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December 2008

From all of us here at Defense Tech, we’d like to wish you all a merry Christmas. – Christian

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While there still is no official announcement, Granite Gear and their partner Montgomery Marketing Inc have announced that they have captured at least some of the SOCOM Pack program. Two packs were out for competition and they have won the Patrol Pack category with their 2400 cubic inch Raid pack and they will begin manufacturing […]

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I just took a closer look at the picture I used for the post on SOF surge in Afghanistan. Am I seeing what I think I’m seeing? Here’s the caption that accompanied the picture on the Army’s own Web site: Detachment in Afghanistan Photo by Sgt. David N. Gunn December 15, 2008 Members of Operational […]

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My boy Gordon Lubold called me and told my his paper, the Christian Science Monitor, finally ran his story on a surge of SF for Afghanistan and the internal debates going on within the community that the current commando force isn’t being used properly, so why send more… My take is that special operations forces […]

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Can we please now say that the “Cut and Run”-ers were dead wrong. That America could be successful in Iraq and that it wasn’t the Sunnis who did it; it was Americans who supported an unpopular “surge” strategy that proved to be the real solution to the security problem… American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON — […]

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