I wasn’t in Alaska a lot, but I followed her on the campaign and just liked the way she did business.  She seemed to be a pretty straight shooter and a real person, not a puppet in a suit. Even this whole quitting thing hasn’t really changed my opinion of…

A little something for all the Dustoffers out there that might be reading care of www.army.mil: Soldiers unpack a new UH-72A Lakota at Cairns Army Airfield on Fort Rucker, Ala., July 8. “Flatiron,” Fort Rucker’s Air Ambulance Detachment, aids not…

As you have no doubt heard by now, the Dems have done their usual and cut defense spending into nothing.  Many of the future warfighter programs that the military has been developing for years are now dead, leaving us - the men on the ground, without new equipment to keep…

It took 9 years to figure this out? Really?  Sometimes I have to wonder about the think-tankers out there. <strong>Army requires different leaders to fight irregular wars, general says</strong> The Army will require a different type of leader in the fight against terrorism and other kinds of irregular warfare,…

I heard this on the radio a little bit ago and verified it on the FDA website.  Fourteen different hydroxycut products have been pulled for serious liver problems ranging from enzyme elevation to death.  I thought this was really important to get out in the milblogosphere…

I just discovered this tonight.  Geoff Tate, singer and songwriter, created an album that has come from his experiences interviewing soldiers from WWII through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.  According to his posts, he was talking with his…

So I guess this bat wanted to be a part of the space program so badly that he was willing to do anything.

Picked this up off of Jems and thought it was interesting.  However, I don’t think its the “Pentagon” honoring combat medics, just this particular doctor. Well, if they do decide to set up a memorial to combat medics, corpsman, and the like, I would encourage everyone to support…

I’ll just post a brief summary and let you read the original.  Its a great piece.  This SSG got awarded a Silver Star <strong>and</strong> a Distinguished Flying Cross in the same ceremony for different actions.  No wonder they want…

Well, I guess we know washed up singer Billy Joel’s stance on the troops now.  As far as I am concerned he can stay in Australia.  Why is it these jokers think they can leave the country on tours, say whatever they want and there won’t be any reprecussions?  Remember…

Well, it seems we now have a SOFA with Iraq.  A Status of Forces Agreement, means for all intents and purposes, our withdraw timetable has been set and our presence is at the discretion of the government of Iraq.  SOFAs are agreements between our government and a foreign government on…

I finally found my old articles!  Everything back to 2002 when the site started is back online.  Well, almost everything. About 9 months that are lost for good due to a hard drive crash (October 2002, May 17, 2007).  One of the advantages of this is that…

A computer that could pass the elusive “Turing Test!?”  Skynet and the T-1000 can’t be too far away!  “Passing the Turing test is the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI) and now

In a bit of real news from the front lines, a female medic received the Silver Star for her actions during an ambush.  She is only the second female to receive the Silver Star since WWII.  Congratulations Spc. Monica Lin Brown, you are an example of the type of people…

You may think of sunsets as something nice to look at, but if you have an older cell phone or a home alarm system, there’s one coming up on Monday that may not be so pretty. That day, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will let mobile operators shut down their…

I was sitting here thinking to myself “<em>I should add a gallery of shots from Iraq. It might also be a better system for inline photos than a simple thumbnail.</em>”  So I created a public gallery for the handful of people that might be interested.  Its sort of what I…

I know this has made the rounds, but I have been out of touch for the last few days (<em>More on that later)</em>.  So, the story goes that a local merchant had the gall to <strong>raise the Mexican flag over the U.S. Flag</strong> in Reno.  That, by the way,…

I just thought this story was interesting.  I guess there is a market for niche hardware guys still.  Think about whats gonna happen when the NCC-1701 Enterprise finds <em>”Vger”</em> in a couple hundred years. COMPARED with the latest electronic wizardry, they…

A couple of years ago I was forced to turn off the trackback feature in my sites.  I was getting hit 50 - 100 times a day by spammers using the system to increase their own ends.  Since then, I have been waiting for something that would block trackback spam. …

Why not just join the Army and get <strong>paid</strong> to play with explosives?  Not to mention one of the most sought after job skills in that kind of field - Explosives Ordinance Disposal.  I wish this kind of thing had existed when I was busy playing with firecrackers…

From Slashdot: “Eldest children have higher IQs than their siblings, according to a recent study by Norwegian researchers. The study focused on men, particularly ‘on teasing out the biological effects of birth order from the effects of social status,’ but indicates that the senior boy in a family…

Ok, if you are seeing this then you are seeing the newly revised and relaunched “Far From Perfect.”  You will need to update your links to reflect the new url <strong>www.ffpblog.com</strong> as the old URL is only a pointer now.