National Guard
Guardsmen charged in contract bribery case
Stephen sends us links to the Justice Department announcement that four high ranking military officers of the National Guard have been indicted for their participation in a bribery scheme designed to steer government contracts to their company, MPSC; Edwin Stuart Livingston III, 67, of The Villages, Florida; Ronald Joseph Tipa, 68, of Sunny Isles Beach, […]
National Guard data breach
National Guard.mil announces that Guard officials have lost control of your PII, in case the Chinese missed you at the OPM; “All current and former Army National Guard members since 2004 could be affected by this breach because files containing personal information was inadvertently transferred to a non-DoD-accredited data center by a contract employee,” said […]
Caught in the madness
A couple of stories came out of the madness in Baltimore this week; Bubblehead Ray sends us a link to the story of Midshipmen from the Naval Academy who were in Baltimore for a ball game. Protests broke near the Subway sandwich shop where they were eating on Saturday. When a chair smashed through the […]
Maryland National Guard in Baltimore
Chief Tango sends us a link from the Washington Post which reports that about 2000 Maryland Army National Guard troops will be in Baltimore Thursday to “protect the lives and property of law-abiding citizens of our state” much to the chagrin of folks like Brooke Baldwin; “We are working in direct support of the Maryland […]
South Dakota redefines “veteran”
According to our friends at Weaselzippers, in a link sent by MustangCryppie, the State of South Dakota has redefined the term “veteran” to include reservists and National Guardsmen. Overwhelmingly supported in the Legislature during the recently concluded 2015 session, House Bill 1179, signed into law by the Republican governor on March 13, changed the status […]
Discipline for Utah Guardsmen in bikini video
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the “risque” video shot on a Utah military military base. Today from the Stars & Stripes we hear that four Guardsmen are being disciplined for their participation; Guard Lt. Col. Steven Fairbourn said Saturday that a 19th Special Forces non-commissioned officer who inappropriately allowed the video to […]
Utah Guard probes risque video
Apparently, some scantily-clad women filmed a video to promote a calender or something and they were riding in military vehicles and firing weapons and the Utah National Guard think that might be their equipment in the video. Similarly, the Utah Department of Public Safety is probing themselves silly, too, because two officers appeared in uniform […]
Pentagon: Troops in Africa, families at home will be Ebola-safe
From Stars & Stripes comes the news that the Pentagon doesn’t want you to worry that US troops fighting Ebola in Africa will contract or bring back the disease to their families; Troops returning from Ebola-stricken zones in Africa will be scrutinized twice — once by commanders and once by medical personnel — and those […]
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