Luckily nobody really seemed to mind because of the task we were doing so we have spent the last six weeks "hangin' out." Let me tell you that it was worth every last penny. We have since convinced another guy in the platoon to buy one and he is as impressed as we are. I find ...
Private contractors employed by the Defense Department in Afghanistan will continue to outnumber the size of the American troop presence, even after President Obama sends 30,000 more soldiers to fight in the war, according to the military’s most recent contractor count. The latest figure ...
Today, it's where many returning troops first touch US soil, or where departing soldiers say their last goodbyes.On this particular night, 936 troops - some heading to Iraq; others heading home - stride down a jetway feeding into the airport lobby, where greeters line them on either side....
How locals are adjusting One impacted soldier, who requested anonymity because “there are people in much more dire circumstances than my family’s inconvenience,” told Army Times he’d moved his family into a hotel due to the outage. All the refrigerated and frozen food they had...
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Family separation is one of the most negative aspects of troop deployment, according to "How Deployments Affect Service Members," a study by the Rand Corp. Researchers surveyed and conducted focus groups with U.S. military personnel stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004. They found...
In peacetime, however, mines are a hazard to civilian ships, especially in and around ports whose capture would be vital to the war effort. One possible solution is a rocket-delivered sea mine that combines two existing American weapon systems. The U.S. Navy’s Quickstrike mine is an ...
Jake Sullivan: "AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria," the then-State Dept. official – and current national security adviser–told Hillary Clinton in a Feb. 2012 email. AP Sullivan, the current national security adviser, is one of ...
Of the roughly eighty thousand soldiers who had started from Jiangxi, fewer than one in ten reached Shaanxi. This epic journey, marked by costly battles and personal tragedies, became known as “the Long March,” the foundation myth of modern China. As with all myths, there were and are en...
defense spending over many years, America’s armed forces benefit not only from greater troop numbers and superior weapons but also from significant transport and logistics assets. Other allies are starting to spend more though. After years of cuts, NATO members committed to ramp up their ...