Defense Tech (Free subscription) | yesterday
If the service thought they’d buried the issue of armor testing, they forgot to ask their new Secretary. ArmySec John McHugh announced today he had enlisted the services of the National Research Council to examine the service’s armor testing procedures and compliance protocols in light of a recent GAO report calling into question the Army’s adherence [...]
News Hounds (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Co-authored by Hula “Hoffman ‘Unconcedes’ NY-23” was the headline posted at FoxNation.com last night at 8:05 PM EST. Problem is, that’s old – and inaccurate – news. Republican Doug Hoffman, the choice of teabaggers, Limbaugh and Palin in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Congressman John McHugh (who was appointed Secretary of the Army) un-unconceded...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
An aide to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the committee's Monday briefing on the Fort Hood tragedy is postponed "at the request of the administration" (Reuters). Senate Committee Postpones Fort Hood Hearing At Request of White House -- FOX News The Senate Armed Services Committee postponed its Monday briefing on the deadly Fort Hood massacre...
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
From NBC's Rich GardellaA closed briefing about the Fort Hood shooting incident for staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, originally scheduled for later this afternoon, has been postponed, according to the Committee's Democratic majority staff. A representative of Chairman Levin's office confirmed that the Committee postponed the briefing at the request of the Obama administration....
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Photo of Arlington Cemetery from the 2008 DCist Exposed show by cstein96 The timing of the news is inadvertently tacky. Coming only days after Veterans' Day, U.S. Secretary of the Army John McHugh ordered an investigation into improper burials at Arlington Cemetery following a report by Salon that cemetery workers buried cremated remains in graves already in use. In its investigation, Salon revealed...
Minstrel Boy (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Burial incidents prompt Army probe of Arlington National Cemetery - washingtonpost.com : "The Army ordered an investigation Friday into operations at Arlington National Cemetery after questions about apparently improper burials. Army Secretary John McHugh said in a statement that the service's inspector general will look into what he said was 'lost accountability' of some graves, as well as poor...
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced Friday that he has ordered an investigation into allegations of lost accountability of some graves, poor record keeping and other issues at Arlington National Cemetery.“As the final resting place of our nation’s heroes, any questions about the integrity or accountability of [the cemetery’s] operations should be examined in a matter befitting...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced today that he has ordered an investigation into allegations of lost accountability of some graves, poor record keeping and other issues at Arlington National Cemetery
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Army Secretary John McHugh has ordered a new investigation into problems at Arlington National Cemetery, even as a separate probe ended without an absolute answer to who is buried in a grave marked "Unknown."
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
In the wake of a Salon investigation , the Army Friday announced a broad investigation into “lost accountability” at some graves at Arlington National Cemetery, along with shoddy record keeping and other issues at the cemetery. Army Secretary John McHugh ordered the inquiry after a series of articles in Salon showed the cemetery found an unknown casket in a grave in 2003, covered it up...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2009 -- The following news release made available Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense is the text of a statement announcing a probe into alleged issues at Arlington National Cemetery: Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced today that he has ordered an investigation into allegations of lost accountability of some graves, poor record keeping and other...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., wants the Army to drop its appeal of a federal court decision in September that rejected an environmental study the Army needs to go forward in sending more troops, more often to train at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. Army lawyers filed their appeal Monday of U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch's decision. The judge said the 2007 environmental study was severely flawed...
Gay News Bits (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Recently, the Army Times interviewed Secretary of the Army John McHugh covering a wide range of topics including how repealing the law banning open service of homosexuals might be handled by the Pentagon. Although McHugh stated there is no reason to think major turmoil would ensue if the ban on gays in the military were lifted, [...]
David Limbaugh (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Even as more and more realize oppressive political correctness is damaging our nation and killing our people, we still hold ourselves hostage to it. We can't criticize Obama on his policy agenda without absurd accusations of racism, and now our authorities' first instinct after the mass murder at Fort Hood is to victimize the identified shooter -- Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- rather than to protect our...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The moderate-liberal columnist writes about Democratic reaction to the results of last week's special elections : "Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. Since those are two states that President Barack Obama won last year, vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in next year's elections are feeling as nervous as Glenn Beck at an ACORN...
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