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Cool Stuff: The Men That Ended The Draft, And What That Means For Today’s Wars And Contractors

Matt — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:02:54 +0000

In his recent coauthored book, Two Lucky People, Mr. Friedman writes that 5 of the 15 commissioners — including himself, Mr. Greenspan, and Mr. Wallis — were against the draft to begin with. Five members were undecided, and 5 were prodraft. Yet when the commission’s report came out less than a year later and became [...]

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Funny Stuff: Funkadelic Airborne!

Matt — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:56:34 +0000

This is awesome. It’s like Ron Burgundy directed this old Army recruitment video, and gave it some style. lol Classic. -Matt

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Maritime Security: JLT News–CEP Private Navy Will Have Full Funding By End Of Month

Matt — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:29:16 +0000

This is interesting news and JLT has been fighting to get this funded and operational for awhile now. So it will be great to see this in action. Although a couple of ‘what ifs’ have popped up as I read through the plans. The CEP is planning to buy seven 150-foot fast patrol boats, understood [...]

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Somalia: MPRI In The News–US Trains African Soldiers For Somalia Mission

Matt — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:11:50 +0000

This is a cool little article that mentioned the work that MPRI is doing currently in Africa as part of the ACOTA program. It just shows how important companies like this, or Bancroft Global, Dyncorp, Halliday Finch or Sterling Corporate Services are to the task of trying to stabilize Somalia. -Matt U.S. trains African [...]

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Iraq: Iraq Police Development Program–Will It Be Scrapped Or Just Reduced In Size?

Matt — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:34:19 +0000

The trainers are mostly retired state troopers and other law enforcement personnel on leave from their jobs back home, and a number of officials who criticized the program questioned what those trainers have to offer Iraqi police officials who have been operating in a war zone for years. Mr. Perito said that the State Department [...]

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