« A Nation Of Cowards: You Can Be Eric Holder On Election Day | Main | Unprecedented? Supreme Court's Favorability Up To Highest Level in 2 1/2 Years » April 09, 2012 It's "Game On" At Obama's Chicago Campaign HQ, If the Game You're Playing is "Whites-Only Dungeons & Dragons" John Der...
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- "I started to get really depressed and lacked the desire to do anything but sit around and play online to 'escape' the real world," he said. "I was having dreams of planes crashing, the smell of burnt flesh and rotting bodies. I still tried to push t...
Corporal Jack Leslie Stanley was a Section Commander who deployed to Afghanistan with C (Coriano) Company, Combined Force Lashkar Gah (The Queen's Royal Hussars Battle Group) in October 2011. He operated out of Patrol Base Attal situated on Route 601, the main transit route between La...
Navy hopes increased funding keeps its ships in shape longer Navy officials say qualitative problems plaguing ship maintenance have been addressed, but analysts are split over whether the funding that maintenance is receiving is enough to keep the service dominant in hot spots like th...
The No. 5 recipient of My Career Advancement Account funds WASHINGTON – A California school that specializes in dog-obedience training is the No. 5 recipient of U.S. government funds set aside to help military spouses advance their careers. Yet it is not accredited or subject to feder...
“The B-52 has been a wonderful flying box,” he said. “It’s persevered all these years because it’s been able to adapt and still continues to fly. It started out as a high-level flying platform during the Cold War. Then as air defenses got better it became a low-level penetrator, and m...
Experience MARINES magazine on the iPad or any Android tablet and stay on top of everything that makes the U.S. Marines the few and the proud. This official U.S. Marine Corps app will let you download each quarter’s digital issue for FREE . Each digital issue includes the print editio...
Col. Roger Carey, division chief, Intensive Management Office, of CECOM's Logistics and Readiness Center, and his brother Col. Phillip, an Army Reserve Officer assigned to the 352nd Civil Affairs Command, Fort Meade, Md., retired from the Army in a ceremony hosted by Maj. Gen. Robert ...
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Fittingly, on Tuesday a Talon robot cut the ribbon on the new Robotic Systems Joint Project Office Robotic University at Fort Leonard Wood. "The use of robotics is by no means new to the Army. Explosive ordnance units, engineers, and others, have used robots ...
The Department of Defense is exhibiting the classic symptoms of a “resource advantaged” corporation that has passed its prime, as I will describe in slightly more detail below. This is a common problem in the business world and, while we cannot run the military entirely like a busines...
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army Cpl. Patrick R. Glennon of Rochester, N.Y....
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed the newly appointed leader for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan's forces in Afghanistan during a raid in the northwest several days ago. The International Security Assistance Force confirmed that it killed Osmani ...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC) kicked off Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) with training at Sharkey Theater on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), April 6. April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the Depart...
“He Taught Us All A Lesson.” Occupational therapy (OT) is a discipline that aims to promote health by enabling people to perform meaningful and purposeful activities. As the largest health care system in the nation, VA is the single largest employer of occupational therapists. Accordi...
Mrs. Obama: Nation Must ‘Step up Forever’ for Military Families By Lisa Daniel American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 9, 2012 As First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden mark the first anniversary of their “Joining Forces” campaign this week, the two say they will conti...
120408-N-FH966-033 ARABIAN SEA (April 8, 2012) Choir members aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) sing during an Easter sunrise service in the ship's hangar bay. Makin Island and embarked Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU) are depl...
The third place winner in last year's Military Photographer of the Year, in the "Illustrative Photography" category. Former Senior Airman Brian Kolfage, a Security Forces Airman, holds his wife, Ashley on his lap as they look out over the water on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawai...
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/04/navy-mustin-commodore-war-of-1812-040912/ Sailor finds War of 1812 ancestor’s grave By Jacqueline Klimas - Staff writer Posted : Monday Apr 9, 2012 7:15:49 EDT Lt. j.g. Lloyd Mustin is excited to celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, but ...
LONDON and TOKYO — Just four months after Japan announced a ground-breaking relaxation of restrictions on the development of defense equipment with foreign partners, Tokyo is taking its first steps toward a deal with the British government. Japan is expected to sign a memorandum of un...
120405-N-JN664-293 ARABIAN SEA (April 5, 2012) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Arabian Sea. Abraham Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation effort...
Here you have it. This photo shows the last MRAP to be shipped home after serving in the Iraq war. This particular MRAP is a Caiman PLus model and it drove out of Iraq on Dec. 18, 2011 as the last U.S. troops were leaving the country. She’s now en route back to the states after being ...
President Obama and I are personally committed to ending homelessness among Veterans within the next five years. I learned long ago that there are never any absolutes in life, and a goal of zero homeless Veterans sure sounds like an absolute. But unless we set ambitious targets for ou...
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2012/04/marine-afghan-logistics-challenge-040912/ Corps faces logistics challenge in Afghanistan By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer Posted : Monday Apr 9, 2012 8:02:46 EDT CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — With the end of combat in Afghanistan looming and the...
CAMP ZAMA, Japan (April 9, 2012) -- Students at Arnn Elementary School raised money for children suffering from heart illnesses and also promoted the benefits of healthy living during a "Jump Rope for Heart" event at their school, April 3 and 5, here. Jump Rope for Heart is a nationwi...
"At one time, James Nathaniel Richards’ three brothers and father were deployed at the same time. As a son and the fifth of six kids, James has seen a lot of the military life. To share his wisdom about being a military brat, he started a blog. James said he started the blog while his...
...The news stories about the event are disturbing. Some stories reported that they were acting like a bunch of battlefield tourists, strolling in the park and taking pictures. Some depicted the soldiers as having opened fire indiscriminately in the aftermath of the attack, killing ch...
It is possible to imagine all kinds of changes in government secrecy policy that would make the secrecy system smaller, more efficient, more susceptible to error correction, and more attuned to shifting security requirements. Such changes might include, for example, self-cancelling cl...
“The B-52 has been a wonderful flying box,” he said. “It’s persevered all these years because it’s been able to adapt and still continues to fly. It started out as a high-level flying platform during the Cold War. Then as air defenses got better it became a low-level penetrator, and m...
Enlisted Officer Active Duty Army Reserve Open to Women Entry Level Overview The interpreter/translator is primarily responsible for interpreting and preparing translations between English and a foreign language. Job Duties Prepare nontechnical translations into the target language an...
