Tag: Defense Department

On Friday night, the United States, France and the UK launched a unified offensive against Syrian targets alleged to be a part of the nation’s chemical weapons infrastructure. Russia, who has been providing direct military support to Bashar al Assad’s Syrian regime, claimed in the days preceding the attack that they would defend Syrian assets […]

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Tuesday, mandating that the Defense, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security departments work to develop a joint action plan to ensure all veterans separating from service have access to mental health services for a year after their separation from active duty, regardless of their service connected disability […]

An amended executive order gave the Defense Department the authority to recall up to 1,000 retired pilots to address a personnel shortage. The Air Force says it doesn’t currently intend to recall those pilots however. The Air Force says it doesn’t plan to use new authority granted by an amended executive order to recall retired […]

ABC News has reported that the scandal involving the publishing nude photos of female members in the military was reported to the Pentagon months before. In an anonymous survey conducted by the military in 2016, sexual harassment and assault, over 6000 female military members complained about the practice. The survey was sent to 735,000 military […]

In the two years since a ceasefire agreement ended large-scale fighting between the Ukrainian Army and pro-Russian rebels controlling a large portion of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, things remained fairly quiet, but as violence has once again been increasing in the region, the United States Defense Department made a statement in support […]

Defense Department records show the majority of their contractors in Afghanistan today (more than 12,00) are providing logistics and maintenance services, to both American and Afghan troops.

Using a robot to clear a hazard, from a Combat Engineer perspective, makes perfect sense. Why endanger further innocent lives for the sake of a bad guy?

Last month, a detainee transferred under Obama’s administration, Syrian Jihad Ahmed Diyab, disappeared from Uruguay after potentially violating a travel ban that was part of the terms of his release.

“The Apache strike destroyed a Daesh vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) near Qayyarah, Iraq,” he added. Qayyarah is south of Mosul, the Daesh’s main stronghold in Iraq.

Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter sees a variety of missions for the Pentagon’s new, secretive space center — and that includes fighting the Islamic State. The Pentagon chief said Thursday that the new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center established by the Defense Department last fall has a role not only in preparing for potential […]

It seems that a civilian employee with the National Guard did not complete the required DoD and DA employee training to use a government computer or network. I’m sure that someone is asking for pre-dated certificates on; ethics and compliance, ethical decision-making, business fraud, end-user network and computer use training. I may have missed a few […]

President Barack Obama has refused to send any suspected terrorists captured overseas to the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But if the U.S. starts seizing more militants in expanded military operations, where will they go, who will hold them and where will they be tried? Those are questions that worry legal experts, lawmakers and […]