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The US Army now favors commodity Android smartphones with well designed cases over tablets like these.

http://www.army.mil/article/10...

$3000+ tablets that weigh several pounds do not make sense in many roles.

What does make sense is $200 - $400 Android smartphones/tablets with waterproof shock cases that weigh less than a pound with better battery life.

Former CIA agents are not current CIA agents.

As the Cambodian situation became worse, the Cambodian government sought military assistance from the United States and South Vietnam.

-- Across the Border: Sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos

This is an official military source that misses the point that the "government" of Cambodia was not de facto sovereign at the time, nor legal..the request came from Lon Nol, a pro-US general who was just installed in a coup d'etat.

The US was out of South Vietnam in 1975. That is nearly 40 years ago. I doubt there are many CIA agents that were working in Vietnam still working at the CIA.

They'd be 60-70 years old but it's still quite possible. The CIA doesn't really publish lists of employees so this can be checked.

Iran Contra is also well into the past. And once again, a former Director of CIA is not a current Director or employee.

The internet certainly did exist in the 1980s.

Yes, but mostly as U.S-only network, it would be more accurate to say the "Internet did not exist in the way we know it today". CERN and Europe didn't largely uplink into the TCP/IP-based internet until 1989..post-Berlin Wall.

The real contributor to freedom was the CIA, not the small Tails project only a few years old.

If you think that the CIA contributed to "freedom" then you speak propaganda only. The CIA contributed to realpolitik, and only came to create "freedom" in places that mattered to the U.S.'s strategic interests. In the same way the KGB helped enforce a "prison of states" around Eastern Europe, the CIA helped foster a similar situation in South America. See Guatemalan Coup . Let's not forget also about Chile and Grenada. Also, the CIA helped stifle dissent in America and reduce American political freedoms during thist ime. Reference: Operation CHAOS

Former CIA agents are not current CIA agents.

As the Cambodian situation became worse, the Cambodian government sought military assistance from the United States and South Vietnam.

-- Across the Border: Sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos

The US was out of South Vietnam in 1975. That is nearly 40 years ago. I doubt there are many CIA agents that were working in Vietnam still working at the CIA. Iran Contra is also well into the past. And once again, a former Director of CIA is not a current Director or employee.

The internet certainly did exist in the 1980s. But you basically concede my point then. Tails had nothing to do with the actual fight for freedom that was the struggle against communism let alone the Nazis. The real contributor to freedom was the CIA, not the small Tails project only a few years old.

I look forward to you identifying the relevant facts. You would then be less irritated and probably no be proposing such nonsense.

That the NSA also has mind reading and mind altering radar that can hack the mind, which has no firewall, equally as efficiently as any computer system.

And they're using it today to fuck with society and to warrantlessly spy on and sabotage people.

First, read this article by Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas, which basically examples all this in 1997. http://strategicstudiesinstitu...

Then read the original article about NSA Remote Neural Monitoring and Electronic Brain Link, published in Nexus Magazine in 1996 by John St Clair Akwei: http://www.oregonstatehospital...

Then realize that you're all mindless fucks living in the USA government Matrix system, under the full control of the Department of Defense.

NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake even says that the USA constitution was revoked in 2001, and today we're operating under marshals law. Literally, and these guys have implemented a fake system to make the public believe they still have rights when in fact the government cannot be properly challenged because they're in complete and total control: http://www.ora.tv/offthegrid/n...

More details on the thousands of victims who've been attacked by this mind hacking tool on http://www.obamasweapon.com/ originally deployed in all radar systems in 1976, called TAMI or Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface. Allows full remote control and reading of all human thoughts and functions. Psychic attacks, paranormal and psychosis simulations, all being used today.

The following has a good summary of what lead up to the Pacific War but to summarize... the US embargo was not coupled with any reasonable demands that Japan take. The final embargos came after the Japanese invasion of French Indochina but the demands were over territory that the US had shown no significant previous interest in and had no strategic or economic interest in (China). The American demands to give up on their empire, coupled with the embargo, was telling Japan that they needed to submit to subservient economic dependence on the United States. No country would accept those demands because that's tantamount to giving up your sovereignty.

http://www.strategicstudiesins...

