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Super Size That? Fast Food Jobs Bad For Recruiting
Be All You Can Be! Recruiting is and has been down across the Service Branches. Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth has blamed negative media coverage for exacerbating its recruiting slump. She mentioned stories about mental health issues some soldiers face and seemingly rampant sexual assaults across the entire military. A memo penned by her […]
Fort Polk officially Fort Johnson
As of yesterday, Fort Polk was officially renamed Fort Johnson, after Sergeant William Henry Johnson. Johnson was an African-American who enlisted into the Army during World War I. He was assigned with a French unit and fought even when he ran out of rounds. He was posthumously awarded both the Purple Heart and the Medal […]
Big Army tells Army aviators that they have to serve another three years
Many Army aviators were making plans for what they thought was going to be the end of the military chapter of their lives. They looked forward to the new chapter in their lives with positive anticipation. However, after the Army reviewed some “technicalities” involving these contracts, they concluded that having aviators serve the additional three […]
Army Aviation Safety Stand Down
A second deadly helo incident killing three has prompted the Army to declare a moratorium on flying. 12 soldiers have perished in two accidents in a month- the first involved two Black Hawk helicopters participating in a night training exercise in Kentucky. The most recent incident occurred when two Apache helicopters collided as they were […]
General Mark Milley stripped of Military Awards?
Something like this happens every time I think I have seen it all when it comes to strange behavior with medals and ribbons and badges… oh my. So there I was, working on an upcoming valor vulture blog of shame when I suddenly noticed something while watching an unrelated video. I could use some help […]
The U.S. is sending up to $400 Million worth of military equipment to Ukraine
The Department of Defense announced that it is sending up to $400 million worth of military equipment to Ukraine. This package includes additional ammunition for systems already sent to Ukraine, armored vehicle launch-bridges, obstacle clearing munitions, etc. This represents the 33rd time that Team Biden leveraged the drawdown authority on Ukraine’s behalf. From the U.S. […]
Unvaccinated? No problem… just ring bell, yell “unclean!”
Back in the olden days, lepers had to warn others that they were unclean, live in lazerene ghettoes, ring bells to warn oncomers – basically let the rest of ‘clean’ society that a nasty, incurable disease was near and to protect themselves. Most normal people don’t worry so much about Covid now – for normal […]
Work begins for removal of Confederate names from DOD assets
The Pentagon ordered subordinate organizations to start working on the removal of names and artifacts associated with the Confederacy. Nine Army installations in the southern states and a couple of Navy ships will be renamed as a part of this order. The associated names must be removed from correspondence and other items related to the […]
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