The Pentagon’s 12-Step Program to Create a Military of MisfitsBy Nick Turse Military recruiting in 2006 has been marked by upbeat pronouncements from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claims of success by the White House, propaganda releases by the Pentagon, and a spate of recent press reports touting the way the military has made its wo/manpower [...]
HireVeterans.com is Found Most Effective Way to Find and Hire Employees Recruiters and HR leaders find online job sites, effective in filling openings, despite complaints that they generate too many unqualified applicants. Only employee referral programs got higher marks, while print advertising trailed the pack. The first comprehensive national study of recruitment advertising effectiveness, conducted by [...]
Used As U.S. Army Recruiting Tool, Along With Action Figures Of The Soldiers Left: A scene from the U.S. Army video game “America’s Army,” Uncle Sam’s newest tool for Army recruiters. About 27 million copies of the taxpayer-funded game have been distributed since its July 4, 2002, debut, and there are about 7.5 million registered [...]
The famous TECHEXPO Career Fairs have officially returned to Downtown New York City this Fall! Over 45 employers are ready to interview experienced tech professionals at the City’s largest technical career fair. In addition, Microsoft hosts a special recruiting pavilion for its local Partner companies. The TECHEXPO hiring events are the ultimate resource for you [...]
Get to Know Employers who Support Our Veterans The Boeing Company opens it’s Employment Doors to U.S. Veterans by Lynn Earle PPS, at HireVeterans.com Boeing is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined, with capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and [...]
Men may have developed a psychology that makes them particularly able to engage in wars, a scientist said on Friday. New research has shown that men bond together and cooperate well in the face of adversity to protect their interests more than women, which could explain why war is almost exclusively a male business, according [...]
How I Learned That There is More to Being a Citizen Than Paying Taxesby David E. Bailey My father was a member of the “greatest generation.” He served in the Pacific during World War II. Some time during my senior year in high school, he informed me that “I owe more to my country than [...]
VA Report: There is No Gulf War Syndrome There is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome, even though U.S. and foreign veterans of the war report more symptoms of illness than do soldiers who didn’t serve there, a federally funded study concludes. U.S. and foreign veterans of the Gulf War do suffer from an [...]
A Contrast Made Between September 11th and World War IIby Robert W. Schneider On 9-11, the nation memorialized the victims of the terrible tragedy in New York City and honored the many heroes on the ground, in the towers and in the air. Today, five years after the tragedy, emotions still ran high and firemen [...]
Moments of silence to Remember 9/11 held in N.Y., Pentagon, Boston, Shanksville NEW YORK – The World Trade Center site fell silent four times twice each to mark jetliner crashes and the collapse of its iconic towers and solemn remembrances were held around the nation Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 [...]
America’s youth must serve their country, one way or anotherby Edward Bernard Glick The United States military has a very big problem: Too many global conflicts and commitments – and too few soldiers. That’s why it’s time to reinstate the draft. A draft would do more than just harness the energy and idealism of the [...]
Battle Cries: For U.S. troops and their wives and children, the Iraq war’s invisible costs just keep on piling up. by Michael Hastings, Newsweek Left: Tyra Grauer, at left with daughters Morriah and Maleah, found out about her husband’s extension less than a week before he was expected to be back home Toward the end [...]
Iraq War Veterans Say Sept. 11 Inspired Them to Fightby Richard Liebson As a recruiter for the Army Reserve, Sgt. 1st Class Ron Agard of Monsey had a standard answer for those who asked why anyone should join the military. “One of these days,” he’d say, “you’re going to need us.” On Sept. 11, 2001, [...]
What has changed in the last five years?by Anthony Manduca Five years after 19 hijackers carried out one of the most brutal terrorist attacks in history, resulting in the death of some 3,000 innocent people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania the threat posed by Al-Qaeda terrorism is as strong as ever. 9/11 had a [...]
