Tag: USARMY

Back in June, General Stanley McChrystal lost his command of the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan because of critical quotations attributed to him in a Rolling Stone feature. Apparently, not much has changed in the past two months under replacement General David Petraeus. This week, the Army reportedly dismissed 61-year-old Col. Lawrence Sellin from his staff officer position in Afghanistan after ...

While used and refurb'd electronics have a long history of delivering more than the purchaser bargained for, like assembly-line photos, MI6 documents, or the phone number to Sarah Palin's hair stylist, New Zealand man Chris Ogle's surprise find is a little more troubling. He picked up the above unidentified MP3 player at a thrift shop in Oklahoma for $18 used. On it were 60 files, many of which ...

We're not quite sure how the pitch session went with this one, but it looks like the US Army was so impressed by toymaker Lund and Company's Hydrogen Fuel Rocket that it decided to recruit the company to build a decidedly more lethal version of it. The new system, dubbed the Variable Velocity Weapon System, will apparently be able to be switched between lethal and non-lethal modes, and be ...

The U.S. may have the most fearsome military force in the world, but it seems it's defenseless against popular sites such as MySpace and YouTube. Citing "recreational traffic impacts" the U.S. Defense Department has blocked those sites and 11 others, preventing their access from any DoD-owned computer or network. This means that most soldiers deployed on active duty, far away from their personal ...