Pudding Time! Archives: military
It amazes me that the US Army, which seems to understand above all else that nothing (including initial indoctrination) beats OJT at the loving hands...
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Figures that on the day Wired reports gmail invitations aren't worth anything on eBay anymore I'd get the ability to send three. One's claimed. Two...
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Maybe the wave of unpleasant surprise and unhappiness that a threatened IRR callup produced is what caused the Army to extend the stop-loss instead: Thousands...
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Unfortunately the local TV station reporting the story doesn't have a copy of the item on its web page, but the Oregon National Guard says...
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Looks like the IRR callup has been underway for a while, but is about to pick up the tempo: The U.S. Army is scraping up...
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A little more digging on the IRR callup matter shows local and military media are paying attention, but the national outfits haven't picked up on...
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pk wrote to point out the Daily Kos noting a TAPPED bit : A friend of mine who is currently an inactive Army reservist forwarded...
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Rounding a few things up before my first day back in the world of full-time employment. While trying to put together a bit of journaling...
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CENTCOM's Casualty Report Search Utility is curiously mum on tiger maulings....
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The military has pulled a few pages from the McDonald's playbook, says Salon, handing important logistical functions over to corporations, and the result has been...
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"Reason" says it's time to get out of Korea . Jeepers. A Cato report I can live with. Related Pudding: Memorial Day I Was...
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...and war stories start with "no shit, there I was." VeriSEAL is your one-stop source for making sure that ex-special forces stone killer in the...
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I can't spend a Memorial Day without thinking of the year I pulled in Korea. The camp at which I was stationed was settled...
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A female embedded reporter discusses her time with an infantry unit in Iraq, and concludes "I'm not qualified to say that no woman could...
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<snark> If the British seem much more at home in Iraq, it's not just because of their urbane accents... it's because they're old hands...
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Iraq-o-meter has added a useful "cost per taxpayer" meter and a less clear "leadership status" board (which has Qusay as the only one at...
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The Village Voice has a glossary of war jargon: Forward Operating Base Shell: Headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division in central Iraq. Soldiers nicknamed this...
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The Hamilton Collection Lord Bless This Defender of Freedom Figurine : (via MeFi)...
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Seymour Hersh's article for The New Yorker on Rumsfeld's clashes with war planners is online now....
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Gripping war reporting from the Sunday Times. MeFi played the quote in the second paragraph for the obvious shock value, but there's a lot...
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Updated: Haven't done much warblogging to speak of because, I guess, there are more interested parties doing more efficient jobs of it when it's...
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There's a new enlistment program coming that offers short (19 month) enlistments across the military (plus the remainder of an eight year term as...
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Privacy Digest caught an item from The Register noting that the DoD's domain registration system is wide open to all sorts of abuse. Considering...
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Zen Buddhism is often cited as "the good religion" based on a superficial survey from people who'd otherwise consider themselves hostile to religion, and...
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The NY Times reports violence against US soldiers in S. Korea is getting worse. The report has some interesting details but misses a few...
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The New York Times offers "A Bulletproof Mind", a more-detailed-than-normal look at the training Special Forces soldiers undergo, including some detail on a particular close...
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United Press Internation reports on issues over the Army's report on the murder outbreak around Ft. Bragg. At the center of UPI's report is...
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WIRED reports on forced/covert medical experimentation on GIs during Gulf War I: "The results of our investigation showed a reckless disregard that shocked me,"...
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Sgt Stryker has a bit about the latest "shooter run amok" story to make the news, lamenting the bad rap the military will get...
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WIRED reports that the Pentagon has promised to use only FDA approved drugs on GIs: The Pentagon has assured Congress and military personnel that...
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Michael B. sent a link to today's LA Times, which has a feature on prostitution in off-post clubs in S. Korea....
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