The Army and Air Force need to be merged and the Navy, Coast Guard, and Marines need to be merged.

What planet do you live on that there's any significant overlap between the Army and the Air Force?

I live just down the road a piece from Joint Base Lewis McChord. Army Base and Airforce base under one
command structure. It use to be Fort Lewis and McChord Airforce Base. Now it is run as one.

In fact it might be useful for you to look up the term "Joint Base" in google, or visit the Wiki Page.
Strict division of duties is old school thinking.

The air force does not like to provide air to ground combat support for the Army, (they would love to get rid of all the Warthogs), and they really don't like flying cargo or troops around, but what The Air Force fears most of all is that the Army might actually get a fixed wing aircraft bigger than a piper cub.

You're a bit late with that one. Try this instead.

America's First Drug Epidemic 1850-1914

As more and more Americans patronized opium dens and became addicted, communities responded with alarm and concern, especially when women and young people were among the curious. Cities and then states began passing anti-drug laws. Opium use spread steadily east, until by the 1890s, opium dens were commonplace in American life. ...

As one turn-of-the-century morphine addict bemoaned, "At first, habit only binds us with silken threads, but alas! these threads finally change to links of strongest steel."

HISTORY of OPIATES

1903 Heroin addiction in the United States rises at an alarming rate.
1905 U.S. Congress bans opium.
1909 The first federal drug prohibition passes in the U.S., outlawing the importation of opium and opiates.

Relief efforts = protecting citizens. And it wasn't just National Guard. It was regular Army, Navy and Air Force too.

http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/airpower/Pages/box090505katlist.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_relief#Navy

http://www.army.mil/article/45029/The_Army_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina/

Calling me a liar on this is complete bullshit. You got caught spewing ignorance and stupidity. Take your medicine.

Here's some recent articles on the topic of shaping light beams so it curves or has extended focal range or dark spots

by the way the "lightning" redirection problem we originally of interest not as a weapon but to create virtual lightning rod arrays in the air to discharge destructive lightning harmlessly. Why? well back then there had been a few great arpanet outages and people realized how vulnerable we were ebcoming to lightning stikes as we depending on the ubiquitous internet to always be able to route around problems. turned out this was a weak point. I suspect it may have become less of one now in part because optical fiber now carries stuff. But I don't know. But it was the utility companies paying for the research at the time.

lightning weapon using self filamentation:
http://www.army.mil/article/82262/Picatinny_engineers_set_phasers_to__fry_/

curving light "beams"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16936-curved-laser-beams-could-help-tame-thunderclouds.html

forming a pseudo non-diffrating "beam" --- which is a totally wrong way to describe this.
http://www.mtu.de/en/technologies/engineering_news/others/Menges_Forming_non-diffracting_beams_en.pdf

that too was applied to the lighning problem

even a slashdot articlee referencing that:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/04/15/0147234/curved-laser-beams-could-help-tame-lightning

a patent:
http://www.google.nl/patents/US6937791

Right. This is simply that it's easier to move a shipboard steam/incineration plant to where the toxics are than to move the toxics to an existing plant.

There aren't many such plants. The U.S. Army had a chemical weapons disposal plant until July 2013. It was closed, after it had been used to destroy the US's old stockpiles of chemical weapons. Demolition of the plant is underway.

Side Note and Refs:

It is probably this very reason, the inadequacy of projecting military might, that has driven the growing panopticon of gov't and private intelligenc operators.
The Military has been reduced to an extraction machine; it serves no political ends. Only opportunism and corruption.

Paired to a means of remotely controlling the events the intel describes, that circle completes the square in the wet-dreams of the puppeteer.

