Tag: military
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REWIND TO SEPTEMBER 20 2001
The news Friday is that Gen. David Patraeus is saying we’ll be in Iraq for, well, around another decade: Gen. David Petraeus told a congressional delegation visiting the Middle East that success in Iraq will require a U.S. military presence there for about a decade, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said Friday. The commander of U.S.…
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A STORY OF THE ASVAB AND MILITARY RECRUITER INTIMIDATION OF A STUDENT
Over at the Republic of Dogs the other day, Res Publica posted a sample of an Oklahoma license plate showing an eagle in front of the Twin Towers. The pissed looking eagle sports a red band at the base of its throat touting 9-11, to ensure we know what it’s mad about, and to the…
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They have slumber parties??
I’d no idea that the Marines have slumber parties for potential recruits. Settling a highly publicized case in which two military recruiters were accused of rape, the U.S. Marine Corps has agreed to pay two young women $200,000 and change its recruiting practices in Northern California. The assaults allegedly occurred in 2004, when the two…