Slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle has been dead for just over a month, but already there’s a plan afoot to honor the sniper forever in bronze.
Greg Marra from Sarasota, Fla., has created a life-size sculpture of the 6-foot-3 Kyle …
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“Welcome to Your In-Box, Sir”
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel meets Marine General Joe Dunford after landing in Kabul March 8.
Ambition? Or Hubris?
Skimming Pentagon contract announcements and solicitations can give one a sense of just how much the federal government is trying to do in the national-security arena.
But sometimes you come across one that makes you scratch …
725,000
— The latest Rand Corp. estimate of how many of the 2.4 million U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq may have come home with a traumatic brain injury or PTSD. It surfaces in a new report, here, that estimates between 275,000 and 1 million Americans have, or are, spending time as caregivers for loved ones wounded in the wars. Nearly all such caregivers – 96% -- are women. Definitely gives a new meaning to the phase “women in combat.”
Sky Pilot
Chaplains can be an important part of life for troops in combat. Chatting with Chappie can help them through tough times without the baggage they sense they’d incur by visiting their unit’s psychiatrist or other kind of …
“There’s an old saying in the Pentagon – they call it the mushroom theory, about civilian appointees: you bring them in, keep them in the dark for a year, feed ‘em bullshit, and harvest a new crop the next year.”
— Former Navy secretary and U.S. senator James Webb, speaking Thursday at the Center for the National Interest about the challenges facing new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel inside the Pentagon.
“Hey — Check Out Those Solar-Powered Streetlights!”
Sgt. 1st Class Freddy Bloom directs a patrol through the city of Chorah on Feb. 23.
Disruptive Impatience
Most folks working for the Department of Veterans Affairs are good people dedicated to their mission. But not all are.
Come to find out, the same thing’s true of their patients, according to the charmingly-titled new report, …
Zimmerman Lawyers Waive ‘Stand Your Ground’ Hearing
In a surprise move leading up to the murder trial of George Zimmerman, defense lawyers have waived his right to a “stand your ground” hearing, removing the last major barrier to bringing the case to trial this summer.
A Military-Justice Immelman?
In flying, an Immelman is a kind of looping turn, popular during World War I, that sends an aircraft in the opposite direction.
Did the U.S. Air Force just pull an Immelman in the sexual-misconduct case of Lieut. Colonel James …
Grounded: Blue Angels and Thunderbirds
You knew that was coming, right? Just didn’t think the Navy and Air Force would have enough sense of humor about it to make it effective April 1.
The Air Force Thunderbirds, here, are the precision flyboys who put their …
Seabees’ (for Construction Battalion) Birthday!
A Seabee uses an entrenching tool and backhoe to cut a cake in honor of the Seabees’ 71st birthday, Mar. 5.
The Disturbingly Hot Tourist Activity in Hawaii, Vegas: Shooting Guns
Tourists have been known to spend good money on a wide range of thrilling, only-on-vacation activities. Target practice with an assault weapon can now be added to the list.