Some Refs:
David Galula's classic work, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/JanFeb06/Petraeus1.pdf
http://www.army.mil/professionalWriting/volumes/volume4/april_2006/4_06_2.html

Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq
"General John R. Galvin observed that "[a]n officer's effectiveness and chance for success, now and in the future, depend not only on his character, knowledge, and skills, but also, and more than ever before, on his ability to understand the changing environment of conflict"

I suspect that its in the hubris of thinking understanding matters less in the ability to shape the environment of conflict regardless of outcome. More $ more time will make some bad thing better regardless of origins or fault!

security/protection, local trust, accepting a 'federal' presence, better services,
  Petraeus issues Afghanistan COIN guidance
By Kevin Baron Published: August 2, 2010
  his co-authored 2006 Army counterinsurgency manual,
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/coin/repository/FM_3-24.pdf
http://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.113197.1280774784!/menu/standard/file/COMISAF's%20COIN%20Guidance%2C%201Aug10.pdf
www.fpri.org/enotes/200704.mills.afghanistancounterinsurgency.html
tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-BuildingAfghan.pdf
https://frdl.train.army.milcatalogview100.atsc6a489d10-160c-4301-90d5-377e5fe38156-13111677814413-24.2chap8.htm/

Side Note and Refs:

It is probably this very reason, the inadequacy of projecting military might, that has driven the growing panopticon of gov't and private intelligenc operators.
The Military has been reduced to an extraction machine; it serves no political ends. Only opportunism and corruption.

Paired to a means of remotely controlling the events the intel describes, that circle completes the square in the wet-dreams of the puppeteer.

Some Refs:
David Galula's classic work, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/JanFeb06/Petraeus1.pdf
http://www.army.mil/professionalWriting/volumes/volume4/april_2006/4_06_2.html

Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq
"General John R. Galvin observed that "[a]n officer's effectiveness and chance for success, now and in the future, depend not only on his character, knowledge, and skills, but also, and more than ever before, on his ability to understand the changing environment of conflict"

I suspect that its in the hubris of thinking understanding matters less in the ability to shape the environment of conflict regardless of outcome. More $ more time will make some bad thing better regardless of origins or fault!

security/protection, local trust, accepting a 'federal' presence, better services,
  Petraeus issues Afghanistan COIN guidance
By Kevin Baron Published: August 2, 2010
  his co-authored 2006 Army counterinsurgency manual,
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/coin/repository/FM_3-24.pdf
http://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.113197.1280774784!/menu/standard/file/COMISAF's%20COIN%20Guidance%2C%201Aug10.pdf
www.fpri.org/enotes/200704.mills.afghanistancounterinsurgency.html
tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-BuildingAfghan.pdf
https://frdl.train.army.milcatalogview100.atsc6a489d10-160c-4301-90d5-377e5fe38156-13111677814413-24.2chap8.htm/

Side Note and Refs:

It is probably this very reason, the inadequacy of projecting military might, that has driven the growing panopticon of gov't and private intelligenc operators.
The Military has been reduced to an extraction machine; it serves no political ends. Only opportunism and corruption.

Paired to a means of remotely controlling the events the intel describes, that circle completes the square in the wet-dreams of the puppeteer.

Some Refs:
David Galula's classic work, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/JanFeb06/Petraeus1.pdf
http://www.army.mil/professionalWriting/volumes/volume4/april_2006/4_06_2.html

Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq
"General John R. Galvin observed that "[a]n officer's effectiveness and chance for success, now and in the future, depend not only on his character, knowledge, and skills, but also, and more than ever before, on his ability to understand the changing environment of conflict"

I suspect that its in the hubris of thinking understanding matters less in the ability to shape the environment of conflict regardless of outcome. More $ more time will make some bad thing better regardless of origins or fault!

security/protection, local trust, accepting a 'federal' presence, better services,
  Petraeus issues Afghanistan COIN guidance
By Kevin Baron Published: August 2, 2010
  his co-authored 2006 Army counterinsurgency manual,
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/coin/repository/FM_3-24.pdf
http://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.113197.1280774784!/menu/standard/file/COMISAF's%20COIN%20Guidance%2C%201Aug10.pdf
www.fpri.org/enotes/200704.mills.afghanistancounterinsurgency.html
tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-BuildingAfghan.pdf
https://frdl.train.army.milcatalogview100.atsc6a489d10-160c-4301-90d5-377e5fe38156-13111677814413-24.2chap8.htm/

From what I can tell, the 43 year old FSTC-CW-07-03-70 or something similar is no longer part of Army doctrine. However, you are welcome to look for yourself. Whether the term "assault rifle" was part of common military parlance in the Vietnam era, I don't know, but it certainly is not now.

