Physical fitness has always been important in the military. It certainly has become a factor in promotions — and even retention — over the last 30 years. When I joined the Navy in 1979, I wasn’t the most fit person in the …
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Unfriendly F-22 Fire
At $358 million a copy, it’s fairly easy to find folks in the Pentagon critical of the value-added of the Air Force’s F-22 fighter. It’s a little tougher to find someone in the Air Force to take on the $67 billion program. …
Lawsuit Filed After Cop Tasers 10-Year-Old Student During Career Day
What should have been a run-of-the-mill Career Day presentation at a New Mexico elementary school in May took a bizarre turn when a cop shot a 10-year-old student with a 50,000-volt taser gun, the Smoking Gun reported.
Supply Lions
Marines prepare to leave Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province to resupply three forward operating bases, Oct. 23.
After Hurricane Sandy, Bloomberg Endorses Obama
After previously indicating that he wasn’t going to back either candidate this election cycle, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Obama in a column for Bloomberg News emphasizing that — in the wake of …
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Countdown to Sequestration: Two Months to Go
Hard to believe that after six months of counting down to Jan. 2 – when the Pentagon faces a cut of a half-trillion dollars over the coming decade – that neither Congress nor President Obama has done much of anything to avert …
Recreational Marijuana: Will Washington State Pioneer Legalizing Weed?
Polls indicate the initiative has a strong chance of passing. But a DUI provision has pro-pot advocates steaming
Boardwalk Catastrophe: Atlantic City Looks to Pick Up the Pieces After Sandy
New Jersey’s seaside gambling hot spot felt the full force of Hurricane Sandy. Now residents face a struggle to recover
New England in Ruins: Recalling the Great Hurricane of ’38
More than 70 years before Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc across the eastern U.S., a terrifying, legendary storm swept through New England, leaving an eerily similar geography of ruin in its wake.
Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Sting to Headline NBC’s Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert
Some of New Jersey’s most famous natives will take to the airwaves tomorrow night—along with at least one performer born an ocean away from the United States’ Eastern Seaboard—to help that state and its neighbors recover …
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Thank God They Don’t Have Nukes Yet
Twenty-seven cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs were injured last week following a first-snow fracas that has, um, snowballed in recent years from frolic to brawl. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that the …
The Race Goes On: Despite Floods and Crippled Transportation, NYC Marathon Will Proceed as Planned
Much of New York City is submerged in water and out of electricity, but the city is still planning to host 50,000 runners for the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday.
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“Taliban could run for Afghan president: poll chief”
Every once in awhile you stumble across a headline that you have to read twice, to be sure you weren’t mistaken the first time.
That’s true of this Agence France-Presse hed circulating around the Pentagon Thursday …