A former Air Force general violated rules and regulations when he gave
a Pennsylvania military contractor preferential treatment on a $50
million bid to promote the Thunderbirds Air Show, a Department of Defense investigation has found.
It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie.
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that’s right, “EATR” — “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,” reads the company’s Web site....
The Department of
Defense has compelled a private employer to fire a U.S. Army Reserve
major from his civilian job after he had his military deployment orders
revoked for arguing he should not be required to serve under a
president who has not proven his eligibility for office.
A Maryland company under contract with the Pentagon is developing a
robot that can burn organic material and use collected debris as fuel —
including, but not limited to, things like sticks, grass, debris — and
dead bodies.
Hear the latest exclusive radio interview with Dr.Orly Taitz on her recent victory which occurred on July 14, 2009. Brought to you by Freedom Fighter Radio.net. This was done at 12:15 am est. July 15, 2009
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go.His reason?Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because. This will be heard in a Federal court this Thursday in Columbus Georgia.
That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone.
The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67.The academy said Monday that a total of 121 incoming freshmen with
flu-like symptoms are being kept in dorms, away from other cadets.
This confidential US
Special Forces (7th, US Southern Command), briefing dated 17 May 2009
was created for Florida Congressman Miller.
Although unclassified, it specifies a For Official Use Only (FOUO) distribution restriction.On page 7 of the document, it is proudly proclaimed that the 7h Special Forces Group has conducted missions in every Latin American country.
This document presents a sealed complaint against military contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop
Grumman under the False Claims Act. According to the complaint, the companies fraudulently cut corners
in the construction of a number of Coast Guard boats, leaving them
unfit for operations.
The project, known as the “Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams”
program, is an effort aimed at working on the core technologies behind
a tiny particle accelerator, capable of firing subatomic particles at
incredible speeds. It’s part of a larger Darpa plan to reduce all sorts of devices to microchip-scale
Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that US Military Forces are “panicked” over the forced landings ordered by Indian and Nigerian Air Forces of two Ukrainian AN-124 aircraft
Demonstrators who have regularly cut their way through barbed wire guarding the site cried "No arms here" and "We won't be a rear base for the killing of Afghan kids."
Each equipped with $48,000 worth of GPS components, electronic maps,
and wearable computers, troops of the Army's 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry
Division are heading to Afghanistan as part of the resurrected Land
Warrior program. The Army is hoping the revised, eight-pound set of
gear will be more beneficial than when the $500 million program was
canceled in 2006.
As the latest futuristic military program
to be made real, Land Warrior gear will allow troops to identify
comrades and enemies on the battlefield, receive updated objectives,
locate buildings and find the nearest exit--all through a head-mounted
eyepiece.
This is the long-awaited realization of the Army's 15 year plus program to help out troops who were previously buying their own walkie-talkies and GPS units to stay in contact with their team.
The problem is, not everyone finds it helpful.
Troops say the technology is more helpful in urban areas such as
Iraq, where (presum
The long hours. The blistering heat. And, of course, constantly
having to come up with new ways of harassing the Missouri National
Guardsmen training in the area.Such was the case for several members of the headquarters detachment of the 229th Multifunctional Medical Battalion.
Taliban fighters were being imported from Afghanistan into Iraq to
attack civilians and U.S. soldiers, as well as how Muqtada al-Sadr’s
al-Mahdi Army was being allowed to import materials to make IEDs.
A just-amended lawsuit alleges six additional instances of unprovoked attacks on Iraqi civilians by Blackwater contractors.The Blackwater guards also shot the boy’s mother in the back as she bent over trying to shield her 3-month-old daughter, who nevertheless was shot in the face.
U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties
of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic
gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern
Afghanistan.
One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the
first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in
Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001.
One day after U.S. troops officially vacated Iraqi cities, handing
control over security to the Iraqis themselves for the first time since
2003, America’s “other war” has been ramped up significantly.
According to breaking media reports, some 4,000 Marines and 650
Afghan troops are involved in a massive operation, launched early
Thursday morning, to reclaim the Helmand River Valley from Taliban
control.
The BBC News website cites “officers on the ground” who say this is the “largest Marine offensive since Vietnam.”
The Washington Post reports
that U.S. forces descended on Helmand province in helicopters and
armored convoys. The sparsely-populated, arid area lost its government
services after the Taliban evicted government officials and police
officers.
The operation, the Post reports, represents a major tactical change for forces in Afghanistan:
There is no
area in which Republicans have further strayed from our traditions
than in foreign affairs.
Generations
of conservatives followed the great advice of our Founding Fathers
and pursued a restrained foreign policy that rebuffed entangling
alliances and advised America, in the words of John Quincy Adams,
not to "go abroad looking for dragons to slay."
Sen. Robert
Taft, the stalwart of the Old Right, urged America to stay out of
NATO. Dwight Eisenhower was elected on a platform promising to get
us out of the conflict in Korea. Richard Nixon promised to end the
war in Vietnam.
This document characterizes the risk of the currently circulating new H1N1 influenza virus to U.S. forces. It is written primarily for the use of military commanders, medical officers, and operational planners.
The U.S. Army owns
nearly 10 million acres of land across the U.S., and it wants more in
remote southeastern Colorado, which it says is ideal for intense combat
training. The
problem is that much of that prairie is owned by ranchers who have run
cattle across the plains for generations. And they have balked at
turning over their range land to Uncle Sam.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ordered the creation of the military’s first headquarters designed to coordinate Pentagon efforts in the emerging battlefield of cyberspace and computer-network security, officials said. Pentagon officials said Mr. Gates intends to nominate Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, currently director of the National Security Agency, for a fourth star and to take on the top job at the new organization, to be called Cybercom
More than 50 years after a 7,600lb (3,500kg) nuclear bomb was dropped in US waters following a mid-air military collision, the question of whether the missing weapon still poses a threat remains.
In his own mind, retired 87-year-old Colonel Howard Richardson is a hero responsible for one of the most extraordinary displays of aeronautic skill in the history of the US Air Force.
His view carries a lot of weight and he has a large number of supporters – including the Air Force itself which honoured his feat with a Distinguished Flying Cross.
But to others, he is little short of a villain: the man who 50 years ago dropped a nuclear bomb in US waters, a bomb nobody has been able to find and make safe.
The U.S. is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions
escalate between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea's recent
moves to restart its nuclear-weapon program and resume test-firing
long-range missiles.
An inventory of potentially deadly
pathogens at Fort Detrick’s infectious disease laboratory found more
than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said
yesterday,
The Department of Defense is training all of its personnel in its
current Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher
Training Course that political protest is "low-level terrorism."
"NSA is the only place in the U.S. government that has the capabilities
we need for defense of the private networks," said a
senior fellow and cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies. "We need to find a way to use those capabilities
without putting civil liberties at risk."
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