIMPAC now underway around Hawaii – China doesn’t like what it …
BattlelandNavy
No, not the state – the battleship: the USS Texas (BB-35), a 32,000-ton vessel that fired 255 14-inch shells toward Nazi positions during D-Day’s opening 34 minutes in 1944. The 100-year old vessel has been on display in the …
BattlelandAfghanistan
It was just over a year ago that a senior U.S. military officer in Afghanistan was raving about the solar-powered streetlights popping up in Kabul:
There is no reliable electric grid here in this city of 5 million people, and so
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“My mind in the past couple of years has folded on itself. I just went to the Dr. and they said I just tested positive for Dementia.”
BattlelandSnafus
In sociology, the “broken-windows theory” holds that if a neighborhood or city doesn’t fix its broken windows and graffiti, the environment will continue to descend into crime, chaos and violence.
In Brazil, apparently, it means something quite different. Check out this pair of Brazilian air force Mirage 2000 fighters flying too …
BattlelandPacific
TOKYO – In a gesture of friendship and goodwill toward an obscure former ally, warships from New Zealand have been granted special, private berthing privileges for a major naval exercise now underway in Hawaii. And wouldn’t …
“Yesterday morning we had a large video conference with Afghanistan to discusses our ongoing efforts to develop a natural gas and power project in the north of Afghanistan, which we almost had to cancel because of lack of power in Washington, D.C.”
BattlelandMarines
Women are slowly creeping into combat positions across the U.S. military. Bars on their service in fighter jets fell 20 years ago, and they’re now heading out to sea, under the sea, aboard submarines. The Army and Marines are both grappling with opening up even more opportunities in the classic front-line combat roles: infantry, …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The Schriever Sentinel reports that an (unfortunately unidentified) airman at Colorado’s Buckley Air Force Base wondered earlier this year how come the reverse sides of signs on post needed to be painted brown. After all, he reasoned, the base could save money if they were left in their original galvanized state.
Bingo! His …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
What does the Pentagon get for that kind of money these days? Well, according to a Navy contract announced Tuesday, it gets five years of
…leadership teams, providing expertise in change management, barrier identification and
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