Yeager was one of four working dogs who received American Humane’s K-9 Medal of Courage in a ceremony Tuesday at the Rayburn House Office Building. American Humane President Robin Ganzert said that 20 working dogs have been honored with the K-9 Medal of Courage over the past four years. Dogs like these have gone on countless patrols, house-to-house sweeps, locating ... Read More »
Scott Mann taught lessons he learned from his 18 years serving as a Green Beret oto Rooftop Leadership at the NAIFA Performance + Purpose conference. Humans are “meaning, seeking, emotional, social creatures,” he said, but too often, advisors take the wrong approach to relate to those they serve. Advisors spend a great deal of time being reactionary and transactional, with ... Read More »
For the briefest of moments, UFO fanatics had a dream to prove once and for all that the military was hiding evidence of aliens at the Air Force’s highly classified test site in the Nevada desert. That joke Facebook page that went viral joked, “They can’t stop us all…” After all is said and done, the creator of “Alienstock” is ... Read More »
Members of the U.S. Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment gave us a window into U.S. military advances in manned-unmanned teaming, networked munitions, and artificial intelligence. Source: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29758/army-night-stalker-chinook-teamed-up-with-bomb-slinging-drone-in-complex-ai-enabled-test Read More »
A handful of folks questioned why I didn’t publish anything special for 9/11. I owe you an answer. The answer is because the vast majority of our subscribers don’t need any reminder of what day it was. 9/11 was and remains the Pearl Harbor of our lives. As such, we have been living with the legacy of 9/11 every day ... Read More »
Thirty years after earning a distinguished Service Cross for his heroics as a Green Beret in 1967, Evans’ cross was stolen along with a Purple Heart that he received during the Korean War and other medals at a Green Beret convention in Las Vegas. Purple Hearts United, a non-profit whose mission is to return lost, stolen and misplaced military medals, ... Read More »
Rob O’Neill and his fellow SEAL Team Six members didn’t kill Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, for the reward or the glory, he said Wednesday. They did it for the single mother who took her child to daycare the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, went to work in New York City’s Twin Towers and died in the attacks ... Read More »
For the first time, a link has been shown between common classes of antibiotics and two forms of heart disease. The researchers hope their study helps inform the public and physicians that if patients present with cardiac issues, where no other cause has been discovered, fluoroquinolone antibiotics could potentially be a cause. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190910154710.htm Read More »
Heavy casualties were inflicted by U.S. forces with a series of airstrikes in Paktiya province and Aab Band district of Ghazni province, killing at least 17 Taliban militants and wounded 13 others. Gul Nazar, Qari Jamal alias Fedayee and Najeeb, the three local commanders of Taliban in Paktiya were also killed. Source: https://www.khaama.com/u-s-airstrikes-inflict-heavy-casualties-on-taliban-militants-in-paktiya-province-04021/ Read More »
Space and Place is a non-profit group that runs monthly conversation gatherings at Vienna coffeehouses, pairing people with complete strangers to chat for two hours. No wifi, no phones – just people taking a risk and connecting. Source: https://adventure.com/vienna-viennese-cafes-conversation/ Read More »
Staff Sgt. Matthew Charvat, his wife and two children alleged that San Diego Family Housing and Lincoln Military Property Management were negligent in addressing a number of problems in their residence in Gateway Village, including visible contamination, water damage, elevated levels of moisture inside the home, deteriorated and crumbling drywall, and defective appliances. These issues allegedly lead to illnesses and ... Read More »
Later this year, a U.S. service member is likely to be deployed to Afghanistan who was not yet born on September 11, 2001, when al-Qa`ida terrorists launched the most devastating terrorist attack in history and killed almost 3,000 people, mostly Americans. The years in between have seen wars in Iraq and Syria justified in the name of counterterrorism as well ... Read More »
A deeply disturbing program mimics voice, tonality, and accent of personnel to dupe companies into sending money. Cybersecurity firm Symantec says it has come across several cases of deepfake voice fraud used to trick companies into sending money to a fraudulent account. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20851248/deepfakes-ai-fake-audio-phone-calls-thieves-trick-companies-stealing-money Read More »
Supacat, the UK headquartered Special Forces vehicle developer, is showing the most advanced version of its world leading special forces vehicle, the HMT Extenda Mk2, for the first time at DSEi 2019. Supacat has undertaken a rigorous and extensive programme of trials to Verify and Validate the performance of the HMT Extenda Mk2. The vehicle has successfully completed a 12,500km ... Read More »
Back in 1913, David Fasken paid $1.50 an acre for plains outside Midland to make a fortune raising cattle. Fasken died 16 years later, unaware of the riches below the surface. Now his heirs are among the 100 families that are the biggest private landowners in the U.S. In the Fasken portfolio are the 165,000 acres in the Permian, a sedimentary ... Read More »
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