Today we remember the tragic events that occurred back in 1941 at Pearl Harbor. This was the threshold level event that drew the United States into World War II. As we remember the tragedy of that day and the toll it took on the United States, we must remind ourselves to be vigilant and not […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2009
We’re working the Operation Cobra’s Anger story for more inside gouge, but one thing the wires are reporting is that 3/4 and other elements of this morning’s assault on Now Zad involved air assaults using MV-22 Ospreys. As you all know, the birds from VMM-263 just chopped from the Bataan to Camp Bastion in Helmand […]
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. DUBAI, UAE — China, France and Russia are increasingly aggressive in courting customers for their military products, but it is the U.S. that is raking in the big dollars — and increasingly so. What’s more, the U.S.’s improving relationship with India could signal that record […]
Gunner Eby is at it again. A man who holds more knowledge about small arms (and crew served weapons) in the tip of his pinky finger than most “experts” will learn in a lifetime, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jeff Eby had one of his usual “couldn’t care less what people think” conversations with my alma mater, […]
The Army is conducting yet another review of the camouflage pattern of its combat uniforms. This makes it what, the third or fourth such review on the pattern du jour? What I find interesting though, is not so much how much attention is being paid to the debate around the camouflage pattern, and whether or […]
