FAMOUS CONTRACTORS THAT SUPPORTED AMERICA'S DEFENSE
Read about a new hero each week:Mary Edwards Walker a North Georgia Notable
The first, and only, woman to receive The Medal of Honor was Dr. Mary E. Walker, a contract surgeon during the Civil War.
Her Medal of Honor citation begins simply "Rank and organization: Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)..." and goes on to list her accomplishments while assisting Union and Confederate casualties. Who was the only woman and only civilian to be recognized for her achievement on the field of battle with a Medal of Honor?
Mary Edwards Walker grew up in rural New York and graduated from Syracuse Medical College in 1855. At this time women were often considered little more than property. One Congregational minister of the era wrote "The power of woman is in her dependence..."
http://ngeorgia.com/people/walker.html
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India: Google Maps Too Graphic
From our friends at the Terrorism Research Center http://www.terrorism.comIndian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam expressed concern Saturday about a free mapping program from Google, warning it could help terrorists by providing satellite photos of potential targets. Google Earth, launched in June this year, allows users to access overlapping satellite photos. Although not all areas are highly detailed, some images are very high resolution, and some show sensitive locations in various countries.
http://www.terrorism.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=WarReports&file=index&view=706
Broken Army Is In Need Of Repair
By Joe GallowayWASHINGTON -- "Armies are fragile institutions and, for all their might, easily broken."
Remember those words? They were written here, in this column, at the end of September 2003. I laid out the recipe for how to break a magnificent Army that had taken nearly two decades to rebuild itself in the wake of the Vietnam debacle. In that early fall two years ago, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was still running victory laps, and the words of his boss, President George W. Bush, were still ringing: "Bring 'em on!" Sadly, those two were, and still are, in charge.
Now they've broken the Army, and after this administration is history, it will take 12 or 15 or 20 years to repair the damage it's inflicted on an institution that our country desperately needs in a century as dangerous as this one.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/103105broken.html
PIRACY IS AS OLD AS THE SHIPPING BUSINESS. FROM CHINA TO THE “NEW WORLD,”
Pirates have roamed the high seas for ages looking for opportunity and fortune. Piracy is big business. The Disney film “Pirates of the Caribbean” cost $125 million to make and grossed more than $305 million in the U.S. alone. Real-life pirates are raking it in as well. The loot per vessel can range from $8 million to $200 million. But modern piracy is not romantic. Organized crime is behind most of the hijackings, which require money, equipment, weapons, planning, experience and contacts with corrupt local officials. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/103105pirates.pdf
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FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight, according to previously classified documents to be released today. Records turned over as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit also indicate that the FBI has investigated hundreds of potential violations related to its use of secret surveillance operations, which have been stepped up dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but are largely hidden from public view. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301352.html?nav=rss_email/components Trafficking in Persons A Czech woman with hopes of making money as a waitress travels to Amsterdam only to be forced to work in a brothel. A Cambodian woman marries and her husband immediately leaves her in a hotel in another village. She learns that the hotel is a brothel and is forced to pay off the price the hotel owner had paid for her. An Albanian mother receives a color television in exchange for one of her sons. http://www.ncjrs.org/spotlight/trafficking/summary.html
Caped teen goes on shooting spree in California An engineer who calls himself the father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles has been arrested and accused of selling U.S. military secrets involving the aircraft to a foreign country, the FBI said. Noshir S. Gowadia, 61, of Haiku was arrested Wednesday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9843441/
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Militants sharing bomb expertise Roadside bombs are growing more powerful and sophisticated because insurgents throughout Iraq have grown adept at sharing information and using expert trainers. "What we're seeing is an increase in the evolutionary pace of IED (improvised explosive device) design," said Ben Venzke, CEO of IntelCenter, a Washington counterterrorism firm contracted by the U.S. military to study insurgent tactics. "It's increasing at a pace we previously haven't seen." http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-10-24-roadside-bombs_x.htm?csp=34
