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Face of Defense: Airman Controls Air Force's Busiest Airfield | | Like most other boys, Air Force Staff Sgt. John Hammer dreamed of growing up and being a professional football star. Instead, the 30-year-old husband and father of three is a senior watch supervisor at the Air Force's busiest airfield. | | 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Carter Offers Apologies to Afghan Leaders | | Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, on a trip to Afghanistan, joined other senior officials in condemning the improper disposal of religious materials, including Qurans, at Bagram Airfield. | | 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Quran Incident Inquiry Underway, ISAF Official Says | | Coalition members are working with Afghan leaders to quickly and fully investigate the "grave mistake" that ended in partially burned Qurans at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, Afghanistan, a coalition official said. | | 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM |
U.S., African Forces Mitigate Terror Group's Impact | | U.S. special operations forces are helping four Central African nations reduce the size and lethality of the Lord's Resistance Army, a group that has terrorized the region for more than 20 years. | | 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM |
DOD Works to Ease Troop Transition to Credentialed Jobs | | The Defense Department is working to break down credentialing barriers for service members and veterans preparing to enter the civilian workforce, a DOD official told the audience gathered for the National Credentialing Summit. | | 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM |
'Trust Military Profession's Core,' Dempsey Tells Cadets | | Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently told ROTC cadets at Tuskegee University in Alabama, that they are the next generation that will lead the military forward, and he spoke of the importance of the issue of trust. | | 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Carter Reaffirms U.S. Commitment With Afghan Leadership | | Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter met with Afghan leadership and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to training and transitioning Afghan national security forces and a long-term U.S.-Afghan partnership. | | 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Allen, Karzai Condemn Insurgent Violence | | U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, joined with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in condemning a recent spate of insurgent violence in Afghanistan. | | 2/21/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Panetta, Allen Apologize for Destruction of Religious Materials | | Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta joined the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan in apologizing to the Afghan people for the reported inappropriate treatment of religious materials, including copies of the Quran, on Bagram Airfield. | | 2/21/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Army Wants to Change to Keep Soldiers 'Excited' About Service | | Army leaders are aware of the differences between field forces and garrison forces and seek to unify the different experiences in an effort to keep soldiers excited about serving their country, the Army chief of staff said. | | 2/21/2012 12:00:00 AM |
DOD Spotlights Value of Financial Fitness | | Citing the potentially devastating impact of financial issues on career and home life, officials are encouraging troops and their families to build financial fitness by kick-starting a savings plan and reducing their debt. | | 2/21/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Syria Challenge Differs From Libya, Chairman Says | | The security challenges in Syria are different geographically and militarily from those that led to NATO operations in Libya, and intervention would be difficult, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. | | 2/19/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Senior Enlisted Leaders Cite Troops' Top Concerns | | The senior enlisted advisors for the four military services discussed budget, retention and other issues on service members' minds during a hearing of a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee. | | 2/17/2012 12:00:00 AM |
DOD Raises Nearly $16 Million in CFC Contributions | | The Defense Department raised nearly $16 million in contributions during the 2011 Combined Federal Campaign, marking its fifth consecutive year raising more than $15 million, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said. | | 2/17/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Navy to Host Spouse, Veteran Hiring Fair at Bethesda | | The Navy and more than 25 large employers are teaming up to host the first-ever "100,000 Jobs Mission Hiring Event" at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, Md., on Feb. 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | | 2/17/2012 12:00:00 AM |
Panetta Takes Strategy, Budget Message to Troops | | Fresh from three days of Capitol Hill testimony, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta flew to Louisiana, where he shared his strategy and budget vision with service members on Barksdale Air Force Base. | | 2/17/2012 12:00:00 AM |
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WARRIOR DIVER | | Marine Corps Cpl. Marcus Chischilly, a wounded warrior with the West Team, dives in the pool at the start of the 50-meter race during the 2012 Marine Corps Trials hosted by the Wounded Warrior Regiment on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 21, 2012. Chischilly won the silver medal in the race for single-leg amputees. Wounded warrior Marines, veterans and allies are competing in the second annual trials. | | 2/22/2012 6:53:00 PM |
AFGHAN PRESIDENT | | U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012. Carter is in Afghanistan meeting with NATO leadership as well as Afghan leaders. | | 2/22/2012 5:25:00 PM |
