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Posts Tagged warriors
Welcome Home Blog – celebrating the return of our armed forces
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 2/Dec/2010 01:10
“Regardless of political stance, no one can deny the joy felt upon seeing your loved ones return home safely — WelcomeHomeBlog.com is a site celebrating that amazing feeling. Visit daily for heartwarming stories, videos and pictures of members of our courageous armed forces returning home to their families and friends.”
Interview: Black Ops Veteran Talks Video Games And The Real World
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 23/Nov/2010 23:25
[Gamasutra’s Leigh Alexander talks to a Black Ops combat veteran about his new book of gunfight tactics, the interest he’s received from gamers — and his thoughts on how games and the real world relate.]
The advertising campaign for Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops shows a bunch of everyday folks toting arms around a gray warscape, firing rocket launchers at helicopters and storming blasted edifices, guns in hand. “There’s a soldier in all of us,” it promises.”
New Etymotic Hearing Protection/Enhancement
Posted by Gary in Accessories, Warrior Tools on 21/Nov/2010 18:16
From: MIT Technology Review
Etymotic’s BlastPLG earplugs are designed to safeguard troops from long-term hearing damage without compromising their “situational awareness.”
… Remember that scene in Black Hawk Down where a soldier literally goes deaf because his buddy is shooting a giant machine gun right next to his head? The movie played it for laughs, but military hearing loss is no joke. According to high-end audio company Etymotic Research, “an alarmingly high percentage of deployed soldiers” sustain permanent hearing loss and tinnitus.
Earplugs are the obvious solution, but you can’t exactly stay frosty on patrol when you’ve got foam jammed in your ears blocking everything out. Etymotic’s EB15 BlastPLG earplugs attempt to square the circle by electronically attentuating sudden blast sounds while letting normal decibel levels through — or even enhancing them.
The $450 price tag makes sense when you consider that the EB15 is a state of the art hearing aid and earplug at the same time.
Warrior Elected to Congress
Lieutenant Colonel Allen West (US Army, Retired) was elected to Congress on Tuesday. He will serve Florida’s 22nd district. Hooah!
From: Allen West for Congress
… Allen West knows that for our children to live their dreams, they need to be safe. He has served in several combat zones: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was battalion commander for the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and in Afghanistan, where he trained Afghan officers to take on the responsibility of securing their own country. In his Army career, Col. West has been honored many times, including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals (one with Valor), and a Valorous Unit Award. He received his valor award as a Captain in Desert Shield/Storm, was the US Army ROTC Instructor of the Year in 1993, and was a Distinguished Honor Graduate III Corps Assault School. He proudly wears the Army Master parachutist badge, Air Assault badge, Navy/Marine Corps parachutist insignia, Italian parachutist wings, and German proficiency badge (Bronze award).
From: CBS4.com
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
After a sleepless and exciting night, Allen West is plotting his next move as the new U.S. Congressman of the 22nd district. He said his priorities remain the same as outlined on the campaign trail.
“That’s the fiscal security and the physical security of the American people,” he said. “So you look at right back here over my shoulder, the Winn-Dixie that has closed down. We’ve got to get our small businesses and corporations back open and up.”
Super Soldier Exoskeleton
Via Wired’s Danger Room: Lockheed Martin has developed an exoskeleton for the troops:
Darpa: Fuse Nerves With Robot Limbs, Make Prosthetics Feel Real
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 27/Oct/2010 17:42
Darpa: Fuse Nerves With Robot Limbs, Make Prosthetics Feel Real | Danger Room | Wired.com.
More veterans are starting businesses
From: Star-Telegram
TARRANT COUNTY — Andrew Brady, armed with a Purple Heart and early Army retirement papers, launched a business in his hometown last year.
His objective was nothing less than audacious — to sell high-dollar, custom-made rifles in a battered and weak economy where even Walmart and Target have sometimes been hurting.
A college graduate and two-time combat veteran before his 30th birthday, Brady knows the odds. He’s doing it despite them.