The definitive source for Army terms is FM 1-02 Operational Terms and Graphics (where you can find the definition of "assault", for example). It does not contain "assault rifle", however its scope is operational rather than tactical, so largely does not deal with weapon nomenclature.

http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-the-day-how-north-korea-could-destroy-seoul-in-two-hours-2010-5?op=1

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub771.pdf

"The combination of North Korea’s long economic
decline and enhanced U.S. and South Korean military
capabilities has diminished the ability of North
Korea to launch a successful invasion of South Korea.
Nonetheless, the KPA retains the ability to inflict heavy
casualties and collateral damage, largely through
the use of massed long-range artillery. In effect,
Pyongyang’s most credible conventional threat is to
devastate Seoul (and a good portion of South Korea)
rather than to seize and hold it."

NK's army is mostly an aging joke. Big, but obsolete and poorly maintained and supplied. If military action were to begin, the large volume of artillery already aimed at Seoul would kick off in a short-range storm of shells. Given the disrepute given to their condition, many of those pieces will fail, but given the vast number of pieces, it will still amount to a large amount of damage before they can be stopped. Seoul won't be "wiped out", but a lot of civilians will be hurt or killed in that opening hour of conflict. It would be followed by NK being crushed since NK's military is heavily outclassed by both SK and the US presence.

The problem has always been south korean civilians held hostage by those guns. The missiles and nukes aren't a significant threat (right now).

You started out promising, " let's take a look at your facts," but then you state this, "the Taliban, if that's what this man is referring to, were supported by the U.S. to fight the Soviets." Wrong, incredibly wrong. First, the US didn't support the Taliban fighting the Soviets since the Taliban formed during the Afghan civil war that occurred after the Soviets left Afghanistan. Second, it doesn't state what you claim in that story. The Taliban was never a US ally, but it did become an enemy.

That also makes you wrong about "they switched alliances."

Historians tend to be pretty clear about who is regarded as the enemy in a war, and use that word in the narrative as appropriate. Example: The Failures of Historiography

If a conflict is occurring between two other countries or factions, apart from your own, and you and your country are in no way involved, there really isn't a point where one of them is an enemy, unless they attack. If you can't call the side attacking your country, killing your countrymen, and trying to overthrow your way of life, "the enemy," that leads to some interesting questions.

But when you agree to join the military and have a security clearance you make promises to protect that information.

Not that I see:

Army Oath of Enlistment:

I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

Army Oath of Office (for commissioned officers):

"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God." (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)

No where in either oath are secret documents or information so much as mentioned; conversely, both oaths seem to place support and defense of the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, above all other duties. Matter of fact, obeying orders appears to have been an afterthought.

US AMRIID?

That is a great post, very informative.

For anyone that's interested, here are a few links about medical advances linked to armed conflict.

Medical legacy forged by war
Medical Advances Save Lives in Combat
Medical Treatment Advances Help Injured Soldiers

Does the military actually use videogames for desensitization? I can't find anything about that. From what I can tell their desensitization approach is much more about meatspace practice to make certain actions feel rote and normal.

The only mention I can find of the military seriously using videogames is more along the lines of educational games, e.g. simulation games to train Arabic learners how to interact in social situations.

Well I think there was this cave in the Midwest (one of the largest underground cave systems). I saw a special on it from Nat Geo or Discovery or History or A&E. It was rumored at some point this facility had paper files on every person in the United States in rows and rows of giant filing cabinets. So it is very likely that this has been going on for a long time and you are absolutely correct it could go way deeper than just metadata. See PRISM. What is being done with all that info. I cannot really say for sure.

