BattlelandProcurement
One of Battleland’s crew of ace accountants flipped Monday’s list of Pentagon contract announcements our way, and pointed out this drone upgrade program (you can click on it to enlarge):
Then he tossed us Friday’s list, and pointed to this one:
Just a simple error, the Air Force said Tuesday.
“This contract was …
BattlelandVeterans
Las Vegas — About 2.5 million troops have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s a lot of people who have seen war up close and personal. It can affect some of them adversely when they come back home. That’s why …
BattlelandMilitary
BattlelandAfghanistan
One of the three Marine special operations personnel killed in Helmand Province by an Afghan police commander on August 9th was a friend of a close friend of mine.
“I don’t even know what to think about this,” was his gut …
BattlelandAfghanistan
Amid “green-on-blue” attacks, it’s plain to see from this video from the Pakistan-bordering Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan that U.S. Army troops don’t have the blues (sure looks like friendly Afghan troops popping up at about 1:45 into the video).
Check out this just-posted cover of Call Me Maybe (as sung by Carly Rae Jepsen), …
The “forcible rape” canard has been around for a while. The problem is in trying to police the kind of trauma that merits the right to an abortion
To win re-election, Barack Obama won’t be able to rely on the fundraising edge he rode four years ago. The incumbent president was outraised in July by Mitt Romney, the third consecutive month the challenger has held the advantage.
While an Arkansas medical examiner’s report supports the accounts of officers who say Chavis Carter committed suicide, Carter’s mother says she still doesn’t believe it.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
BattlelandMilitary Justice
A trio of detailed reports on sad, and sordid, military misfortunes have surfaced in recent days. They make for great time-wasters at work. But here are the cases summed up in a nutshell:
— Regarding the crash of an Air Force …
BattlelandAfghanistan
Army General Martin Dempsey’s C-17’s fuselage got pockmarked by shrapnel from some overnight shelling while it was parked outside on the tarmac at Afghanistan’s Bagram air base north of Kabul. A couple of airmen were …
