The welter of special rules and exemptions making one’s company eligible for government contracts has always been ripe for abuse.
Fascinating to watch Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. – a one-time UH-60 Black Hawk pilot who …
Recruiter’s Bag-o-Tricks: Trying to Get an Unqualified Applicant into the U.S. Military
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the All-Volunteer Force. As someone who was a U.S. Navy minority-officer recruiter in El Paso, Texas (1985-88) and Los Angeles (1988-91), as well as a contracted civilian U.S. Army enlisted …
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Army Captain Gates Brown saw it all during his 2006-2007 deployment to Iraq, most spent just north of Baghdad. He spoke of the good (trying to make a better life for young Iraqis), the bad (the apartness from Iraqis inherent in
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How Vets and Military Technology Are Helping at Home
MOORE, Okla. — William Gauntner quickly walks around a home hit by one of the tornados that recently devastated central Oklahoma. A Navy-vet-turned-firefighter with training in structural assessment, Gauntner records the …
Japan Learns Anew How to Fight From the Sea
TOKYO – It’s unlikely that Japan’s land, sea and air forces will sweep all before them anytime soon – and perhaps that’s best. But if they are required to defend or re-take any of Japan’s thousands of remote islands …
From the Same Folks Manning Two Legs of the Nuclear Triad
Official Air Force caption accompanying official Air Force photograph:
“6/24/2013 — An Airman uses a forklift to move a pallet during training June 21, 2013, on RAF Mildenhall, England. To comply with a U.S. Air Forces in …
Cap’n Crunch — And Nine Other Fake Military Titles
Yet another military scandal erupted earlier this month when Foodbeast blogger Charisma Madarang questioned the military service of Cap’n Crunch. While the cereal icon (né Horatio Magellan Crunch) has captained the S.S. Guppy …
Top Doc
Military medicine has received a lot of well-deserved attention in the wars launched since 9/11. More wounded troops than ever are surviving the battlefield, and there are many advances both there and back home that have made …
“From an architecture standpoint, certainly we could support that policy decision. But I guess I'll defer to the policymakers on whether that is a position that the United States, this Administration, the national leadership would choose to take. Within the system itself, on the platform, there's absolutely no reason we couldn't support that type of a policy decision.”
— Vice Admiral Terry Benedict, director of Navy Strategic System Programs, speaking Wednesday on whether the submarine fleet’s nuclear missiles can be taken off their current hair-trigger alert, as advocated in this report. Candidate Barack Obama said he would work with the Russians to de-alert nuclear weapons, but his 2010 Nuclear Posture Review opted to keep the nation’s nuclear weapons primed for attack.
Helicopter Gunship
A CH-47 Chinook flies an M777 howitzer from FOB Hadrian to Kandahar airfield June 18.
Congress Says Special-Ops Budget Top Too Secret
While details on spending on specific national-security programs are sometimes kept from the public, such secrecy is not supposed to extend to Congress. Lawmakers are supposed to have detailed information on Executive-Branch …
How Edward Snowden Snuck Through
Background checks are one of those commodities you typically only realize are flawed when it’s too late, after someone who shouldn’t have been cleared is caught doing some nefarious deed.
As Edward Snowden is traipsing …
What Is PTSD…And Who Is It For?
The light went on in my head during a debate over PTSD nomenclature last year.
Then-president of the American Psychiatric Association, John Oldham, was chairing a session entitled Combat-Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?
A …