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Politicians and warriors
Back in June, we talked about Sergeant First Class Earl D. Plumlee’s Medal of Honor nomination which made it easily through the military side of the Pentagon, but was shot down once the civilian politicians on the other side of the Puzzle Palace got their grubby paws on the paperwork. The civvies decided that a […]
Got Anthrax?
David sends us a link to Military.com which reports that the feckless boobs at the Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah sent samples of live anthrax to 194 labs in all 50 states (and the ancillary protectorates and the District of Columbia); The number of countries that received live anthrax went up from seven to […]
Aaron Belkin, Ph.D: Transgender medical costs are negligible for DoD
There’s a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine written by Aaron Belkin, Ph.D. entitled Caring for Our Transgender Troops — The Negligible Cost of Transition-Related Care to convince Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to lift the ban on transgender military personnel. Doctor Belkin, Ph.D says that the military can easily afford to allow transgender […]
Russian hackers penetrate Pentagon email accounts
NBC News reports that the pentagon has admitted that Russian hackers have collected information from unclassified email accounts of the approximately 4,000 folks involved in working for the Joint Chiefs; Sources tell NBC News that it appears the cyberattack relied on some kind of automated system that rapidly gathered massive amounts of data and within […]
DoD Transgender Policy Working Group
Rusty Shackelford sends us a copy of the latest memo from the Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, which announces the “working group” that will be noodling over accepting transgendered folks into the military. Of course, we know that translates into a warning order for the troops that it will happen. He’s suspended booting people from […]
Carter to allow more armed troops
Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that Ashton Carter, the Secretary of Defense, will authorize more troops to be armed in the wake of the attack last week on a recruiting station and a Reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee; The decision was outlined in a two-page memo released at […]
This guarding recruiting offices won’t end well
While I applaud the spirit behind these folks lining up to protect recruiting offices from terrorist attacks, it’s poor substitute for trained personnel, you know, like the recruiters themselves. But this negligent discharge happened in Lancaster, Ohio, according to TV10. Lancaster Police tell 10TV 28-year-old Christopher Reed fired an AR-15 rifle while attempting to clear […]
Pentagon is lifting the tranny ban
No one should be surprised that the Pentagon has decided to lift the ban against transgendered service members according to the Associated Press; Carter is creating a working group to do a six-month study on the impact of lifting the ban. Carter says the group will begin with the presumption that transgender people should be […]
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