DEFENSE TALKS | | U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter meets with Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012. Carter is in Afghanistan meeting with NATO leadership as well as Afghan leaders. | | 2/22/2012 5:20:00 PM |
KABUL WALK | | U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter walks with U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan C. Crocker outside the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012. | | 2/22/2012 5:10:00 PM |
HONOR CORDON | | U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter walks through an honor cordon at the Afghan Ministry of Defense in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012. Carter is in Afghanistan meeting with NATO leadership as well as Afghan leaders. | | 2/22/2012 5:03:00 PM |
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME | | Travis Greene, a wounded warrior with the Allies Team, takes a shot during the championship game against the East Team during the 2012 Marine Corps Trials hosted by the Wounded Warrior Regiment on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 21, 2012. Wounded warrior Marines, veterans and allies are competing in the second annual trials, which include swimming, wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, track and field, archery and shooting. | | 2/22/2012 4:49:00 PM |
RAPPEL READY | | U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joshua Roberts practices rappelling during Winter Quick Shot 2012 in Azusa, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012. Roberts is assigned to the 4th Combat Camera Squadron. Quick Shot is a field exercise to train combat camera personnel to operate in a combat environment. | | 2/22/2012 4:29:00 PM |
SECURITY TEAM | | U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brandon Mann uses his automatic rifle's scope to scan the area while providing security with his military working dog, Ty, around the villages of Sre Kala and Paygel in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 17, 2012. Mann, a military working dog handler, and Ty, an improvised explosive device detection dog, are assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. | | 2/22/2012 4:21:00 PM |
AIR WAR COLLEGE | | Air Force Lt. Col. Dean Clothier asks a question to Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Air War College on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Feb. 21, 2012. | | 2/22/2012 10:40:00 AM |
CADET QUESTION | | A Tuskegee University ROTC cadet asks a question to Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at Tuskegee University, Ala., Feb. 21, 2012. | | 2/22/2012 10:21:00 AM |
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Pic of the Day: China’s Z-10 Attack Helo | Happy hump day, everyone. Check out this close up photo of China’s Z-10 attack helicopter. Remember, the Z-10 — like the brand new Z-19 — looks familiar because it’s based on the Eurocopter Dauphin light cargo chopper. You know, the same helo the U.S. Coast Guard uses for search and rescue and even combat air [...] | | 2/22/2012 10:44:18 AM |
Air Force Special Ops U-28 Crashes in Africa | Some sad news from the weekend: Four Air Commandos died over the weekend when their U-28 special mission single engine turboprop went down in Djibouti Saturday. The planes based on the Pilatus PC-12, often operating in civilian livery, are flown by Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) on missions to remote airstrips around the world [...] | | 2/21/2012 1:14:51 PM |
Pics of the week: F-35 With Weapons | We here at DT had yesterday off so this is our Monday. To start the week off, we thought we’d show you these brand new pics of the F-35. These cool and slightly awkward looking photos shows an F-35A Joint Strike Fighter flying with external weapons hard points for the first time ever. The jet, out of Edwards Air Force [...] | | 2/21/2012 10:59:28 AM |
Video: A C-5 Galaxy Air Launches an ICBM. What!? | In the 1970s, the Air Force launched a Minuteman ICBM launched from a C-5 Galaxy. Hold on, what!?!? That was my reaction upon learning that the above sentence is true. In 1974, the Air Force decided that it could turn C-5 Galaxy airlifters into flying SSBNs. Yup, Air Force planners thought the missile would be [...] | | 2/17/2012 3:55:39 PM |
China’s Minesweeping Drones | Amid all the recent talk about the need for U.S. Navy minesweepers in the Persian Gulf in case Iran attempts to close the straight of Hormuz with sea mines, I noticed an interesting fact about China’s minesweeping plans. They involve drones. Not sleek, purpose-built, sea-going drones, but vessels originally designed to carry people that have [...] | | 2/17/2012 2:13:43 PM |
Retro Pic of the Day: F-15s Intercepting MiG-29s | Happy Thursday. Let’s start things off with this great picture of two U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagles out of Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska intercepting a pair of Soviet MiG-29s over the Bering Sea back in the day. The shot, taken in 1989, shows the wingman crossing over the lead jet’s contrail in order [...] | | 2/16/2012 10:46:32 AM |
Is Boeing Proposing a P-8-Lite? | So Boeing says its considering shrinking the P-8 Poseidon submarine hunter into a smaller airplane to replace P-3 Orion fleets around the world, according to a Defense News article from the Singapore Air Show. My question is, what aircraft does Boeing have in mind? I mean, the company has spent a ton of time over [...] | | 2/14/2012 5:49:44 PM |
Video: Inside a KC-130J Harvest Hawk Gunship | So the Marine Corps’ KC-130J Harvest Hawk has been around for a little while now. As you know, Harvest Hawks are KC-130J tankers equipped with plug and play air to ground missile and sensor systems allowing them to pinch hit as gunships for Marines on the ground, and they’ve been doing plenty of shooting in [...] | | 2/14/2012 2:17:01 PM |
