Congress voted to restore death benefits to military families Oct. 10 but not before the Fisher House Foundation first offered to pay the families the death gratuity. Families typically receive the money from the government after a service member dies and it helps to cover the funeral expenses of their fallen loved ones. In gratitude to the foundation, several military community Facebook pages started a fundraiser to benefit Fisher House. Led by the administrators of the Facebook page Stolen Valor, and with the help of the admins of Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said, U.S. Army WTF! Moments, Battle In…
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Apparently, girls will be girls, as well. A group of female Israeli soldiers got themselves in some hot water recently when they staged a racy photo shoot in their barracks room, complete with combat gear and brightly colored underthings. They posted the photos on Facebook and, not surprisingly, their command got a hold of them. “The commanding officers disciplined the soldiers as they saw fitting,” the Israeli army said in a statement. There are countless similar photos from our own Army floating around on Facebook — have any readers ever been identified and reprimanded? I think the real question here…
The Army has memes, too! The reflective PT belt has been the butt of many a joke since its debut, and now the jokes have an internet home at PT Belt Nation. Things made safer by a PT belt include cats, cars, cheerleaders and of course, newborn babies.
Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey knows how to rock a house. On some occasions, he belts out a powerful rendition of “New York, New York.” But when putting music to presentation videos, he likes to reach the younger audience. Earlier this week, he asked via Facebook for some song suggestions. The responses were pretty varied. A few Rogaine rockers voted for “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” (Poison) and “Thunderstruck” (AC/DC). The country crooners opted for “Find Out Who Your Friends Are” (Tracy Lawrence), “American Soldier” (Toby Keith), “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagles Fly” (Aaron Tippin) and…
It’s official: “Like” is a battlefield. U.S. Central Command has software that can create an army of fake identities online, Washington Times reports, a new sign social networks are becoming militarized. The software can cook up sophisticated profiles that would be used to”friend” al-Qaeda and the Taliban operatives on social networks, chat rooms and bulletin boards–then disrupt their operations. The location of the profile could be falsified. Centcom bought the $2.7 million software from San Diego-based Ntrepid, the same company that markets “Anonymizer,” a popular online tool that lets users hide their identities and locations on the Web. The Raw…
She was young, sexy and her credentials were stellar, but Robin Sage was no lady. An internet security pro used the phony profile of a 25-year-old cybergeek as a honeypot to punk execs at the NSA, DOD and Military Intelligence groups. Scammers posing as soldiers have used dating sites to dupe lonely-hearted women, but the so-called “Robin Sage Experiment” proves soldiers can be duped too. One Army Ranger who friended Sage inadvertently exposed his coordinates in Afghanistan through uploaded war zone photos with embedded location data. “If she was a terrorist, you would know where different [troops’] locations were,” Thomas…
Army Regulation 670-1, “Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia,” states “While in uniform, personnel will not place their hands in their pockets, except momentarily to place or retrieve objects.” But screw all that.
