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  • Airman contributes to advancement of Afghan women

    04/26/2010 6:20:24 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 224+ views
    Air Force News ^ | Staff Sgt. Steve Grever, USAF
    4/26/2010 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Recent efforts by Airmen and their coalition partners have led to opportunities for women in Afghanistan to serve as commissioned officers in the Afghan National Army. Lt. Col. Lisa Pike, assigned to the Air Force Manpower, Services and Personnel Directorate, contributed to standing up the first Afghan Female Officer Candidate Course during her recent deployment to Afghanistan. Colonel Pike served as the chief of staff for the Combined Training Advisory Group-Army, a subordinate command of the NATO Training Mission and Combined Security Transition Command. Colonel Pike said her mission focused on...
  • Great Planes that never were

    08/15/2008 3:31:20 PM PDT · by valkyry1 · 143 replies · 988+ views
    Republic XF-12 Rainbow ^ | 08-15-2008 | Self
    I have been wanting to get this topic on airplanes going for awhile. I hope some of you find an interest also.
  • World's nations will shoot for the moon in the next decade

    03/05/2006 5:09:20 PM PST · by TheGoodBoy · 14 replies · 547+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, March 5, 2006 | Keay Davidson
    In the "space race" of the early 1960s, when reporters asked U.S. rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun what he expected to find on the moon, he jokingly replied: "Russians." Nowadays, his answer might be: "Indians, Chinese, Japanese and Europeans." India, China, Japan and Europe are busy launching, or planning to launch, robotic spaceships to the moon and points beyond.
  • Study group prepares Soldiers for promotion board

    09/01/2005 7:08:01 PM PDT · by Calpernia · 2 replies · 384+ views
    Brigade PAO ^ | 09.01.2005 at 10:59am | Division Support
    CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Task Force Baghdad Soldiers at Camp Taji are being given the opportunity to advance to sergeant or staff sergeant, even while deployed. The standard is the same here as it is back at home station: prospective noncommissioned officers must still appear before a promotion board. Prior to the board, however, a Soldier must get ready. Preparing good Soldiers for advancement is extremely important to Staff Sgt. Everick L. Moore, who is serving with the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq. “If I send good Soldiers to the board, the Army will have good leaders,” said Moore, a...
  • Ending America's Dependence on Middle East Oil

    11/17/2004 6:14:40 AM PST · by forty_years · 15 replies · 1,631+ views
    War to Mobilize Democracy ^ | November 17, 2004 | Gal Luft
    Gal Luft is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington, D.C. He is a specialist on strategic issues and energy policy with a PhD in strategic studies from Johns Hopkins University. A former lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, his writings have appeared in Commentary, Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, Middle East Review of International Affairs, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Luft addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on October 27, 2004. Introduction In both World War Two and the Cold War, the side best deploying scientific...
  • India plans moon landing

    04/04/2003 6:02:41 AM PST · by vannrox · 37 replies · 329+ views
    This story is from our news.com.au network ^ | April 04, 2003 | Editorial Staff
    India plans moon landing 04apr03 SCIENTISTS have met to debate India's plans to send an astronaut to the moon, with the chairman of the country's space agency saying the project would "electrify the nation". The Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, is holding the meeting amid criticism from some scientists that the mission would strain scarce resources without yielding much scientific benefit. In a project that needs to be approved by the Indian government, the ISRO hopes to send a small unmanned satellite to circle the moon by 2005 and an astronaut by 2015. The unmanned satellite project would...