Wired (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this year, the Defense Department quietly gave a U.S. company a contract to provide 22 new Russian-made Mi-17 troop transport helicopters to the Iraqi military in a deal worth an eye-brow raising $325 million, DANGER ROOM learns.
The Thunder Run (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sgt. Mike Stokely died Aug. 16, 2005, in Iraq. He was one of those extraordinary young men who have a tremendous impact on so many people even though his time among us was cut short. To honor his memory, Stokely's family has organized the Mike Stokely Foundation for the purpose of helping children and others who might not otherwise be able to afford it gain access to good books and the skills needed...
Switched (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Summer Fun We're not quite sure how the pitch session went with this one, but it looks like the US Army was so impressed by toymaker Lund and Company's Hydrogen Fuel Rocket that it decided to recruit the company to build a decidedly more lethal version of it. The new system, dubbed the Variable Velocity Weapon System, will apparently be able to be switched between lethal and non-lethal...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
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[SecurityRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this year, the Defense Department quietly gave a U.S. company a contract to provide 22 new Russian-made Mi-17 troop transport helicopters to the Iraqi military in a deal worth an eye-brow...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
Toy makers have often made weapons into toys, but what about the other way around? Wired points out that a maker of a toy rocket has been hired by the US Army to create a variable speed gun using the same basic technology used in the toy. The weapon would allow soldiers to use the same gun to fire both lethal and non-lethal rounds. Nonlethal weapons are a big business these days, but it still seems...
Driive (Free subscription) | yesterday
A US Army engineer accused 10 years ago of spying for Israel was ... Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 22 minutes ago The next day, he says, he found his computer gone and his name erased from the e-mail system at the Tank Automotive and Armaments Command, the military ...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
SEALY, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems has been awarded two U.S. Army contracts totalling $71 million for armored cabs and armor protection for Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV).
Ynet News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi meets with chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of series of security discussions in America. Admiral Michael Mullen surprises his Israeli counterpart by honoring him with US military's highest award
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Source: [b]Pittsburgh Post-Gazette[/b] A federal court says the U.S. Army is not liable for more than $1 million in medical bills for Michael Lahoff, who was left a quadriplegic after being robbed and shot by a young Army recruit in Downtown Pittsburgh. Three judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Cou...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Caleb Campbell said he was upset when the Army told him he wouldn’t be able to play for the Detroit Lions this season.
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Six soldiers of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit are heading to Beijing for Olympic Summer Games. O n the Home Front: FORT BENNING, Ga., July 24, 2008 -- Six soldiers of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit are living out their wildest dreams. Maj. Michael E. Anti, Sgt. 1st Class Jason A. Parker, Sgt. 1st Class Daryl L. Szarenski, Spc. Walton Glenn Eller III, Spc. Jeffrey G. Holguin and Pfc. Vincent C. Hancock...
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
In May of 2002, the Army unveiled its latest recruitment tool, the America's Army video game, free to download online or pick up at a recruiting station and now available for purchase on the Xbox, PlayStation, cell phones and Gameboy game consoles. Thundering helicopter sound effects drew the curious to the Army's interactive display at the year's E3 gaming conventio, where a giant video screen flashed...
Busted Coverage (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
U.S. Army gets free, feel good, advertising at the NFL Draft. [Credit] How much would it have cost the U.S. Army to advertise itself to the NFL viewing public at the Draft? How much would the U.S. Army have paid to get positive articles into newspapers sports sections across this country? Shame on the U.S. Army for pulling [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A container that was leaking the deadly nerve gas sarin at a Kentucky military depot has been sealed, the U.S. Army said Friday.The container was within a storage igloo at Blue Grass Army Depot that is monitored every day to ensure that its seals are effective, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The leak was discovered July 11.Employees found that only vapor had leaked and no liquid had escaped...
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raimondo | 11/16/2007
Print | Close this window Bangladesh cyclone toll tops 500 Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:57am EST By Anis Ahmed DHAKA (Reuters) - A severe cyclone has killed more than 500 people in Bangladesh and left thousands injured or missing, triggering an international relief effort on Friday to help the army-backed interim government cope with the disaster. Local officials and Red Crescent workers said 508 deaths have
raimondo | 11/16/2007
Politics Pakistan: Bhutto released from house arrest Islamabad, 16 Nov. (AKI) - Former Pakistani prime minister and leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Benazir Bhutto has been released from house arrest on Friday just hours before a new caretaker prime minister was sworn in to act as head of an interim government until general elections next year. Local police officials told the
jmax92 | 11/14/2007
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday he expects to step down as army chief by the end of November and begin a new presidential term as a civilian, warning that Pakistan risked chaos if he gave into opposition demands to resign. In an interview with The Associated Press, he accused former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , currently under house arrest, of fueling political
