BattlelandProcurement
Once again, there’s something – no one will say just what – that the Air Force’s $15 million Massive Ordnance Penetrator can’t do, or can’t do well enough. That’s the 15-ton, Boeing-built bomb the U.S. now has on hand to use against deeply-buried bunkers in places like Iran.
On Thursday, the Air Force awarded this …
“We were initially briefed there would be 10 to 15 possible insurgents in the area…And what we found out after the fact -- once we got back -- after analyzing the intelligence, that there was over a hundred that had moved into the area during the fight.”
BattlelandArmy
The Army has just surveyed more than 40,000 of its people about how it’s faring, and gives itself an A, or something pretty close to it.
The Army Profession (AP) Campaign Annual Report (where do they come up with such titles?) spells out how the service has been able to come through more than a decade of war pretty much intact. There …
“Death Star Dinosaur Aliens Could Rule Galaxy”
“They'll go dead about the time that we wake up.”
BattlelandMilitary Personnel
A career website has just issued a ranking of 200 jobs from best to worst. They range from software engineer (#1, the best) to lumberjack (#200, the worst). Their placement is purportedly based on each job’s environment, physical demands, income, stress and future prospects (reporter: #196. That high?). Here are the three …
BattlelandProcurement
That’s a nautical term, but it can apply to the skies as well. The Pentagon’s new aviation-spending plan shows that the number of warplanes in its inventory will be “relatively constant” from now until 2022. It’s going to cost us $770 billion over the coming decade to maintain a force of this size, which includes a 50% …
BattlelandMilitary Training
After 12 years without a crash of its cherished V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, the Marines lost one Wednesday in Morocco. The accident killed two of the four Marines aboard during a training exercise, and the other two were severely …
“There's about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party.”
BattlelandMilitary History
TOKYO – It’s not clear if anyone appreciates the irony, but Japan wants to help pay for a new U.S. military base on Tinian island, a former Imperial Army stronghold from which the atomic bombings of Japan were launched in …
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
The Los Angeles Times’ story last weekend on “our medicated military” reactivated the long-standing debate about Soldiers and other Service members being prescribed anti-depressants and other psychiatric medications while on …
