Articles Tagged with military

16Jun

Chief Lt. Gen. David Morrison Tells Sexiest Service Members To “Get Out Now” [Video]

Australian Army Chief Lt. Gen. David Morrison has decided to speak out about ...

09Jun

Prince Harry Defended Gay Soldier From Bullying Says New Book

Lance Corporal James Wharton is to reveal in his memoir how Prince Harry ...

07Jun

Injection Prevents Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Mice

An injection that prevents post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mice ...

14Apr

Canada… The Next Iraq? [Video]

A radical republic that not only seems intent on destroying earth, but the ...

19Mar

‘Metro: Last Light’ ‘Salvation’ Trailer Hits

'Metro Last Light' gets 'Salvation' trailer

Metro: Last Light just got a new trailer titled “Salvation.” ...

24Dec

Marines And Sailors Must Pass Random Alcohol Testing

Marines and sailors now subject to random alcohol testing

It’s common knowledge that sailors and Marines are known for their ...

17Dec

U.S. Marine Makes First Ever Same-Sex Proposal In The White House

U.S. Marine Corps captain Matthew Phelps proposed to his longtime partner ...

13Dec

Fat Soldiers Booted, Is Obesity The Real National Security Threat?

Commentary | As news fat soldiers were booted from enlistment due to ...

11Dec

Too Fat To Fight: Obesity Is The Leading Cause Of Ineligibility For Army Recruits

Obesity is now the leading cause of ineligibility for army recruits and ...

10Dec

Egypt’s Military Given Arresting Rights During Government Referendum

CAIRO – In order to safeguard a government referendum planned for ...

07Dec

43-Year-Old Brian Rice Plays Basketball At Division III Level After Serving 25 Years In Navy

Brian Rice was uncertain about college when he was a teenager. This ...

01Nov

China Stealth Fighter Jet J-31 Prototype Tested In Shenyang [Video]

The China stealth fighter prototype jet flew this past Wednesday in Shenyang ...

14Aug

Military Blimps To Join U.S. Border Patrol?

Military survillance blimps could well become new additions to the United ...

27Jun

Pentagon Building Its Own Military Version Of Reddit

Reddit has blossomed into one of the largest website destinations in the world and through its use may social issues have been addressed, friendships have been formed and problems have been solved. It’s the latter outcome of Reddit that has led the Pentagon into building a Defense Department-approved version of Reddit called “Eureka.” The new… Read more »

DARPA Awards Contractor $21.4 Million To Secure Google Android Devices

Malware detection and network security contractor Invincea has been awarded a $21.4 million contract to secure the Google Android OS for military use. The award was given to the company by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The contract requires that Invincea figure out how to secure… Read more »

24Jun

US Drones To Perform Surveillance In Caribbean, Aid In Hunt For Drug Traffickers

Predator B Guardian UAV for Caribbean Use

The Department of Homeland Security is extending its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to fight drug smuggling. By expanding its program the US Drone will more than double the square miles they cover along the northern and southwestern U.S. border. The U.S. currently operates a… Read more »

27Mar

The Unreal Game Engine Being Used By The FBI In Training Software

Anyone who has played Gears of War or Mass Effects will probably recognize ...

01Mar

Navy Tests Railgun With Range Of 100 Miles

The U.S. Navy is in the process of testing a new futuristic electromagnetic ...

25Feb

“Act of Valor” Takes Down “Good Deeds” to Win Box Office Weekend

“Act of Valor”, a Navy SEAL action movie, easily beat Tyler ...

23Feb

Bradley Manning Finally Arraigned, Defers Plea

After more than six hundred and thirty days in solitary pretrial confinement ...

21Feb

No airborne laser for you Mr. Air Force

Since lasers were first imagined it has been the not so secret woodie in the ...

18Feb

DARPA aims to bring a robotic version of Avatar to reality

We are all now quite familiar with the whole Avatar made popular in the ...

26Jan

Arlington Cemetery Missing $12 Million As Officials Are Still Locating Misplaced Graves

Arlington Cemetery Missing 12 Million Dollars

Army officials on Thursday announced that they are closer to identifying the ...

29Dec

Obama White House Selling F-15′s To Saudi Arabia, Worth $30 Billion

The Obama White House today announced that a deal to sell $30 billion ...

28Dec

Obama Administration Has Used Record Number Of Military Drones

In the five years leading up to the Barack Obama presidency the United ...

18Dec

Last American Troops Left Iraq This Morning

In the early morning Sunday hours 110 armored trucks and other vehicles ...

16Dec

Air Force Launches Investigation Into Dead Body Casket Gag

It’s bad form to pose as a dead body in a casket, it’s in ...

15Dec

American Troops Leaving Iraq, Leon Panetta To Hold Quiet Ceremony

On Thursday afternoon Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will hold a quiet ...

08Dec

274 American Troops Found Dumped In Landfill

U.S. officials have found the remains of 274 troops dumped in a Virginia ...

02Dec

US Senate Passes Massive $662 Billion Defense Spending Bill

The United States Senate on Thursday passed a massive $662 billion defense ...

25Nov

US Military to get Kamikaze drones

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Drones are big thing for today’s military from the huge Predator ...

16Nov

President Obama: United States Does Not Fear China

With the United States recently singing a new security agreement with ...

14Nov

Tom Harrison, WWII Veteran, Receives War Medals in Mail … 66 Years Late

Tom Harrison waited 66 years for the war medals he earned after being freed ...

10Oct

Unmanned stealth plane achieves 1st cruise mode flight

The military sure seems to have a great big love affair with unmanned ...

07Oct

The US Reaper and Predator drone fleet hit by virus

There isn’t much said about it but it is well known in security ...

04Jul

Happy 4th of July, Internet!

The internet reacts to Fourth of July/Independence Day celebrations across ...

[Video] Montage, Servicemen and Women in Iraq Sing ‘Star Spangled Banner’

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This montage, posted on YouTube, shows over 150 servicemembers singing The ...

29Jun

[Science Rumor] Soldier’s night vision goggles replaced by contacts

By now I am pretty sure that everyone is familiar with what night vision ...

30May

US Army using Crysis 2 engine for ultra-realistic military sim

Forget your Call of Dutys and your Battlefields – the U.S. Army is ...

05May

Another Unknown Bin Laden Raid Tidbit – The SEALs K9 Partner

Late last night I wrote about the secret helicopters used by the SEAL team ...

04May

Speculation is rampant when it comes to the secret copters used in Bin Laden raid

The U.S. raid to finally get Osama bin Laden; dead or alive, is going to be ...

24Mar

Has Wikileaks finally bitten off a secret too big?

Wikileaks – the exposer of all things secret – has been in the ...

01Oct

Social Media: The military to go where the Washington Post fears to tread

It is interesting that during all the hoopla surrounding the memo the brass ...

07Aug

Wanna Know What It’s Like To Fly The U2 Spy Plane?

Spotted this video on Gizmodo today and it was too cool to pass up. It shows ...

05Aug

Google Announces Open Invite To Google Voice For All Military Personnel

Google Voice services are still only being offered by invite only. I ...

28Jun

Got your puke bag handy? [Video]

If air shows are known for one thing it is the air acrobatics that are put ...

04Jun

Wanna buy some missile guidance chips or how about some nuke gear?

No this isn’t another Craigslist post but you’d never know it ...

07May

Bloggers headed to the sea

If there is one thing you can say about the US military it is that while ...

16Jan

12Dec

Watch what you’re hitting with that flyswatter [Video]

Pretty soon you may have to be very careful about trying to kill that flying ...