If there is one thing you’d figure the U.S. Army didn’t lack, it would be tents. But you’d be wrong.
The folks at Fort Carson are seeking “high-quality tents and accessories needed to make them operational” for …
Pentagon
F-22 Pilots Can Breathe Easier Now
White House Says al-Qaeda’s No. 2 Killed
A drone strike in Pakistan has netted a big fish: al-Qaeda’s No. 2, Abu Yahya al-Libi, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Asked about al-Libi’s reported death at Tuesday’s White House briefing, Carney initially was equivocal: “I can tell you that our intelligence community has intelligence that leads them to …
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“We also reached agreement on reverse transit from Afghanistan with three Central Asian partners: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. These agreements will give us a range of new options and a robust and flexible transport network we need.”
More Suspect Reports from Both Sides of the DMZ
We’ve learned that U.S. Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley is being rotated from his post as head of U.S. Special Forces in South Korea days after he ignited a controversy by declaring that U.S. and South Korean special forces …
“Going Postal”
Any soldier’ll tell you that mail from home – even in this day of cell phones and email – is a real morale-booster for troops on the front lines.
Army Major Peter Perzel pulled postal duty during his assignment in Iraq in 2008-09, before a second tour in Afghanistan in 2009-10. He shared some of what he learned in a …
Graduation Day
Flying Through the Glass Ceiling
Countdown to Sequestration: Seven Months to Go
Over the weekend, the nation moved within seven months of End of the World Wednesday. That would be January 2, assuming Congress and the President can’t come up with $1.2 trillion in budget reductions over the next decade. Absent a deal, another $600 billion in defense cuts, would be piled atop the $487 billion already carved from the …
P.T. Barnum: Call Your Office
Think of it as the Good Housekeeping SEALS of Approval. It turns out a pair of former Navy special-forces types are turning out potions — “exclusively formulated nutraceuticals,” as they call them – to help you perform like a SEAL:
As U.S. Navy SEALs, we needed our bodies strong and our minds sharp to accomplish our missions even
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Breast-Feeding … in Uniform
Breast-feeding while in uniform has suddenly become a hot topic since two Washington Air National Guard moms were photographed in uniform while nursing their babies.
The photos were posted by the group Mom2Mom to promote World Breast-feeding Week coming in August. The group, founded by a military wife on Fairchild Air Force Base, was …
Drone Worrier
On the eve of the 1991 Gulf War – as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops streamed toward Iraq-occupied Kuwait – a U.S. Army officer remarked how much easier all this would be if someone – a Saddam Hussein turncoat, …