I spent a few hours raging at the issue yesterday and decided it would be better to just bury my head back in the sand until we get more information.

By the way some links of the facility I think I remember... it could be an annex to this or another one. This looks like its up for grabs on the real estate market though... and relatively cheap. Crazy how the world changes. Because this place use to be one of our top secret places during the cold war.

http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=FTWOR713005001
http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/MayJun99/MS353.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchison_Storage_Facility

There is a video of a truck driver driving through and delivering supplies leaked on a conspiracy nut site. But I think it is from after when the facility started to be decommissioned.

The facility I remember was rumored to be extremely large and indeed big enough to hold a file folder on everyone at the time 1980's. I suppose the government had to upgrade at some point.

I really wish I could afford a place like that... I would so have an underground lair if I could.

Here is the official oath, directly from the Army's website.

I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

You see, first he swears to defend the Constitution and then to obey.

By his lights, the PFC was defending the Constitution against domestic enemies.

The Army's already working things to work in GPS-denied environments. Here's a story. Full disclosure, I work at the Army's R&D command.

Here it is: http://geo.usace.army.mil/pgis/f?p=397:12:

So, you click on it and there's choices like login or "request new username". To get one, you fill in various identifying information, including what kind of organization you're with and why you need access. I expect that responding differently to the type of organization question gets you different levels of access. I expect that the "hack" was that someone lied in answering one or more of the questions, and whoever set up the access gave the person more than appropriate access because there was insufficient credential checking for a higher level of access, or because the person just setup the account without doing some required check. It looks like there's some level of public access allowed, and there's even an available choice of "foreign government" as organization type.

I picture it as someone, possibly foreign national, possibly Chinese, who has some connection to a US University and said he needed access to engineering-level data for failure analysis. Is that a "hack"? Is that an "act of war"?

1 out of 3 dollars spent is for "national defense." 33% is a pretty big "small" portion right off that bat.

That's a good example of what I refer to. US military spending is epic in its waste. For example, I was part of a non profit team that put an airship prototype up to 95k feet, which is a world record. The total cost over a number of years was somewhere around a hundred thousand dollars. The US military has paid over a hundred million dollars for an airship that failed in flight. Three orders of magnitude less cost and something that actually worked.

But then US military procurement is massively corrupt. For example, small caliber ammunition was for a time manufactured by a single plant in Missouri. When it couldn't keep up with ammunition demand after the Iraqi invasion in 2003, they finally opened up ammunition production to competition. This paper describes the issues surrounding that shortage. From it (emphasized phrase by me):

The reduction in funding during these years also affected the United Statesâ(TM) ammunition production capability resulting in a steady decline since the Cold War. Since 1989, there has been a 68% decrease in the capacity of the munitions industrial base. The number of facilities mirrors this decline. Government owned facilities fell from 28 to 13, and privately owned facilities decreased from 163 to 69. The production of small arms ammunition has been consolidated in a single government owned facility at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant at Lake City, Missouri.

It's also worth noting that defense spending is not 1 in 3 dollars, but rather 1 in 5 due to the presence of considerable entitlement spending into Social Security and Medicare (neither which serve a national interest I might add).

Who would have guessed the US was engaged in offensive cyber operations?

The only problem with that is that the military is made of common citizens. Not rich fat cats or people with power. The commander-in-chief (President) is the highest person in charge but ranks second to the Constitution. The oath of service is to the Constitution first. Check it out: http://www.army.mil/values/oath.html

In my opinion, the US Army will mostly side with the people if there was a domestic conflict. I have no idea about the police but they seem to always be combative with citizens. I doubt that will change.

