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Pilot Error Caused Fatal T-38 Training Crash
Aircrews in T-38C Talons practice maneuvers at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, May 14, 2014. Pilots practice take offs, landing, touch and goes, and tactical formation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Danny Webb/Released) 8 Oct 2021 Military.com | By Stephen Losey...
Contending
These latest posted articles on active duty military and veterans suicide rates can also, I contend, be a function of the command structure and/or very poor field or “career” assignments. When I joined the USAF, and after going through a technical training school, I...
Burn Pits and Sick Veterans
In interview with Jon Stewart, Veterans Affairs chief says he’s ‘frustrated’ over slow pace of burn pit benefits By...
Study reveals top reason behind soldiers’ suicides
https://msrc.fsu.edu/news/study-reveals-top-reason-behind-soldiers-suicides When researchers asked 72 soldiers at Fort Carson, Colo., why they tried to kill themselves, out of the 33 reasons they had to choose from, all of the soldiers included one in particular — a...
Military Suicide is a Crisis. Its Leaders Bear Most of the Blame
The military has a suicide crisis.Its leaders bear most of the blame (Bolding by the editor of Military Truth) Since 9/11, about 7,057 service members have died in military operations. In the same time period, an estimated 30,177 service members and veterans have died...
Military Suicide – Another Reason to Abolish War
Military Suicide: One More Reason to Abolish War https://www.laprogressive.com/military-suicide/ The Pentagon issued its annual report recently on suicide in the military, and it provides us with very sad news. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on...
Military Contaminating All of Us and STILL Receives Out-of-sight Annual Increases!!!
The Military is Contaminating ALL of us and STILL Receives Out-Of-Sight Annual Increases!!! DOD releases new data on PFAS contamination of bases By Pat Elder, October 9, 2021 (Pat is a nationally-recognized investigative journalist with Civilian Exposure, an...
Why so many US soldiers wind up on the street
Originally Question to Quora - Why do so many US Soldiers end up in the streets? Initial answer by Steven Johnson, Former Facilities Coordinator PEO-AVN, RSA, AL at The United States of America (1989–2018) Out of respect for people I know, I will keep this brief and...
US Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at home and abroad since 9/11
Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad U.S. tanks appear during a military training exercise in May of 2016 in Vaziani, Georgia. (Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (Interjection by Don Chapin: And tanks are an anachronism in...
17 Retired B-1s Sent to Boneyard
Last of 17 Retired B-1s Sent to Boneyard as Air Force Preps for B-21s Military.com | By Stephen Losey 24 Sep 2021https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/09/24/last-of-17-retired-b-1s-sent-boneyard-air-force-preps-b-21s.html (Interjection by Don Chapin: GOOD...
When a military member literally wears their religion on their sleeve
by ChrisRodda - Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.) Friday September 10, 2021 · 9:00 AM PDT (A biography of Mikey Weinstein, a strong military/religion separatist, can be found at...
Intelligence Under Scrutiny: Afghanistan
Afghanistan disaster puts intelligence under scrutiny By Morgan Chalfant and Rebecca Beitsch - 08/18/21 05:54 PM EDT https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/568475-afghanistan-disaster-puts-intelligence-under-scrutiny (Interjection by Don Chapin -...
Billions spent on Afghan army benefit Taliban
Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited Taliban By ROBERT BURNS, August 17, ’21, https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-army-taliban-995b069a9008690582cb34f4cacd8515 WASHINGTON (AP) — Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security...
Why the US-Trained Afghan National Army Have Been Defeated with Ease by the Taliban
Why the US-Trained Afghan National Army Have Been Defeated with Ease by the Taliban 15 Aug 2021 https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/15/why-us-trained-afghan-national-army-have-been-defeated-ease-taliban.html (Interjection: AGAIN... the story repeats itself......
One President I Blame for Afghanistan
There is one president I blame for Afghanistan. And it isn't Trump. Christopher Reeves , Daily Kos Staff , Monday August 16, 2021 · 11:05 AM PDT https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/16/2046197/-There-is-one-president-I-blame-for-Afghanistan-And-it-isn-t-Trump...
Honorable Discharge for Army Colonel Facing Kidnapping, Assault Charges
Army Gives Colonel Facing Kidnapping and Assault Charges After Police Standoff an Honorable Discharge By Steve Beynon https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/13/army-gives-colonel-facing-kidnapping-and-assault-charges-after-police-standoff-honorable-discharge.html...
Vietnam and Afghanistan Similarities
Deceptions and Lies in America’s Wars... Vietnam and Afghanistan similarities. (INTERJECTION - In his below 24-page synopsis of his new book, “The Afghanistan Papers,” Craig Whitlock lays bare a cover-up of the Afghanistan war, VERY similar to the lies I remember the...
Reinventing the US Military for Real National Defense
Reinventing the US Military for Real National Defense By William Astore, TomDispatch, August 2, 2021 https://consortiumnews.com/2021/08/02/reinventing-the- us-military-for-real-national-defense/ Save Collectively, Americans need to imagine a world in which they are no...
Highlighting Differences in Basic Training
Question to Quora: Do drill instructors really yell at you like in Full Metal Jacket? Answered by Scott Timmons, Former Marine Corps Corporal (1997–2001) May 17, 2019 (bold/italicized comments by Don Chapin, ret’d USAF) The Drill Instructor in Full Metal Jacket was R....
Another Whistleblower Miscarriage of Justice
Another Whistleblower Miscarriage of Justice Chris Hedges, The Price of Conscience — Hale Sentenced to 45 Months July 27, 2021 Drone warfare whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison on Tuesday for telling the American people the truth. By Chris...
What You Don't Know About ROTC
An ex-Army Ranger's new mission to educate students considering joining the ROTC.
Safeguard Young Adults From Military Recruitment
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