“In some ways, it feels like I’m leaving family behind to an uncertain future.”
Should the National Football League allow women on the playing field? After all, they can kick and carry a ball, and professional football is one industry in which women are sorely under-represented, to say the least.
It’s …
The U.S. is pursuing a self-destructive grand strategy in the Middle East. It’s based on a pair of conflicting objectives, each bathed with high-toned rhetoric about promoting human rights and democracy:
A Marine M-1 Abrams Main Battle Tank provides suppressive fire against simulated insurgents at Twentynine Palms, Calif.
On April 28, 1993, the Combat Exclusion Policy that prohibited women from taking combat aircraft assignments was finally lifted by then-Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank B. Kelso was the …
Honor student and majorette Hadiya Pendleton, 15, was gunned down in a shooting barely a mile from President Obama’s Chicago home.
I look down and I see my combat boots walking over the dust-filled rocky landscape again.
I feel like I am over-heating under the weight of my kit.
The sun is so bright, and the sound of the rocks rubbing together sends …
When I heard Leon Panetta’s announcement about lifting the combat restrictions on women in the military, I immediately thought of former Army National Guard Sergeant Paigh Bumgarner.
Bumgarner had deployed to Iraq, where she …
A B-52H Stratofortess comes in for a landing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Jan. 7.
…why can’t U.S. soldiers change on the fly, depending on their changing mission?
Apparently, they soon will be able to, according to this recently-updated solicitation, which begins:
The Soldier Protection System
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With corporations (and dilettante millionaires) taking over cattleraising, the family-owned ranch may soon ride into the sunset
We noted a couple of weeks ago the Navy’s efforts to try to reduce sexual assaults in the ranks by getting rid of the so-called “bystander mentality.” That’s where people – in the instant case, sailors – look the other way …
Over breakfast the other day, a four-star general said the budget crunch means that any contract he issued for more than $5 million now needs a higher-up’s OK. He joked that he’d probably be issuing a lot more $4.9 million contracts soon.
At least Battleland thought he was joking.
The first three items listed in Friday’s roster of …