War is full of stories of individual soldiers facing down numerous enemies. Take for example:
Army Dentist who was found with 98 dead enemy soldiers in front of him. Later study shows that he was shot 76 times, and speculation is that 24 of those bullet wounds were while he was still alive.
Daniel Inouye Killed 25 enemy soldiers in WWII. Literally gave his right arm to kill Nazis.
Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart. Yes, there were two of them, fighting hundreds of armed enemies. They killed over 20 bad guys, while armed with a semi-automatic rifle, a bolt action rifle, and pistols.
Or you could just go read the listing of MoH citations. There's thousands of men who took it upon themselves to take on larger enemy forces. No regard for their personal safety, many made the ultimate sacrifice and died

You can get college credit for your military service.

http://aarts.army.mil/

You need SSN, Birthdate, and Basic active service date. Many colleges will grant you at least some credit, based upon what you did in the military of course. Lol mine only recommends 4 credit hours for my 5 years in service. But that was because I was a grunt. If you were in a technical position, it can be very different.

Note: This is only for enlisted, officers have something different.

Actually the Regulations are the formal definitions as to how the training and operating procedures are to be conducted; for example, Army Regulation 380-5 is the Department of the Army Information Security Program. In the begining it was just Baron Von Steuben's Drill Manual, Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States.

You're not offering proof --- I stand by what I say, based upon my very own military experience --- and I didn't even bother to mention that those closest to Lee Oswald never were aware of his spending any time at the firing ranger, other than the mandatory qualififying, when he failed and they would pencil him in. sgt_doom

I'm not saying that they aren't mistaken or lying about seeing Oswald I'm just saying that there is nothing about that story that seems implasable on the face of it meerly because of a women on the firing range. Although the more I think about it and with regards to what the other commenter said, I can't think of any reason that a woman couldn't have been an RO given that WAC's where armorers during WWII (also a hard job to do if you can't fire the weapon in testing). Some of the basic of the story check out as women did serve overseas during during that time frame and someone bending the rules (or breaking them outright) isn't exactly unheard of in the military so I'm just saying that you can't dismiss it on those two grounds. There are tons of other better reasons to do so.

The US Army's ERP project is going pretty well, though it's had it's problems along the way. The project, called General Fund Enterprise Business System or GFEBS, is nearing completion.

It is certainly not the business of a private to determine...

Sir, you are wrong. In the United States Military, and the Army specifically I was made to recite our creeds every day through training. The Army training regimen consists of instilling belief in the 7 core values: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. Can you honestly tell me that what Bradley Manning did was not the embodiment of what he was trained for? As a vet I will tell you I respect him more than most of the rest of his chain of command. He wasn't perfect - but he had the courage to do something that should have been done.

"all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing..."

Source: Vet and this little thing: http://www.army.mil/values/

You mean like the Port of South Louisiana? Ports are a lot more automated than they used to be. They don't need nearly as many people to work. New Orleans itself is not particularly essential to the function of the port; most of the facilities are located upriver from the city. If you look at one of the sources cited in that article (here, though data are from 2004), you'll note that the ports of Baton Rouge, Plaquemines, South Louisiana, and New Orleans added together (reasonable, because they are all physically contiguous) account for almost three times the shipping volume of the Port of NY/NJ.

Then why are not all human officers required to have their eyes replaced with cybernetic implants?

The U.S. Army is already there with the Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Program. "To increase combat readiness, the Department of Defense has established the Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Program (WRESP) which allows eligible active-duty soldiers to receive laser refractive eye surgery. The goal is to minimize or eliminate the need to wear corrective eyewear."

Not all of these names were redacted.

And yet the Pentagon has never been able to show a single instance where an "informant" or anyone else was hurt because of WikiLeaks.

But more to the point, where was all this Concern over human life when the U.S. was lying its way into multiple wars of choice that resulted in over a million deaths?

For Mr Manning this is very bad indeed.

According to the witch hunters, or those wanting to ignore the fact that Manning has done more to uphold his Oath of Office than those prosecuting him, if the allegations are correct?

"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

I'm not saying you can't do serious work this way, since the Army has used Preventative Maintenance Monthly as one of their most successful ways of disseminating general technical knowledge.

But I think it's going to have similar problems as TV journalism, which, except for C-SPAN, is generally awful.

Pull the story. Get your facts straight. This farmer needs education from a local co-op extention.