Interrogation Techniques Rejected By Military Get Bush Approvalby Adam Liptak Many of the harsh interrogation techniques just repudiated by the Pentagon would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by the Bush administration, and the U.S. courts would be forbidden from intervening.The proposal is in the last 10 pages of an 86-page [...]
As violence continues in Iraq, it is revealed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was no friend of Saddam Hussein despite claims by George Bush.by Jonathan Weisman There is no evidence of formal links between former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda leaders before the invasion of Iraq by the US in 2003, a long-awaited declassified US Senate report [...]
In a major victory for soldiers suffering head trauma In a major victory for soldiers suffering head trauma, a bi-partisan amendment put forth by Senators George Allen (R-VA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), and cosponsored by Larry Craig (R-ID), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, received unanimous approval by the U.S. Senate on [...]
VINDICATION OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN–You Were Right, America Was Wrongby Resa LaRu Kirkland One of my beloved Vietnam Veterans, Michael Galindo, sent me an email the other day with a humorous idea for a t-shirt: If the Vietnam Veteran lost the Vietnam War, how come we don’t speak Vietnamese? I laughed. It was logical, it [...]
On This Day: World War II 1943: Italy’s surrender announced to Allies (September 8, 1943) Italy has signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies, General Dwight D Eisenhower has announced. The surrender was signed five days ago in secret by a representative of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy’s prime minister since the downfall of Benito Mussolini [...]
Bush admits existence of secret CIA prisons US President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies. Bush said 14 suspects including the mastermind of the September 11 [...]
Pending veterans’ appeals backlog will be reduced Chief Judge William Greene, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, has called up two retired federal judges to help the court deal with an unprecedented number of pending appeals. The decision has earned the praise of the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on [...]
Get to Know Employers who Support Our Veterans Heavy Construction Company has Employment Opportunities for High Quality U.S. Veterans by Lynn Earle PPS, at HireVeterans.com D.H. Blattner & Sons, Inc. is a heavy civil contractor and construction manager delivering collaborative construction solutions to industry leaders throughout the United States and Canada. Blattner is currently hiring [...]
Great jobs await you in the defense, intelligence and government services sectors with federal agencies and government contractors this month! Bring many copies of your resume and meet company representatives in Virginia to discover the many opportunities offered in Information Technology, Engineering, Aerospace, Telecom, Project Management, Intelligence, Operations, Homeland Security, Research, & much more. All [...]
Guy Gabaldon, the Pied Piper of Saipan, dies at 80 Left: At a 2004 ceremony saluting veterans, Guy Gabaldon joked that one Japanese person did capture him: his wife. Guy Gabaldon, who as an 18-year-old Marine private single-handedly persuaded more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender in the World War II battle for Saipan, has [...]
Federal authorities estimate that approximately 250,000 U.S. service members leave active duty annually. So what do veterans do upon leaving military service for a civilian life? Oftentimes, they embark on a lengthy job search.by Richard Castellini According to a new survey, acclimating back into the civilian workforce can be difficult, with nearly one-in-five veterans stating [...]
Children of the Warby Richard Engel Thirteen-year-old Marwa never cried even when I asked her to relive the night her parents were executed in their home. It surprised me. I wondered how she’d become so tough so quickly. “Where were you when the gunmen came?” I asked Marwa as we sat together in a classroom [...]
4 Soldiers Eligible for Execution if Convictedby Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar WASHINGTON Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering three detainees during a raid in Iraq in May are eligible to receive the death penalty if convicted, a military investigator has determined. In a report summarizing the military equivalent of a grand jury investigation, Lt. Col. James P. [...]
The Pentagon is testing a new approach to mending the growing number of severely injured soldiers: extreme sports. A ride on the rugged road to recovery. “Hey, have any of y’all seen the crocodile that got my arm?” U.S. Army Maj. Anthony Smith hoists his prosthetic hook, tied to a paddle, as he floats down [...]
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