The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection. They finally reached their destination and [...]
The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program saw the scramjet aircraft reach Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Air Force said Friday. For those of you who don’t know exactly how fast that is it is 5.1 times the speed of sound. This type of speed is almost unimaginable to me. [...]
Determined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China’s security forces considered a tactic they’d never tried before: calling a drone strike on his remote hideaway deep in the hills of Myanmar. The attack didn’t happen — the man was later captured and brought to China for trial — but the fact [...]
It’s OK to evangelize. But it’s not OK to proselytize. That’s what the Pentagon said Thursday, attempting to clarify its position on religious speech in uniform as controversy swirled up around press reports over possible prosecutions of troops for sharing their faith. Now we are getting into a really sticky area when the government begins [...]
The Coast Guard Cutter by the name of Gallatin and it’s crew seized 2,200 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated value of $27 million recently in the Caribbean. Believe it or not seizures of this size and type are fairly common for our Coast Guard. They don’t get all of the drugs that come here [...]
We always attempt to do a post on memorial day in order to remind you of the job that our military has to accomplish. Remember that as you read this there are troops overseas who are serving in conditions so filthy that you won’t be able to imagine. They are not going to be [...]
The new President of North Korea has been making waves lately with his propaganda and rhetoric. He has certainly caused a stir in the rest of the world but I am concerned that he may be going out too far on thin ice. He has raised the threat of a nuclear exchange with the [...]
Drones have certainly made a statement in Afghanistan in the war on terror and the military is beginning to capitalize on their usefulness. Their use has been expanded throughout the services and with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal and law enforcement agencies as well. The Navy is inaugurating its first squadron with unmanned [...]
The face of our global commitments have changed in the last decade or so and the modern requirements placed on the Navy have been more demanding. The Navy has to be able to deploy just about anywhere in the world at just about any time. There are so many potential and existing hot spots out there that [...]
One of the worst jobs in the world is being an enlisted troop in the US military. This is according to a web site called CareerCast.com. Personally I can’t agree with them more. An enlisted troop is the third worst job overall in America according to them. I would probably give it the dubious distinction [...]
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