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Retired Rear Adm. Jose Betancourt, former commander of Navy Region Southwest in San Diego, spent more than three decades in the military, and savored ...
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The Armed Forces of Canada and the US have worked, trained together and supported each other in the most challenging military operations for almost a 100 years, e.g., WWI and II, Korea, Gulf, Bosnia, Serbia, Afghanistan, etc. Entire units and individuals of the Canadian Forces (CF) and US are always on exchange or training with military units, schools and facilities of the other in war and in peace. The US and CF work seamlessly and are dedicated to each other without any material issue or restriction whatsoever. The $787-billion US economic stimulus bill south of the border requires that only US-manufactured goods be used in state and municipal infrastructure projects bought with the funding. The (Canadian) federal government has been hoping the Obama administration would make an excep...
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... of new housing; student mentoring and training programs; technology makeovers for schools; and te... and financial support for wounded military personnel and families of deployed troops. Hammerv...
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Harvard has rectified a mistake it should have never made. It signed an agreement to allow the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps back on campus.
In a democracy, estrangement between the military and elite schools is not healthy.
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PBS News Hour is looking for high school graduation stories from across the nation to share on its "I Am an American Graduate" board on the social media website Pinterest. The NewsHour Extra team is seeking photos that illustrate your high school graduation along with one or two sentences about the photo and what graduating means to you. This can be graduation from traditional high schools, GED programs, vocational or technical schools or military training programs.
Students, family members, friends, teachers and community groups may submit photos. Email them to amgrad2012@gmail.com, tweet them to @NewsHourAmGrad or post them on Instagram. Use the hashtag #AmGrad2012 on Twitter and Instagram.
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Fighting outnumbered and winning has been part of American military doctrine since the Cold War when we realized that we could never match the numbers that the Soviet military could put in the field. Our military philosophy became one of stressing quality over quantity. In training programs such as the Navy's "Top Gun" combat air maneuvering course and the Army's National Training Center, we emphasized superb individual and unit combat skills. In our professional military schools, our officers learned how the great masters beat numerically superior foes.
In "Outnumbered," Cormac O'Brien makes an effort at a reexamination of how some of the military greats overcame all odds to win. The result is a beautifully illustrated and entertainingly written coffee table book. It will not become a ...
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Instead of generalist historians, religion specialists, and journalists, younger personnel who combined recent operational experience with academic study, site visits, and debriefing of returning units conducted the training. By partnering on these visits with instructors from Marine Corps Professional Military Education (PME) schools and students in regional learning programs, CAOCL affirmed two central principles: first, to conduct effective culture training, culture trainers need to know and understand cultures in a military context by experiencing them first-hand; second, to effect change across the service, there must be a feedback loop from predeployment culture training to the schoolhouses. By combining Marines' experiential knowledge with added instruction and training resourc...
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Many companies have programs for training employees. But on-demand business communications provider Brainshark helped one business train its customers, and keep those customers coming back for more. FitLinxx sells a range of electronic devices for monitoring and encouraging healthy activities to fitness facilities, healthcare and wellness providers, schools, the military, and consumers. The devices require user training, which FitLixx had always handled the old-fashioned way -- sending a representative to the customer site to conduct classes. By early 2008, FitLinxx knew it needed a change. They sought out Brainshark and its on-demand communications capabilities. Brainshark gave FitLinxx a way to supplement and even replace live training with Web tutorials that users could access at wil...