RSSPentagon

Pentagon to rotate some media organizations out of Pentagon office spaces

| February 4, 2025 | 30 Comments
Pentagon to rotate some media organizations out of Pentagon office spaces

The Trump administration broke trend regarding media journalists working from office positions within the Pentagon. The New York Times, National Public Radio, NBC news, and Politico were told to vacate their spaces no later than February 14, 2025. The New York Post, One American News Network, Breitbart, and HuffPost News will take over these slots. […]

Continue Reading

Iron Dome over the United States

| January 31, 2025 | 36 Comments
Iron Dome over the United States

President Donald Trump makes good on one of the promises he made during his campaign. Trump signed an executive order calling for the establishment of an “iron dome” over the United States. Trump listed his justifications for this executive order, including the growing threats involving new technologies and novel missile strategies. Trump also addressed Ronald […]

Continue Reading

Pete Hegseth pushes to make promotion color blind, based on merit

| January 30, 2025 | 19 Comments
Pete Hegseth pushes to make promotion color blind, based on merit

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the Department of Defense’s core mission is to win wars. This needs a military that’s a lethal fighting force that promotes and assigns based on merit. Thus, individual initiative, excellence, etc., must be rewarded.  Hegseth intends to stand up a task force that will be focused on merit based, […]

Continue Reading

Pete Hegseth confirmed as Secretary of Defense

| January 25, 2025 | 123 Comments
Pete Hegseth confirmed as Secretary of Defense

Vice President JD Vance casted the tie breaking vote that confirmed Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. All Democrats voted against Hegseth, as did Republican senators Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), and Mitch McConnell (Kentucky).  Murkowski felt that Hegseth’s comments on women in the military as well as the allegations against him were unbecoming […]

Continue Reading

Trump: DO Something! Part 1

| December 2, 2024 | 32 Comments
Trump: DO Something! Part 1

Love all the politicians who run for office like they are the best buds of everyone who has ever served. Veterans, privates, officers, Coasties, no matter: they love ’em all, until two nanoseconds after the winner is called. Then the entire military becomes the drunk fat chick they boinked on a dateless Friday after ‘way […]

Continue Reading

Trump: DO Something Part 2

| December 2, 2024 | 26 Comments
Trump: DO Something  Part 2

Did we mention quarters? I was going to but chow halls ran a bit long and I like to keep the articles somewhat succinct. Let’s talk about that “someplace to live” part. We are seeing far too many articles about substandard housing. Poor maintenance, mold, broken unrepaired windows, broken A/C or heating – the list […]

Continue Reading

Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On

| January 8, 2024 | 54 Comments
Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On

Diversity! West Point and the Naval Academy can keep affirmative action — for now By Irene Loewenson Two federal judges recently rejected legal attempts to halt affirmative action in the military’s service academies, at least for now. The anti-affirmative-action group Students for Fair Admissions filed lawsuits this fall seeking to end the use of race […]

Continue Reading

Where are the NCOs? Where are the LEADERS?

| September 22, 2023 | 82 Comments
Where are the NCOs? Where are the LEADERS?

The Government Accounting Ofice (GAO) went to 12 military posts to look at base housing. Pests such as bedbugs and roaches were a common issue at six of the bases that the GAO visited. Several bases had severe issues with security in the buildings, to the point that service members said that they were unable […]

Continue Reading