The big news tonight is that Sen. Barack Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.
But another news item of immense import surfaced today as well: the agreement by the Iraqi and American governments on a deadline for the withdrawal of most U.S. troops by 2011.
Now, aside from [...]

If I were to start a gang, I would name it FM 3-24.
Just FYI.

Okay, so we only made it through three e-mails last time. I have 61 in my inbox. Fortunately, I don’t have to do all of them — just the oldest and worth saving.
Next up:
An item entitled “Watch ‘Charlie Rose – An hour with General David Petraeus’” I sent myself through Google Reader on 10 SEP [...]

The Austin Chronicle is reporting that:
Saturday night, Tim Mahoney and [Speaker of the House Tom Craddick crony] Harrison Keller qualified for a runoff election in the race for Austin Community College Board of Trustees, with the former getting 48.5% of the vote and the latter taking 33%. Today, Keller decided to withdraw . . . [...]

Interesting article in April’s Armed Forces Journal.
Lt. Col. Edith A Disler, an associate professor of English and deputy head of the Department of English at the Air Force Academy, argues that the Air Force is attempting to reassert its masculinity through language.
Essentially, she argues that two prominent, rather recent linguistic changes or additions have [...]

I just had to re-post this:
1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
2. Incoming fire has the right of way.
3. Don’t look conspicuous, it draws fire.
4. There is always a way, and it usually doesn’t work.
5. The problem with the easy way out is that it has already been mined.
6. Try to look [...]

I think this is great.
Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
Gates said he expected Petraeus to make the shift in late summer or early fall. [...]

The U.S. Air Force’s first stealth fighter and one of the services’ most attractive planes (especially if you’ve ever seen one fly overhead), the F-117 Nighthawk, will be retired April 21st.
[Danger Room]

In a Washington Post story today about how Senator Hillary Clinton tends to “veer to the dark side” in her speeches, she is quoted as retelling the story of a military spouse who lost her husband in Iraq:
In another story, retold recently in Youngstown, Ohio, she describes a “young woman who lost her husband in [...]

Religious right wingnuts American Family Association are attempting to get the military to stop selling Playboy and Penthouse wherever fine reading material is sold on bases.
By law, most skin mags can’t be sold in military stores. Playboy and Penthouse aren’t deemed scandalous enough to fall under those regulations, though.
When I was in Air Force technical [...]