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Iraq: The Steaks Were High
Major Bryan Cecrie spent much of 2005 in Iraq’s “triangle of death” south of Baghdad. The horrors of war were real, and meals were supposed to be an opportunity to take the edge off, he told the Combat...
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Navy Skippers: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Ernest Borgnine, God bless him, may have passed on, but real Navy skippers can fill the void left by Lieut. Commander Quinton McHale’s passing. Check out the latest from the New London Day: Navy Cmdr....
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Rocky Road from Air Force to Ambassador
The latest issue of the Air Force’s Air & Space Power Journal complains that the service’s promotion system leaves a lot to be desired, and quotes from its own officer’s training guide to prove it:...
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What’s It Like When Your Warship Runs Into an Oil Tanker?
Ever wonder how one of the Navy’s most sophisticated warships, the guided missile destroyer USS Porter, could collide with an oil tanker just outside the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday? Well, safe to...
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Planning for SNAFUS
The Air Force spent a lot of time and money a generation ago when it designed its C-17 cargo airplane to take off and land at short, unimproved runways around the world – “austere” was the word of...
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Three Crash Reports…
A trio of detailed reports on sad, and sordid, military misfortunes have surfaced in recent days. They make for great time-wasters at work. But here are the cases summed up in a nutshell: – Regarding...
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Iraq: How the CIA Says It Blew It on Saddam’s WMD
Now that we’re out of Iraq, the CIA has come clean on how come it was bamboozled about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The FOIA ferrets over at the National Security Archive petitioned...
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96 Seconds
It takes years to become an F-16 pilot, but only seconds to lose your plane – and perhaps your life – when things go haywire. On May 4, an Air Force pilot aboard a Viper during a routine war game over...
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General Misconduct
The Army is charging a general who served five tours in Afghanistan and Iraq with sexual assault, adultery, and inappropriate relationships with female subordinates.
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Coming Up Empty-Handed from Davy Jones’ Locker
Last month we noted the efforts of the Navy to come to the Air Force’s aid by diving 18,558 feet deep into the Pacific, off the Japanese coast, for bits of wreckage from a doomed F-16 (the pilot...
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9-Year-Old Runaway Flies to Vegas Without a Boarding Pass
His mother thought he was playing at a friend’s house. In fact, the nine-year-old had taken a lightrail train to the Minneapolis airport, slipped past the check-in counter and boarded a flight to Las...
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Walmart Defends Shopping Free-for-All During Food Stamp Glitch
Walmart has no regrets, even if it could cost them hundreds of dollars. A spokesman for the retailing giant told ABC News on Tuesday that the company “made the right choice” when it allowed stores in...
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UPS Blames Bad Weather, More Packages and Online Shopping for Delays
With many still waiting for their Christmas presents, UPS blamed this year’s surge of holiday package delays on a “perfect storm” of circumstances, including severe weather conditions in Dallas, a...
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