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Archive for category News
Does leaving your magazines loaded hurt them?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Magazines, Maintenance, News, Training, Warrior Tools on 12/Jun/2011 16:38
“The accepted wisdom seems to be that leaving magazines loaded does not hurt the magazine spring. The loss of stiffness comes from cycling the magazine springs. This has always made sense and seemed to agree with most of my engineering classes. Creep is a material property that you see most often in plastics and with modern heat treating should be pretty much none existent in good spring steels. Well this small experiment seems to point to the possibility of other conclusions:”
New Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
From: MarineCorpsTimes
BY DAN LAMOTHE – STAFF WRITER | POSTED : FRIDAY JUN 10, 2011 5:33:47 EDT
MARINE BARRACKS WASHINGTON – With the passing of a sword, Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent retired Thursday night and stepped aside after a distinguished career of more than 35 years.
Kent, the 16th sergeant major of the Marine Corps, was replaced by Sgt. Maj. Mike Barrett in a relief and appointment ceremony attended by some of the service’s highest ranking officers and enlisted personnel. He served as the Corps’ top enlisted adviser beginning April 25, 2007, and filled the position during a tumultuous period in which combat in Iraq transitioned to operations in Afghanistan, where more than 20,000 Marines are deployed.
Citi Credit Card Information Stolen
Posted by Brian in Comms, News, Threat Watch on 10/Jun/2011 13:41
Information on 200,000 Citi Credit Card Customers was stolen in an attack on their network.
Citi said no birth dates, Social Security numbers or card security codes were accessed by the hackers last month. They got away with account numbers and e-mail addresses. The financial institution said it would provide new cards to affected customers.
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U.S. Army Orders Virtual Reality Training for Soldiers
Posted by Gary in News, Training, Training Tools, Warriors on 10/Jun/2011 08:23
From: InnovationNewsDaily
Instead of using wood and metal models, the soldier of the future will train in a virtual reality world that essentially mixes “Call of Duty” with “Star Trek’s” holodeck. Such immersion offers more flexibility compared to live training exercises based on physical mock-ups that can’t replicate the danger of live bullets or artillery explosions, said John Foster, assistant project manager for the U.S. Army’s Close Combat Tactical Trainer. It also delivers a more realistic training experience compared with the Army’s existing game simulations, where soldiers use a keyboard and a mouse on a computer.
A CryENGINE screen capture of Dismounted Soldier's virtual reality world. Credit: RealTime Immersive, Inc.
“‘Dismounted Soldier’ is going to put the soldier in a virtual environment with a replica of his weapon in his hands, so that he can go through all the same motions as in real life,” Foster told InnovationNewsDaily.
U.S. Intensifying Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:31
WASHINGTON — “The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.
The acceleration of the American campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the government in Sana, a United States ally, struggling to cling to power.
Yemeni troops that had been battling militants linked to Al Qaeda in the south have been pulled back to the capital, and American officials see the strikes as one of the few options to keep the militants from consolidating power.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Homeless Veterans Sue Over Neglected Campus
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 9/Jun/2011 20:28
LOS ANGELES — “It is a 387-acre campus of green fields and low-lying buildings in a prosperous neighborhood, donated to the federal government more than 100 years ago for use as a Pacific Coast home for wounded veterans.
But over the last 20 years, as Los Angeles has become inundated with homeless veterans, advocates for the homeless say the campus has become a symbol of a system gone wrong: as veterans sleep on the streets, many of its buildings lie abandoned and one-third of the land has been leased for commercial use.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/us/09veterans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The Invisible Enemy
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Medic, News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:23
“Behind the scenes, the spread of a pathogen that targets wounded GIs has triggered broad reforms in both combat medical care and the Pentagon’s networks for tracking bacterial threats within the ranks.
Interviews with current and former military physicians, recent articles in medical journals, and internal reports reveal that the Department of Defense has been waging a secret war within the larger mission in Iraq and Afghanistan – a war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.”
NDM-1 in a U.S. Military Hospital in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Medic, News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:18
By Maryn McKenna
… Deep in the back of the weekly bulletin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is a note that NDM-1, the “Indian supergene,†has been isolated from a patient in a U.S. military field hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan.
It’s been a few months since NDM-1 was in the news, so let’s recap. The acronym (for “New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1″) indicates an enzyme that allows common gut bacteria to denature almost all the drugs that can be used against them, leaving two or three that are inefficient or toxic.
… You don’t even have to imagine what comes next, because we already know: Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii has been spreading through the military hospital system for almost a decade, with grave consequences for injured military personnel.
Acintobacter slipped by the military medical system before they noticed, and became established in military hospitals before infection-control efforts were prepared to counter it.
As U.S. pullout nears, Taliban attacks undermine confidence
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:14
By HASHIM SHUKOOR
McClatchy Newspapers
KABUL, Afghanistan — A 6-week-old Taliban offensive that has struck some of the most peaceful parts of Afghanistan and killed police commanders and senior officials is undermining confidence in the Afghan army and police just as the Obama administration considers how quickly it should begin drawing down U.S. forces here.
The campaign, whose targets have included high-level meetings of government officials and supposedly secure facilities in Kabul, including the Defense Ministry, has left many Afghans uncertain of the competency of the security forces and their loyalty.
Particularly unsettling for many was the attack April 18 in which a Taliban sympathizer wearing a military uniform entered the heavily defended Defense Ministry building and opened fire.”
“A suicide attacker getting into the Defense Ministry shows the government’s weakness,” said Abdul Samad, a 25-year-old mechanic, when he was asked about his sense of Afghanistan’s security situation. Such an attack “makes people lose trust in the security forces.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/09/2259271/as-us-pullout-nears-taliban-bombs.html#ixzz1Opb045Do
Pakistani army says it doesn’t want U.S. aid
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:09
ISLAMABAD — “Pakistan’s army lashed out Thursday at its critics at home as well as in the United States in an angry statement that underscored just how deep a crisis the country’s armed forces are suffering.
The statement rejected all American financial aid for the military, saying the money should go instead to the government to be spent on “the common man.” It warned that it intended to “put an end” to domestic criticism of its actions.
It also tried to distance the military from the United States, saying that it had stopped U.S. training of the country’s border guards and ordered the U.S. to “drastically” reduce the number of its troops in Pakistan.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/09/2259350/angry-pakistani-army-says-it-doesnt.html#ixzz1OpaSAKb6
Soviet Dolphin Paratroopers?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 9/Jun/2011 20:04
A MK 7 dolphin prepares to mark a buried underwater mine (Photo credit: US Navy)
“…at the height of the Soviet program, their dolphins were also trained to find and mark enemy divers; except their marker contained a CO2 needle that could be remotely triggered, killing the diver if and when the Soviets wanted to. They also employed dolphins as kamikaze torpedos with remotely triggered explosives, and told Cartlidge that as many as 2,000 dolphins had been killed testing and developing this system.
But the most bizarre Soviet marine mammal system was a dolphin paratrooper. A dolphin wore a harness attached to a parachute, and could be dropped from heights up to 3,000 meters. How the dolphin was meant to get out of the harness once in the water, or what its task would be, was not reported.”
Department of Education SWAT Raid
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 8/Jun/2011 13:50
This news story comes from The Daily Mail Online, a British publication:
Mr Wright was later told by Stockton police that the order to send in the SWAT team came from The U.S. Department of Education who were looking for his estranged wife to collect defaulted loan payments.
He says he was then detained for six hours while officers looked for his wife – who no longer lives at the house.
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