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• Military Casualty Report

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 450
  The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom: Staff Sgt. David H. Gutierrez, 35, of San Fransico, Ca., died Dec. 25 at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his dismounted patrol with an improvised explosive ...
  9 hours ago

• Contracts for December 24, 2009

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.
  3 days ago

• Military Casualty Report

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 450
  The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom: Lance Cpl. Omar G. Roebuck, 23, of Moreno Valley, Calif., died Dec. 22, as a result of a non-hostile incident in Helmand province, Afghanistan.  He was assigned to 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine ...
  3 days ago

• Afghanistan: A Few Numbers You Might Want to Know About the War

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 606
  Jeremy Scahill of Rebel Reports offers some insight into the size and nature of Mr Obama’s War: A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight  subcommittee in the US Congress] on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the ...
  4 days ago

• Contracts for December 23, 2009

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.
  4 days ago

• Military service members get increase in allowance for housing

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Home , Real Estate , Career , Recession While President Obama is preparing to send more military personnel to Afghanistan with the new year, for those servicemen and women who are remaining in the United States, the Department of Defense has announced an increase in 2010 for what is known as the ...
  4 days ago

• Peak Stupid is Real and it’s Real Spectacular!

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 129
  Peak stupid was reached decades ago.  At this point in our short history, we’ve reached absolute metaphysically, cataclysmic proportions of stupid.Or DEFCON Mauve as Homeland likes to refer to it.Every day brings us new levels of stupid to dwell upon.  Healthscare, or our wars against the unapproved religions and ...
  4 days ago

• COBRA extension passes — with a few changes

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Don’t ditch the paperwork for the federally mandated COBRA subsidy program just yet. The subsidy’s just been extended, and it has a new wrinkle. The extension, passed by both houses of Congress as an add-on to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 , was signed by President Obama Dec. 21. The ...
  5 days ago

• Obama signs Franken’s anti-rape amendment into law

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 135
  I’m really, really happy about this.  No employer should be able to require someone to sign away their rights in order to work for them.  For some of the back story see HERE . The White House Press Office sent out a statement today announcing that President Obama signed the Department of Defense Appropriations ...
  5 days ago

• Department of Defense makes official 2nd BCT deployment to Afghanistan

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 488
  FORT CAMPBELL – The Department of Defense announced today the deployment of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team “Strike”, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), as part of the increased deployment of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Approximately 3,400 Soldiers will deploy as part of the United States’ force increase of ...
  5 days ago

• Military Casualty Report

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 450
  The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom: Pfc. Serge Kropov, 21, of Hawley, Pa., died Dec. 20 as a result of a non-hostile incident in Helmand province, Afghanistan.  He was assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine ...
  5 days ago

• Blackwater/Xe, the Company You Cant Get Rid of

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Yesterday, Justin Elliot at Talking Points Memo published an interesting piece on the never-ending saga that is the governments relationship with the company formerly known as Blackwater. Despite the scandals , investigations and indictments that have recently plagued Xe – and the resultant loss of a ...
  5 days ago

• Senior Executive Service Appointment

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 450
  Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced the following Department of Defense Senior Executive Service appointment: Michael J. Scionti has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service and is assigned as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intergovernmental affairs and homeland defense, Office of the ...
  5 days ago

• Contracts for December 22, 2009

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.
  5 days ago

• US Defense: Some Interesting Historical Facts

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 511
  The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is the federal department which deals with coordinating and supervising all agencies directly involved with national security and military matters. The DoD is one of the most important occupants of The Pentagon and consists of three chief sub-departments, the Department of ...
  5 days ago

• NORAD Tracks Santa - 2009

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2008 - International ( English , Deutsch , Espanol , Italiano , Francais , 中文 , 日本語 , ): Via The North Pole All the preparations for this year are in place! Return on Christmas Eve to track St. Nick on his magical flight around the world! Until then, come back each day to receive ...
  6 days ago

• Behind the scenes: NORADs Santa tracker

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  Behind the scenes: NORADs Santa tracker : Via Geek Gestalt - CNET News. All joking aside, NORAD has been taking its Santa tracking project seriously for decades. But it actually began in 1955 with a wrong number. One morning that December, U.S. Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, the director of operations at CONAD, the ...
  6 days ago

• Defense Department Moves Ahead with Renewables, Energy Efficient Lighting

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 624
  Robins Air Force Base in Georgia will purchase about 5 percent of its annual electricity consumption in the form for renewable energy supplied by the Georgia Power, according to a press release.The two-year deal will cover about 16 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year.Through the deal, Robins Air Force Base, a ...
  6 days ago

• The Bubble Just Keeps Rolling Along

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  One reason so many roadside bombs in Afghanistan use pressure plates or wire controlled devices to detonate these weapons, is because American jamming technology has made wireless detonation of the bombs so difficult. The U.S. Department of Defense is working on a third generation of jammers, to make sure the ...
  1 week ago

• Officials and Experts Warn of Crash-Induced Unrest

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 435
  Numerous high-level officials and experts warn that the economic crisis could lead to unrest world-wide – even in developed countries: Today, Moody’s warned that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger social unrest in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world, that in the ...
  1 week ago

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