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Whistleblower: Lower Standards For Women In Military

From The Federalist:

The female captain dropped out of physically demanding combat controller course exercises several times, but unlike male trainees with similar difficulties, Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) officials kept extending special concessions to keep her in the program.

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Darpa proposal: Death-from-Above — on Demand

“Darpa would like to cut out all [the] middle men. Instead, the Pentagon’s R&D arm wants to build an air strike network with exactly two nodes: the air controller on the ground, and the robotic, heavily-armed airplane in the sky.

Darpa calls the project Persistent Close Air Support, or PCAS. Think of it as death-from-above — on demand.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/darpa-plots-death-from-above-on-demand/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

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