Cyanide poisoning in veterinary medicine:

Cyanides are found in plants, fumigants, soil sterilizers, fertilizers, and rodenticides (eg, calcium cyanomide). Toxicity can result from improper or malicious use, but in the case of livestock, the most frequent cause is ingestion of plants that contain cyanogenic glycosides. These include Triglochin maritima (arrow grass), Hoecus lunatus (velvet grass), Sorghum spp (Johnson grass, Sudan grass, common sorghum), Prunus spp (apricot, peach, chokecherry, pincherry, wild black cherry), Sambucus canadensis (elderberry), Pyrus malus (apple), Zea mays (corn), and Linum spp (flax). The seeds (pits) of several plants such as the peach have been the source of cyanogenic glycosides in many cases. Eucalyptus spp , kept as ornamental houseplants, have been implicated in deaths of small animals.

The cyanogenic glycosides in plants yield free hydrocyanic acid (HCN), otherwise known as prussic acid, when hydrolyzed by Î-glycosidase or when other plant cell structure is disrupted or damaged, eg, by freezing, chopping, or chewing. Microbial action in the rumen can further release free cyanide.

Apple and other fruit trees contain prussic acid glycosides in leaves and seeds but little or none in the fleshy part of the fruits. In Sorghum spp forage grasses, leaves usually produce 2-25 times more HCN than do stems; seeds contain none. New shoots from young, rapidly growing plants often contain high concentrations of prussic acid glycosides.
The cyanogenic glycoside potential is slow to decrease in drought-stricken plants containing mostly leaves. Grazing stunted plants during drought is the most common cause of poisoning of livestock by plants that produce prussic acid.

Frozen plants may release high concentrations of prussic acid for several days. After wilting, release of prussic acid from plant tissues declines. Dead plants have less free prussic acid. When plant tops have been frosted, new shoots may regrow at the base; these can be dangerous because of glycoside content and because livestock selectively graze them.

Ruminants are more susceptible than monogastric animals, and cattle slightly more so than sheep. Hereford cattle have been reported to be less susceptible than other breeds.

Cyanide Poisoning: Introduction

A history of cyanide poisoning generally, and a good read: Cyanide Poisoning

Some common cyanogenic edible plants reported to cause cyanide poisoning include cassava, sorghum, sweet potatoes, yams, maize, millet, bamboo, sugarcane, peas, lima beans, soybeans, almond kernels, lemons, limes, apples, pears, peach, chokecherries, apricots, prunes, and plums. Cassava (manioc) and sorghum are staple foods for hundreds of millions of people in many tropical countries and are blamed in part for the high incidence of central and peripheral neuropathies in those areas.

Since the time of ancient Egypt, plants containing cyanide derivatives, such as bitter almonds, cherry laurel leaves, peach pits, and cassava, have been used as lethal poisons. Peach pits used in judicial executions by the ancient Egyptians are on display in the Louvre Museum, Paris, and an Egyptian papyrus refers to the "penalty of the peach."

I don't need to explain why training terrorists might not be the best idea for our long term interest, right?

Yes! Why didn't the pentagon think of this? Training hackers is a terrible idea.

Oh no.. it's worse than that. It looks like they are also training people how to use guns, fly airplanes, and use armed ships

Googled...

http://ecso.swf.usace.army.mil/PublicReview/Oakland%20-%20HEMXR%20_eagle_%20FEA%2020090810.pdf

HEMXRIS Occupants
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HEMXRISs are designed so that the radiation dose levels within the driverâ(TM)s cab and at the inspector work-stations (systems operators) will be below 0.00005 rem in any one hour. With an annual work limit of 2,000 hours, this hourly dose limit will prevent annual cumulative exposures that exceed the limit of 0.1 rem in a year.

See Military Relations Between the United States and Canada 1339-1945 by Colonel Stanly W. Dziuban, pp. 278-280.

Thanks for teaching me something today.

