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Air Force officials fired over bad nuke etiquette

June 6, 2008 - Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley and Secretary Michael W. Wynne were ousted on Thursday over what are being referred to as "nuclear gaffes," (not to be confused with an "atomic faux p...

Mo' money, mo' problems; less money, also mo' problems

June 1, 2008 - The Department of Defense recently asked Congress for permission to divert $9.7 billion from other areas to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon said the emergency request was made because Congress still has not yet finished its work on a massive war spending bill. But...

The U.S. government is full of crap

April 2, 2008 - Following the discovery that four nuclear warhead fuses were accidentally shipped to Taiwan in 2006, The Pentagon has ordered the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to conduct an inventory of all nuclear weapons a...

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Now Playing: the party boy arms dealer

March 28, 2008 - This week, the New York Times revealed that the main source of ammunition for the U.S.-backed Afghan antiterror forces is a dodgy outfit called AEY, run by a 22-year-old president (whose dad bought the company for him) and his 25-year-old vice president, a certified...

Filed under: Efraim E. Diveroli, Efraim Diveroli, Diveroli, 22 year old arms dealer, 22-year-old arms dealer, AEY

From The Room: Study Reveals U.S. Army Has Lower Recruitment Standards

January 25, 2008 - According to a Defense Department study, recruitment standards of the Army have fallen off as the percentage of new recruits with high school diplomas has plunged from 94 percent in 2003 to 70.7 percent in 2007, a huge departure from the Pentagon's longstanding goal of 90%. This creates...

Filed under: U.S. Army, Iraq War, Pentagon, George W. Bush