May 28, 2007
Find a moment today to make out a check to:
Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund
P.O. Box 3968, Gaithersburg, MD 20885-3968
The name of the fund speaks for itself. You can find out the full story of this worthwhile organization on the CFSRF web site. You can donate directly through the website with PayPal.
May 12, 2007
DARPA has worked with Carnegie-Mellon U. to produce an awesome new autonomous military truck. This is no fragile laboratory curiosity — its a six ton behemoth that moves out, up and over whatever gets in its way.
The Daily Eclectic Blog has a good write up with video and links.
May 2, 2007
The U.S. military has a new regulation that drastically restricts posting to Internet sites by active duty personnel, Army Civilians and Contractors. Some of the news stories about Army Regulation 530-1: Operations Security (OPSEC) predict the end of the milblogs. That would be very unfortunate since milblogging has been one of the primary sources of unbiased information from the war zones, providing real time facts to counter the generally anti-war slant of much of the traditional media.
The Army News Release about the revised AR justifies the crack down on the basis of inadvertant leaks of information that could be helpful to adversaries.
Here is a good article about AR 530-1 from Wired News:
Milblogging.com is a service that provides a portal to a large number of military blogs, as noted on the Military Resources — Portals and Other page of Olive-Drab.com.
