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Army’s plan for women in combat submitted
Jack sends us a link to Military.com about the Army’s plan to begin integrating women into combat-related jobs from which they were previously forbidden. The language isn’t very reassuring; TRADOC has started a scientific review working with U.S. Army Medical Command, U.S. Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine and Army Research Institute to assist in […]
Hagel says you need more training on sexual harassment – yep that’s the ticket
The Washington Post reports that after ruminating on the subject of sexual harassment for an entire day, Chuck Hagel has arrived at the totally unique conclusion that you need more training. Anyone who didn’t see that coming, raise your hand. Yeah, me, too. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday evening ordered the armed services to […]
10 camouflaged patterns is nine too many
When I left the military in 1994, there was one camouflaged pattern for all of the services – the “woodland” pattern, and we also had a desert uniform for people who were living in the desert. But as the Washington Post reports, the Pentagon has ten different patterns that it’s paying for with tax payer […]
Dempsey on “decimated” al Qaeda
Chief Tango sends us a link to the Daily Caller in which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs tries to explain what the President said about the “decimated” al Qaeda; “My understanding of what the president has said is that the ‘al-Qaida core’ has been decimated,” Dempsey said at a lunch for reporters sponsored by […]
Bagram Batman
I remember the “Energy Rapper” on AFN in the eighties who rapped about how we should save the military money “I’m the energy rapper and I’m here today telling people in the Army what I have to say, turn it off turn it down ’cause it’s comin’ around when the energy’s gone there’ll be none […]
Balancing the budget on the backs of veterans
I was in the room, back in August, 2010 when the president told the American Legion Convention in Minneapolis that he wasn’t going to balance the national budget on the backs of the military and veterans. Well, at that very moment, his Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta was planning exactly that. By that time, retirees […]
Big Army; Beware those religious extremist Catholics
The above picture is supposedly a slide on religious fanaticism in a presentation to Reservists in Pennsylvania. For some reason, Evangelicals and Catholics make the list mixed in with the Muslim Brotherhood, the KKK, the Nation of Islam and Hamas. Yeah, because I can’t count the times that I’ve read about Catholics suicide bombers. It’s […]
Three generals censured for misconduct
The Washington Post reports that three more generals are being punished (I say “punished” in the way that generals are punished and not in the way that regular people get punished) for misconduct. They are; Army Maj. Gen. Ralph O. Baker, the commander of a strategic counterterrorism force on the Horn of Africa; David H. […]
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