Pic of the Day: Harriers on a Big Deck Carrier | Here’s a sight I bet you weren’t expecting. The image above shows U.S. Marine Corps AV-8 Harriers operating off a big deck aircraft carrier. The pic was taken in the 1970s when the Marines were testing out the jump jets aboard the Midway class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, a ship that was commissioned [...] | | 2/13/2012 1:59:52 PM |
DoD’s 2013 Budget Preview (Updated with Docs) | Happy budget day! Yup, the Pentagon’s 2013 budget request officially drops today and according to Reuters, it’s going to ask for $187.8 billion to buy planes and ships while chopping cash for ground vehicles. As we’ve said before, in the 2013 budget, strategic weapons are winning the funding game in the second decade of the 21st [...] | | 2/13/2012 10:26:59 AM |
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Trade Advisory Committee Convenes in Washington, Hears Program Updates | | On President's Day, in true patriotic spirit, members of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection, also known as COAC, traveled from around the country to meet Tuesday in the nation's capital. The meeting was the trade advisory group's first public gathering in 2012. (more) | | 2/22/2012 7:16:36 PM |
CBP Stops Thousands of Unsafe Hair Dryers | | Washington - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized thousands of hair dryers recently that were determined to constitute a "substantial product hazard" under U.S. law, for failing to have adequate immersion protection. The potentially dangerous hair dryers were identified through a nationwide targeting operation by the CBP Import Safety Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (CTAC). (more) | | 2/15/2012 1:07:20 PM |
Counterfeit Perfume Seizures Total $51 Million | | Washington-U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized imports of counterfeit perfume valued at nearly $51 million during fiscal year 2011.Counterfeit perfumes are a form of theft from the brand owner, and protecting American intellectual property is a priority for CBP. (more) | | 2/9/2012 1:04:16 PM |
Secretary Napolitano Announces Final Rule for Permanent Global Entry Program | | Washington -Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the publication of a Final rule that would establish Global Entry-a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) voluntary initiative, which allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers to streamline the international arrivals and admission process at airports for trusted travelers through biometric identification-as a permanent program. (more) | | 2/7/2012 12:39:59 PM |
Napolitano Notes CBP Successes in State of Homeland Security Speech | | The work of Customs and Border Protection featured prominently in Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's address to Washington, D.C., journalists yesterday as she described how "our homeland security and our economic security go hand in hand.. (more) | | 1/31/2012 1:22:48 PM |
Global Entry | | Global Entry has been updated.
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Electronic System for Travel Authorization | | ESTA is an automated system that determines the eligibility of visitors to travel to the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program. The ESTA application collects the same information collected on Form I-94W. ESTA applications may be submitted at anytime prior to travel, though it is recommended travelers apply when they begin preparing travel plans. (more) | | 10/6/2010 5:32:12 PM |
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Blasts to the Head ‘Primed’ Brains for PTSD, Study Says | | The "signature wounds" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury -- are both rooted in traumatic events. Until recently, though, military docs mostly treated them as two different health problems: one physical, the other psychological. That approach might be poised to change, thanks to a new study, which shows that injuries to a specific part of the brain "primed" it for PTSD's psychological ailments.
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iBattle: Apple May Finally Storm the Pentagon | | In civilian life, the iPad is the clear tablet leader. But in the military, the Pentagon likes its Android devices, and has shunned Apple products. But that may be about to change, as an Air Force office buys 18,000 (mostly) iPads, giving Cupertino a new chance to win the military's OS and tablet wars. | | 2/22/2012 2:44:15 PM |
Military Burned Korans At Giant Afghanistan Jail | | General John Allen, Commander of ISAF on Koran… by SynapticDigital Updated, 8:45 a.m., February 22 It’s bad enough that the U.S. military burned — it says accidentally — Korans in Afghanistan. But if that symbolism wasn’t already a setback to the war effort, the NATO command in Afghanistan confirms that the destruction of an unknown [...] | | 2/21/2012 10:48:52 AM |
Special Ops Forces Killed in African Spy Plane Crash | | Four Air Force Special Operators on a spy mission over east Africa died when their U-28 plane crashed as it was returning to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. It’s another reminder of the hidden costs of the U.S.’ expanding shadow wars in Africa. Two captains, Ryan P. Hall and Nicholas F. Whitlock, Lt. Justin J. Wilkens and [...] | | 2/20/2012 12:31:50 PM |
U.S. Super-Sizing Afghan Jail It Promised to Abandon | | As recently as last year, the U.S. wanted to give the Afghan government control over the largest wartime jail in Afghanistan. That was then. Now it's giving out a $35 million contract to expand the prison so much it'll be able to hold twice as many detainees. Wasn't the war supposed to be winding down? | | 2/20/2012 6:30:00 AM |
Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: Same as the Movie, but With Robots Instead of Aliens | | Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans' place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target. If you've got Danger Room's taste in movies, you've probably seen both ideas on the big screen. Now Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research arm, wants to bring 'em into the real world. | | 2/16/2012 4:51:03 PM |
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