Ok, so she doesnt look the same. Shes bigger and heavier than she is in the old photos. But Jeep-maker Chrysler will tell you theres just more to love about the vehicle and it is hoping once again to find a place in the Armys heart and motor-vehicle fleet. Under a banner announcing The Icon […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2009
News flash folks The Army has decided to review the suitability and utility of the new ACU camouflage pattern for the fighting in Afghanistan (This is old news to the folk in the SF community They were granted an exemption a year ago to wear the old BDUs in place of the ACU in select […]
From the Passdown at Military.com: Six months after President Obama dispatched a new Afghanistan war commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, to win the “just” battle there, the White House seems indecisive about giving the general all the tools he needs to fight it. For weeks, the administration has been urging caution after McChrystal’s leaked assessment called […]
On October 1st 2009 U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) became a reality. With high expectations and very little fanfare the efforts led by U.S. Strategic Command began to protect the nation from cyber assault. There are reports that the cyber command initiation efforts to date required the reorganization of 40,000 job positions. An additional 1,000 new […]
Ward and I had an interesting discussion with an engineer with the Joint IED Defeat Organization at this year’s Modern Day Marine expo in Quantico. She gave us a good rundown of the differences between the kinds of threats found in Afghanistan and those we’ve had to deal with in Iraq. She described the situation […]
