Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault peo
To help with the problem of blood loss from traumatic wounds, the military has started field-testing a device more Mandalorian than M.A.S.H.: a plasma knife.
For the first time, sophisticated U.S. military surveillance drones capable of carrying missiles have begun patrolling waters off Somalia in hopes of stemming rising piracy.
Three ships have been seized in a week off Africa's lawless eastern coast
The Navy's need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.
Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 4
Weeks after the US pulled the plug on a Poland-based missile defense system, Vice President Biden traveled to Warsaw to assuage angry officials and emerged with an agreement that Poland will get an upgraded element of a missile defense.
I find this very disturbing. A link to this commercial was sent to me I have the video below. If they are Americas Navy I believe they should only be used for the protection of Americans. Why are we expected to be the policeman of the world?
It was chaos during the early morning assault last year on a remote US outpost in Afghanistan and Sgt. Phillips' M4 carbine had quit firing as militant forces surrounded the base. The machine gun he grabbed didn't work either.
The U.S. mission in Afghanistan is in "serious jeopardy" and needs more troops to turn the tide against an increasingly potent Taliban insurgency, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday, putting her at odds with an influential Demo
While most of political Washington has been consumed with the debate over how to make health care more accessible to low-income Americans, the government unexpectedly raised rates by more than 20 percent on the in-patient co-payments that must be pa
Former Darpa director Tony Tether is joining a Washington-area lobbying firm best known for its influence on Capitol Hill. But Tether — who served for more than seven years as the head of the Pentagon’s premiere research arm — says he won’t be doing
During a hearing in U.S. District Court Monday, an attorney for an Army officer fighting deployment to Iraq questioned Barack Obama’s legal right to serve as president, asserting he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii.
Private security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge
Leo Church has been transfer to Ft Lewis, Washington to serve the reminder of his eight month prison sentence for being AWOL while taking care of his family.
U.S. weapons sales jumped nearly 50 percent in 2008 despite the global
economic recession to $37.8 billion [68.4% of global sales] from $25.4 billion the year before.
I expressed the
view that Oathkeepers should be providing real leadership on this issue
to the American people since this weaponized swine flu threat is the
biggest threat confronting our nation today. Its clearly totally in our
faces with a massive media barrage to try to condition us all to take
it.
In
years to come, the secret supertroopers of SOCOM may be able to cause a
cell tower to stop working, a vehicle’s fuel tank to suddenly explode,
or a single person to inexplicably be incinerated - all completely
silently and tracelessly, without anyone knowing they were ever there
and not so much as a spent bullet left behind.
On Sept. 2, 2008, U.S. and Iraqi troops smashed in the doors of Iraqi
journalist Ibrahim Jassam's home, shouting "freeze" and holding back
snarling dogs before they hauled him off into the night in his
underwear.
A year later, neither Jassam and his family nor
global news agency Reuters, which employed him as a freelance TV
cameraman and photographer, have been told exactly why he has been
detained for all this time by U.S. military forces in Iraq.
U.S. officials denied
American troops were violating Philippine laws by engaging in combat
against Muslim militants, saying they were only training Filipino
soldiers and their mission was temporary.
Allegations
that U.S. troops in the southern Philippines are building permanent
structures and joining the fight against al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf
militants have roiled nationalist and left-wing forces opposed to the
American presence.
The No Child Left Behind Act includes a provision that requires high schools to turn over private information on students to military recruiters and allows the Pentagon to create an extensive database on your child. You can opt out! Here's how!!
The inquiry into the relationship
between George Raymond, the director of a technology program at Fort
Belvoir, and Catherine Campbell, a favored contractor, and how it
illustrated core problems in the federal procurement system.
ox News: Tammy Duckworth, an injured veteran who is the assistant secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the manual is still under revision -- as stated in a disclaimer on the official Web site -- and has not officially been "reinstated." She said it was one of many options for injured veterans, calling it "simply a tool." Though Duckworth said the document has not been fully vetted, an official directive from July tells VA health practitioners to refer veterans to the document. Duckworth questioned whether that directive had been authorized at the highest levels. video;
For 42 years, the God and Country Rally in Idaho has started its rally with a military fly over.
The God and Country Rally is a non-denominational rally that supports American soldiers.
For 42 years the Pentagon has carried out the military fly over.
Not any more.
In Barack Obama’s America, the military is no longer allowed to do such things if the group requesting the fly over is Christian oriented.
That’s not an exaggeration.
Let’s roll the tape:
Video;
Pfc. Michael Jackson
Apodaca, 18 who was arrested Monday, is accused of working as a paid
hit man, and assassinating a member of the Juarez Cartel who had become
an informant for U.S. authorities.
As pilotless US drones do battle from the sky in Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Iraq, a top US Army general is urging the military to step
up the deployment of unmanned vehicles on the ground.
"It's
all about saving lives," said Lieutenant General Rick Lynch, the
commander of the III Armored Corps and the holder of a master's degree
in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT).