Former President Bush warns that the Taliban and al-Qaeda can not be allowed to return to power in Afghanistan. These remarks came during a speech Delhi, India. I don’t think that the former president made these remarks as any kind of veiled criticism of the Obama administrations policies on Afghanistan but he seems to be [...]
There have been a total of 14 Americans killed in recent helicopter crashes in Afghanistan recently with 3 crashes in the same day. Information is skecthy, but in the first crash a total of 10 americans were killed and 26 Americans and Afghans were wounded. The irony of this situation is they were returning from [...]
Our Coast Guard is still standing tall. We haven’t posted anything about them lately but that dosen’t mean that they are not on the job. The USS Anzio (GC 68) confiscated 4 tons of hashish from a drug boat in the Gulf of Aden on the 15th of October this year. The Anzio was operating as [...]
During a recently US led UN investigation of the Afghan presidential election results incumbent president Hamid Karzai lost almost 1 million votes which were deemed fraudulent. The election results were readjusted which now warrants a runoff. His top contender Abdullah Abdullah lost 201,000 votes. President Karzai’s percent of the popular vote dropped from 54 to 48. Mr Abdullah has [...]
You may wonder where the term government service rings originated. The story behind that concept is this; We have offered military rings for years and we have a boatload of designs that we use to help you to design them. There are several special designs that deal exclusively with government service. There are also a [...]
The US government recently finished evaluating and wargaming its plans for troop deployments in Afghanistan. This seems to be a part of the reassessment of the war that president Obama ordered before he commits more troops to the region. It seems that both strategies were reviewed step by step against what we know to see [...]
The people who were killed in this bombing were mostly women and children. The area where the attack took place was specifically targeted because it contained women and children. Obviously the intent is to destroy the will of the Pakistani people to press on with the current offensive against insurgents. The attack took place in [...]
The Pakistani Army is fighting hard to mop up al-Qaeda and Taliban strongholds along the Afghan border. I did a post not very long ago at the start of this offensive where I questioned the resolve of the Pakistanis and their will to drive these combatants out of the border region. The combatants have used [...]
The purpose of a modular pistol would be for diversity and convenience. A modular pistol would allow the user to swap out parts to meet situational requirements. At the same time it would give the Army one single weapon which would have many applications. A tanker might not need the same type of pistol as [...]
The cipher machine is used to encrypt or decrypt messages which need to be kept secret from prying eyes. The machine that you see here is the famed enigma machine which the Germans used during WWII. We were not able to decipher the messages that were encrypted with the enigma but we were fortunate enough to [...]
Rings For All Service Branches