“This is the worst time to own a business, much less start one,” he said one afternoon in the Lone Star Armory shop, near Rendon in southern Tarrant County. “But if you can make it in this economy, I’m convinced you can make it for good.”
By launching his small business last year, with no backing outside of family, friends and his own chutzpah, Brady is part of what seems to be a growing trend among veterans to become entrepreneurs.
About 9 percent of the businesses in the U.S. are veteran-owned, the vast majority of them small businesses with few to no employees, according to a Census Bureau survey taken in 2007, the most recent and comprehensive study of the subject.
But Brian Bascom, CEO of the U.S. Veterans Chamber of Commerce in Plano, figures that the numbers might be edging higher since then, based on what he calls a “fairly significant entrepreneurial bent” among those in the military.
Combine that with close to 15 percent unemployment nationwide among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, and one has a potential recipe for more entrepreneurship among 20- and 30-something veterans.
“These are not folks who are going to sit around on their thumbs, so if they can’t get a job, what are they going to do? They’ll make up their own job,” Bascom said. “It’s absolutely a kick in the pants for entrepreneurship.”
Howitzer Calibration in Iraq
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 23/Oct/2010 16:47
U.S. Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery, 3rd Striker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, fire rounds to calibrate an M777 Howitzer at Forward Operating Base Warhorse, Diyala province, Iraq, Dec. 8, 2009. (Photo by: Petty Officer 1st Class Eileen Kelly Fors) Date: 12.08.2009
Loading a Chinook in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 23/Oct/2010 16:45
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From Left: Spc. Christopher Hickey, Spc. Xavier De Leon and Sgt. Alexander Correa prepare attach a sling load to a CH-47 Chinook Helicopter at Forward Operating Base Altimur in Logar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 9, 2009.
U.S. Navy Divers Recover Body of Soldier From Afghanistan River
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 23/Oct/2010 16:42
Members of a U.S. Navy dive team from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 drag a Zodiac inflatable boat up a river in Afghanistan that they have been searching. Members of a U.S. Navy dive team from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 along with members of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne are currently participating in Operation Hero Rescue attempting to recover the body of U.S. Army Sgt Brandon Islip lost in a river in Afghanistan after going in the water Nov. 4, 2009. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Matthew Bash)
Afghan National Police and U.S. Troops Search for Caches in Khowst Province
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 22:42
U.S. Army Sgt. Stephen Olson exits a cave during a mission with Afghan national police to search for enemy weapons caches near Shah Wali Zarat, Khowst province, Afghanistan. Olson is deployed with A Company, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion (Airborne), 4-25 Brigade Combat Team.
Patrol in Khost Province, Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 22:40
U.S. Army Soldiers patrol an area near the village of Kowtay, Khowst province, Afghanistan. The Soldiers are deployed with 2nd Platoon, Company A, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.
M1-A1 Abrams rumbles across a live-fire range
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:39
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An M1-A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, attached to India Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, rumbles across a live-fire range during a Combined-Arms Live-Fire Exercise conducted as part of Exercise Bright Star 2009 in Egypt, Oct. 14, 2009. The multinational exercise is designed to improve readiness, interoperability and strengthen the military and professional relationships among U.S., Egyptian and participating forces. Bright Star is conducted by U.S. Central Command and held every two years. Elements of the 22nd MEU are currently are participating in the multinational exercise while serving as the theater reserve force for U.S. Central Command. Photo by Cpl. Theodore Ritchie
Patrol near Checkpoint North in Helmand province
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 20/Oct/2010 17:35
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Lance Cpl. Dustin Thompson, a radio operator with Firepower Control Team Alpha, 1st Brigade Platoon, 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan, sits in an irrigation canal with Cpl. Tim Barney, a forward observer with FCT-A, during a patrol, Sept. 23, near Checkpoint North in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The patrol took the soldiers and Marines through fields of crops and through waist-high irrigation canals from the checkpoint down to another U.K. post known as Tapa Parang and back up to the checkpoint. Photo by Cpl. Aaron Rooks