National Guard
Seeds of Peace
Army Colonel Brian Copes and the Indiana Army National Guard headed off to war with a pitchfork, not a rifle. As commander of the 1-19th Agribusiness Development Team in Afghanistan in 2009, Copes’ team deployed to Khost …
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Births of a Nation
Coming Soon to Your Town: Sequestration Road Tour
Americans will celebrate Memorial Day next month, and honor those who’ve died while serving to protect the rest of us. But some concerned members of Congress are going to skip their hometown barbeques so they can hit the road: …
George W. Bush and the Texas Air National Guard
Speaking (as we just did awhile back about LBJ’s past) of presidential recollections, it’s hard to believe this was the hottest story going for several weeks eight years ago. In the May issue of Texas Monthly, Joe Hagan does a masterful job of cutting through the fog of war, and politics, to offer the most complete examination yet on …
Remember When Soldiers Did This?
Iraqi IEDs: Payback Time
This doesn’t happen very often:
1. An Iraqi made IEDs during the most violent years of the conflict.
2. One of his bombs may have killed four members of the Pennsylvania National Guard in 2005.
3. The bomb-builder, …
Second U.S. Troop Killed in Afghan Interior Ministry ID’d
Army National Guard Major Robert J. Marchanti II, 48, was a former elementary-school gym teacher just outside Baltimore. He and Air Force Lt. Col. John Darin Loftis were working inside a small room at the National Police Coordination Center in the Afghan interior ministry Saturday afternoon when a ministry driver entered and killed …
Enhancing Life for the “General Soldier Population”
Most Department of Defense inspector general’s reports are pretty dry reading, full of green-eyeshade mumbo-jumbo that – while undoubtedly important and vital (remember: the Pentagon’s books remain officially unauditable) …
Why Spend $139K For a Soldier You Can Get for $44K?
How much of our military do we need perpetually trained to the highest readiness level, and how much can we safely consign to the reserve forces? It’s a debate that is going to start heating up anew later this week, when the Pentagon reveals a little of what it is planning to spend money on beginning in 2013 (everything will end up …
Super Committee Failure Hits Military Hard
Politicians can shrug off the congressional Super Committee’s failure to agree on meaningful deficit reduction. To them, it’s just another budget gimmick that didn’t pan out. But for the U.S. military, the Super Committee …