The Moore tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes. But you can’t understand the full extent of the devastation until you view it from far above
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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 …
Happy 114th Birthday to Jeralean Talley, The Oldest Living American!
Be nice, worship God and eat pigs’ feet: That’s how Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Michigan says she lived to celebrate her 114th birthday today
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. …
The Next Real Estate Bubble Has Already Begun
Ever since the financial crisis, market watchers have worried about bubbles in the stock market, in high yield debt, and even the reinflation of the real estate bubble. The latest asset class to receive worried attention from …
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 …
Boy Scouts of America Has A Lot To Learn From the Girl Scouts
After months of delay, Boys Scouts of America (BSA) is finally voting today to overturn its ban on “openly gay” scouts (though not scout leaders—those are still verboten.)
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
— An estimate of how much additional cocaine will flow into the U.S. through October because of sequester-mandated cuts to aircraft and ships dedicated to hunting down drug smugglers. Last year, U.S. authorities seized 36 tons of cocaine on American soil. “Just the sequester cuts themselves is more than all the cocaine taken by all the law-enforcement agencies within our borders last year,” Coast Guard Rear Admiral Charles Michel, one of the nation's top cocaine cops, said Wednesday.
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 …
Theme Park Inflation: Universal Orlando Becomes First to Cross $90 Admission Mark
It’s become an annual springtime tradition. Each year around Memorial Day, some theme park—likely in central Florida—jacks up ticket prices by a few bucks, prompting the competition to follow suit with their own price hikes.