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The U.S. Military is so desperate to fill in the blanks that dead soldiers have left, that they are threatening to send high school students to jail if they dare to choose college over boot camp.
The recruiter from the Greenspoint Recruiting Station in Houston was suspended last week after a recording of his threats aired on a local CBS affiliate, KHOU. The recruiter, Sergeant Glenn Marquette, warned 18-year-old Irving Gonzalez that he would be sent to jail if he decided to go to college instead of joining the military, even though Gonzalez had signed a non-binding contract that left him free to change his mind before basic training.
Hiroshima’s Legacy : 63 Years Later
5:44 pm By Maegan La Mala · Politics| history| japan| military · 2 Comments
6 Aug 2008
It was 63 years ago today that the United States government unleashed an atomic attack on the civilian Japanese city of Hiroshima. The 9,700-pound uranium bomb lovingly named “Little Boy” killed about 150,00 people from the impact and continued to kill thousands for years after, from the radiation.
Towns In D.R. Subject to Raids
12:57 pm By Maegan La Mala · Dominicans| military · Comments Off
18 Jul 2008I set my google alert to notify me of all instances of “raids” being discussed in the news recently. And the results have been surprising. I expected to get links to stories about ICE raids here in the U.S., but instead, most stories have been about drug raids conducted throughout the world. Apparently, the War on Terror did not end the War on Drugs.
Dominican Police and United States (FBI) investigators yesterday conducted searches in several towns of Altagracia province(east), where they seized properties worth millions from the Benítez brothers, four Cuban nationals charged with defrauding the U.S. Social Security for US$110 million.
More than one hundred SWAT and other agents participated in the searches and occupied the cabañas Mi Casa and Singapur, located near Higüey, where an unspecified amount of money and firearms were also seized.
There was a good question in comments:
Oh goody who gets to divide up the loot…..and will the public see any benefits…or just a bunch of off duty cops partying in speedboats and cabana jacuzzis
I wonder who we could go to for the answer?
A Sad Statistic : Army Suicides Up
2:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| military · Comments Off
29 May 2008
Just as the number of casualties of both civilians and soldiers in Iraq continues to rise, the military reached another sad milestone today. Last year saw an increase in the number of army suicides, up to 108.
The 108 confirmed deaths in 2007 among active duty soldiers and National Guard and Reserve troops that had been activated was lower than previously feared. Preliminary figures released in January showed as many as 121 troops might have killed themselves, but a number of the deaths were still being investigated then and have since been attributed to other causes, the officials said.
Suicides have been rising during the five-year-old war in Iraq and nearly seven years of war in Afghanistan.
The 108 deaths last year followed 102 in 2006, 85 in 2005 and 67 in 2004.
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