“These cuts, while significant and harmful to our collective mission as an agency, would not necessarily require immediate reductions in spending…I do not expect our day-to-day operations to change dramatically on or immediately after January 2, 2013, should sequestration occur.”
“We absolutely cannot know for certain that fewer numbers of weapons will make us safer.”
It’s hardly a coincidence that this tale surfaces just before Christmas. It’s about a new book set in the European skies in 1943. Military historian Adam Makos, editor of Valor magazine, has written A Higher Call: An …
Private 1st Class Michaela Cantwell earned her way into boot camp by meeting application criteria and raising the necessary funds for a uniform and equipment. She cried after her first session. Not because it was too tough on …
A U.S. solider trains a wary eye on a water pump in Farah province, Dec. 15.
Well. It’s about time:
Washington, D.C. – Congressional conferees have approved a repeal of a policy in place since 1981 that denied women in the military coverage for abortion in cases of rape or incest. An effort led by
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The amount of discussion you get on various military topics depends on how many folks are “read into” – aware of, and knowledgeable (usually) about – any given program or subject.
That’s why you hear so little debate …
Air Force Major Ethan McKenna is one of those war-fighters in the nation’s post-9/11 wars who spends his time way above the battlefield. That’s because he’s monitoring things five miles down from inside the back of an AWACS …
Sgt. Nathan Fleshman of the 101st Airborne Division checks a cave for insurgents and weapons in Khost province, Nov. 30.
I graduated high school and entered college, and ROTC, in 1973 – the year we transitioned to the all-volunteer force (AVF).
Georgetown University was not exactly a hotbed of student activism, but as I recall ROTC was …
“Bravo sat in on almost all of the meetings involving the operation against bin Laden. And you know, to this day he hasn't told a damn soul what happened.”
“Well, we’ve now obviously established that this wasn’t a beauty contest.”
That was my opening line as I peered out into an audience of Marines in their dress blues, as well as a flotilla of three- and four-star …
Out of the mouths of junior officers:
Lieutenant James Drennan writes in the latest issue of Proceedings, the naval service’s professional journal, that too many of the senior officers he is supposed to look up to are …