So hypothetically if the Air Force saw something suspicious on portions of their surveillance that happened over the US then the Air Force would hand that information off to which ever law enforcement agency has jurisdiction.

At which point all of the evidence should be thrown out and the individual who did the spying should be dishonorably discharged for violating the constitution that they swore an oath to uphold. For reference see the Oath of Enlistment and Oath of Office as well as the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. This may seem a bit harsh, but this seems to be yet another instance of government slowly eroding our rights. All rights are important and all should be preserved, even the ones you may not agree with.

As you say, the severity/frequency numbers for military brain trauma are different than those for athletes; but I mentioned it because the military has, of late, become interested in studying traumatic brain injuries, as well as developing instruments for measuring exactly what sorts of acceleration events are actually occurring in the field.

The DVBIC chaps have also been expanding their original focus, mostly on veterans with penetrating or massive-shock injury, to include cases of multiple modest blast exposure.

My understanding is that this is partially a matter of greater awareness of traumatic brain injury even at fairly low force levels, and partially a product of improved protective equipment and field medicine capabilities. A fair few more of the blast-trauma patients who would have just bled out in earlier wars are now living long enough to potentially experience chronic neurological problems.

The future is already here, at least for the US and GPS. Other countries either already have the same capability or have it in the works. The scary part is going to be when the round can be configured to us an IR sensor to steer itself into the largest truck within 50m of the target GPS coordinates. Or concentration of people. It's all gonna end up costing a few hundred bucks, too.

Anyone who regularly consults Internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison

Such a law would be a joy for military recruiters. Click the links below to be put onto a French terrorist watch list!
Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines!
Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines!

I suppose the French President meant violence he does not agree with should be prosecuted. That makes more sense.

I wasn't aware this was a controversial claim.

The US Army says they did, and I think it's a bit far from the events in question to be propaganda.

If you prefer a non-governmental source, here's something I found on Google books.

Just one example. There are others, but I'm not at work to have easy access to anything. Power and energy in general is a major push for the Army, and they've worked on hydrogen, solar, better batteries, etc. Full disclosure: I work for the Army R&D command in public affairs.

Prisoners who had expressed a desire not to be repatriated were sent to a temporary camp at P'anmunjom. There government representatives were allowed to talk with their respective nationals under the impartial supervision of a five-member Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission. The interviews served to ensure that soldiers had not been coerced into refusing repatriation. They also gave the governments involved the opportunity to try and persuade their nationals to return home. When the interviews were over, each man was free to chose whether or not he wanted to return home. ... Of the 359 UN personnel sent to the camp, ten decided to come home, two decided to go to neutral third countries, and the remainder-347-decided to live among the Communists. Included among these were twenty-one Americans who chose to remain with their captors. In contrast, 22,604 Communist soldiers initially chose not to be repatriated. After being processed by the Repatriation Commission, 628 relented and returned home.

The Korean War: Years of Stalemate

What model railroad scale is the closest? I have no interest in CA, so I don't know if 1.5 acres makes that bigger than G scale or smaller than Z scale or something in between. The live steamers might want to turn it into a live steam park, if allowed. Around here, the live steam parks are not quite as elaborate as this sounds.

You don't have to have an interest in CA to read the first few paragraphs of the article:

its 1.5 acres replicate a 1,600-square-mile area that runs from the Pacific Ocean to the Sacramento Delta

1600 mi^2 is 1024000 acres, so it's a 1.5:1024000 (or 1:682666) scale if you believe the article.

However, the bay model's webpage tells a different story:

http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/bmjourney/the_model/facts.html

Model Scales (Model to the Bay)

Horizontal: 1 foot = 1000 feet
Vertical: 1 foot = 100 feet
Velocity: 1 foot/ second = 10 feet/second

So using their numbers, it's a 1:1000 scale.

I have no interest in model trains, but Wikipedia tells me that Z-scale is the smallest commercially available scale, and is 1:220, so this is a much smaller scale than any model train system.

I was going to say the same thing. Here's the official site:

http://www.wsmr.army.mil/PAO/Trinity/Pages/default.aspx