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• U.S. Air Force Awards United Launch Alliance WGS-4 Satellite Launch — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  U.S. Air Force Awards United Launch Alliance WGS-4 Satellite Launch DENVER, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center recently awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Wideband Global SATCOM-4 (WGS-4) satellite aboard a Delta IV ...
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• UAV’s Are Like Other Aircraft — General Atomics To Support Fielded Systems

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  When a company makes an aircraft for the U.S. military they not only get contracts to build them; they also get contracts to provide engineering support, modifications and maintenance. The U.S. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) fleet is just like their manned aircraft in this manner. It was announced yesterday that ...
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• The Next Step: A Stealth Drone

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 140
  AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed “to provide ...
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• Air Base Defense Gear Often Missing, Broken

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  From Deseret News: SALT LAKE CITY — After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Air Force created a program to improve defense of its bases against chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack — and to keep critical missions operating if one occurred. But inspectors have found that a third of the equipment ...
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• F-22 Raptors to deploy to Guam

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 541
  HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii: Fifteen F-22 Raptors are scheduled to deploy to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in January 2010 for approximately three months. The fighters and associated personnel will deploy from the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. The deployment supports U.S. Pacific Commands ...
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• VIDEO: Retired Air Force General Suggests Strip Searching All Young Muslim Men

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 607
  By GottaLaff Hey everyone, remember civil rights? The days when the word "profiling" was whispered, because it had such a negative connotation? Well, folks, say good-bye to yesteryear. Now a retired Air Force general says the P Word right out loud, with the gusto of a... very scared man: Hes into younger guys ? ...
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• U.S. Armed Forces chefs battle in Salt Lake City

  
  'Round the Chuckbox — Authority: 115
  I haved spent the morning catching up on You Tube videos. Viewing You Tube with a dial-up Internet connection isnt practical. A decent highspeed Internet connection is hard to come by in the Serria Nevada foothills. This video was posted to You Tube in April 2008. Chefs from each of the five military services battled ...
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• Military News Update

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 457
  Four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed Wednesday in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan. Some members of the Indiana National Guard are back home just in time to celebrate the new year. Lt. Gen. Michael Oates took command of the Joint IED Defeat Organization Wednesday. The Air ...
  5 days ago

• ‘Amazing conflict of interest’ alleged for Durango-based military consultants

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 617
  USA Today on Tuesday published a profile on a Colorado-based company called the Durango Group — founded by a retired Air Force general living in the Southwest Colorado city — that specializes in brokering deals between the Pentagon and defense contractors. The paper’s investigation found that the Durango ...
  6 days ago

• Herley Industries, Inc. Subsidiary, Micro Systems, Inc. Receives $16M Contract to Supply Avionics — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  Herley Industries, Inc. Subsidiary, Micro Systems, Inc. Receives $16M Contract to Supply Avionics LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Herley Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:HRLY) today announced that it has received a multi-year option contract with a potential value of $16M from Composite Engineering, Inc. ...
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• U.S. Air Force Continues To Buy Paveway Guidance Systems

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  The Paveway is a kit that converts an iron bomb into a laser guided one. They are not powered but use aerodynamic controls and a sensor kit to guide the bomb to where a laser is pointing. This laser may be ground or air based. With the development of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) GPS guided system ...
  1 week ago

• Major Mom writes note on Freedom

  
  Heart Book Series — Authority: 116
  I served 14 years in the US Air Force and it was a great way of life. I worked with nuclear weapons, but I never had to face battle. Sometimes, when you don’t work the front lines, you don’t feel important… but everyone in the service is important from Chow Hall Cooks to Admin Troops. Freedom is NOT FREE. ...
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• The Gift Of Good News

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 435
  I hope you’re having a GREAT Newtonmas ! Here’s a bit of recent good news that I hope makes your holiday even better: Military Advance: Religious Tolerance On The Upswing At The Air Force Academy (Rob Boston/Americans United For Separation Of Church And State; Dec 18) Four years ago, the situation ...
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• Alert: “Prepare For Rebellion”, Obama Orders US-Canadian Troops

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 515
  EU TimesKremlin position papers presented to Prime Minister Putin today on his upcoming meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen state that the European-US military alliance has authorized an ‘emergency request’ from President Obama to utilize American and Canadian NATO troops to put down what is ...
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• POTUS, FLOTUS Christmas address to Armed Forces

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 148
  December 25, 2009President and First Lady: Christmas Greeting and thanks to US troopsPRESIDENT:  Hello everyone, and Merry Christmas.  As you and your families gather to celebrate the holidays, we wanted to take a moment to send greetings from our family—from me, from Michelle, from Malia and Sasha—and from ...
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• Send the troops a video

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 148
  December 23, 2009Send the troops a video to wish them Happy Holidays via the DOD website.Here’s a few excerpts from a post “Holiday Cheer for the Heroes” on the White House Blog by Tech. Sgt. Nathan Gallahan that’s worth reading in its entirety. [Im not promoting the DOD or WH websites.] Tech Sgt Gallahan has ...
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• Swindler Duped CIA Over Al-Qaeda Decoding Scam

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 527
  Related “research”: U.S. Government Funding Research Into “Malintent” Detector ? Via: AFP : A con artist convinced the CIA and other US agencies in 2003 that he could decode secret messages sent by Al-Qaeda through Al-Jazeera broadcasts, Playboy magazine reported. Duped by claims that “bar codes” ...
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• 8th Fighter Squadron flagship arrives

  
  Milcom Monitoring Post — Authority: 441
  by Staff Sgt. Sanjay Allen, 49th Fighter Wing Public Affairs HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFNS) -- The 8th Fighter Squadron received its first of 20 F-22 Raptors Dec. 21 here. The arrival of 8th FS flagship, a Langley Air Force Base Raptor, which came from maintenance in Palmdale, Calif., starts the next chapter ...
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• Phone Cards for Christmas

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Logan, my son, made Eagle Scout this last May. Logan’s Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project was to organize and collect cell phones for the organization, “Cell Phones for Soldiers”, which is run by Brittany and Robbie Bergquist of Norwell, Massachusetts. Cell Phones for Soldiers turns old cell phones into ...
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• Today in History: Linebacker II Begins

  
  Chaotic Synaptic Activity — Authority: 103
  When the enemy thinks they can stall peace talks, how do you respond?  With a diplomatic tools that “communicates” beyond the Paris meeting room. On this day in 1972, Linebacker II , the largest air campaign since WWII began, with Air force and Navy planes filling the skies over North Vietnam. For 11 days, ...
  2 weeks ago

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