Enemy Body Counts Revived After 31 months of fighting in Iraq, more than half of all American fatalities are now being caused by powerful roadside bombs that blast fiery, lethal shrapnel into the cabins of armored vehicles, confronting every patrol with an unseen, menacing adversary that is accelerating the U.S. death toll. U.S. military officials, analysts and militants themselves say insurgents have learned to adapt to U.S. defensive measures by using bigger, more sophisticated and better-concealed bombs known officially as improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. They are sometimes made with multiple artillery shells and Iranian TNT, sometimes disguised as bricks, boosted with rocket propellant, and detonated by a cell phone or a garage door opener. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501987.html?nav=rss_print/asection Lack of Armor Proves Deadly for Iraqi Army After a string of deadly attacks against Iraqi forces in the spring, American soldiers in the Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad established an operation at their Army base to add armor to the unprotected open-bed trucks used by the Iraqis. But it is a meager enterprise: four Iraqi ironworkers armed with two welding torches and thin sheets of metal. Even as American forces are relying more on Iraqis to fight the insurgency, the Iraqi Army is facing some of the same procurement problems that American troops have experienced in getting adequate armor and other equipment, according to interviews in Iraq with American and Iraqi military officials. But if the Americans have faced an uphill battle in getting vital gear - their shortfalls continue to this day - then their Iraqi counterparts are confronting a herculean task. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/international/middleeast/30armor.html?hp&ex=1130734800&en=24a4ae7bb6426184&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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Service Equipment Review:PolyShok 12 Gauge Anti-Personnel / Breaching AmmoEvaluating ammunition is one of those things that I almost hate to do. Why? Because testing it on inanimate objects is, well, objective. But how it will affect living creatures, animal and human, is subjective. While it's true that physical damage is physical damage and organic systems can only function or survive with a certain amount of physical damage, that "amount" can be drastically affected by the person's psychological, emotional and physical strength. In other words, while one man dies because he thinks he's been shot with a .22, another man keeps fighting even after taking thirty-three 9mm rounds (documented case). In that particular case, a twelve gauge round brought the man down.Shotguns are fantastically destructive weapons. Because of the size of their bore, the payloads that we can load into them can be quite versatile. As a result, we use the shotgun for a collection of purposes from anti-personnel to breaching. Most often we have to have ammunition tailored for the intended use, and it's a rare occasion that you can use ONE kind of ammo for both kinds of work. Well, meet PolyShok: the twelve-gauge ammo that is like no other and is quite adept at both of the specified fields. The rest of the story: http://www.borelliconsulting.com/evals/other/polyshok.htm - - - - - - - - Recreational Equipment Review:Leatherman Super Tool 200Quite some time ago I did a review on the Leatherman XTi: a field tool that was quite versatile but that depended on attachments for quite a bit of that versatility. As I stated in that review, I'm not fond of taking tools in the field if I have to handle - and risk losing - small parts. The Leatherman Super Tool 200 is NOT such a tool. No additional parts to carry; no small parts to lose; it's quite simple as multi-tools go, and that works for me (no comments about me being simple here).Pivoting open to form the handles of the pliers and wire cutters, the Leatherman opens like most traditionally designed multi-tools. Leatherman long ago fixed the problem of sharp metal edges that cut into your hands when you applied pressure to these handles. The walls of the handles are thicker now and have curved edges for greater comfort - which means greater pressure and torque can be applied. Additionally, spring-tension locks secure each blade or tool in the open position, and relieves you of the concern that the tool will fold just as you reach the level of pressure you need. The rest of the story: http://www.borelliconsulting.com/recevals/toolknife/leathermanst200.htm Frank Borelli
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LIFE IS ARBITRARY AND CANNOT BE AVOIDED..OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IS MERCIFUL TO US, HE MAKES PROVISION WHEN WE REQUEST IT AS WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO!LIFE...is often arbitrary... unpredictable... greatly enjoyable... and sometimes tragic... It happens in all of life but never in any area more so than within the area of the Peace Keeper/Warrior... The afternoon news yesterday... The blaring headlines this morning... the tragic news of the intentional taking of the life of a young Peace Keeper on the streets of our neighboring city... Norfolk, VA., shot to death by a man who valued his own freedom more than he respected the life of another human being. In his bid for selfishness he wantonly and intentionally fired a bullet into the head of a police officer doing his job of trying to keep and restore peace for the neighborhood... but among us in all societies there are individuals who value nothing except their own way... no matter who must be destroyed in order for their way to be achieved. The thin line of Peace Keepers has yet another gap where a young man is now missing from duty, family and life. Fresh on the heels of just a month ago when this kind of action was perpetrated against a Chesapeake, Va. officer and his life taken. Now we must mourn still further these tragic and malicious endings of life and career ... and another vital part of our community is battered, broken and taken from us. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/103105chaplain.html
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