“We expect, first of all, commanders to pick their very best. We don't have data on it, but I'm concerned to this point. Too many of these positions may have been filled in a way in which someone had an honorable record, but was otherwise available, so they were assigned to these what we believe to be critically important positions.”
“This War, Like All Wars, Must End.”
President Obama channeled John Lennon Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington.
Procuremania
Just because a military capability can be bought doesn’t necessarily mean it should be bought.
That thought surfaced while reading a bid-protest ruling concerning the Air Force’s purchase of Guardian Angel Air-Deployable …
Fighting Sexual Harassment…and Suicides
“I’m under a lot of pressure to have sex,” explained the young Hispanic Army sergeant. She then named the company’s senior non-commissioned officer, an Army master sergeant, as the culprit who was sexually harassing her. …
PTSD Can Make You Jump Off a Mountain
That’s how bad the mental wreckage of war apparently got for former Marine Sergeant Edward S. Passetto.
On May 12, authorities said the Pittsfield, Mass. man’s body they found halfway down Monument Mountain in western …
Chinook “Trick or Treat”
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne prepare for a night air assault op in Nangarhar province, May 14.
Peeping Sergeant 1st Class (First Class, Indeed)
Last week, the Army removed Sergeant First Class Michael McClendon from his assignment at the U.S. Military Academy for allegedly videoing female cadets at West Point, sometimes while showering.
The Army apparently only owned …
38 Metric Tons
From Battlefield to Business Success
U.S. military veterans are coming home from war with tales to tell family and friends.
But these stories may not be about combat or the trials and tribulations of life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Instead, believe it or not, …
Nuclear Winter of Our Discontent
Always interesting when the Army starts poking around the nation’s nuclear stockpile – seeing as the service is no longer a big player in the atomic realm – to see if atomic weapons still make sense.
Ward Wilson isn’t …
How Brown Was My Valley
Army Sgt. Zach Smola, rear-door gunner on a CH-47, keeps watch on the mountains in Uruzgan province, May 12.
The Nightmare Continues
The Army announced late Tuesday afternoon that it has suspended the commanding general of the post that trains half its troops and all its drill sergeants due to allegations of “adultery and a physical altercation.”
The …
