In yet another CLOSE HOLD story entitled “‘King for a Day’ Kit-Wise,” a veteran military writer describes some of the major military logistics problems faced by “grunts” in the killing fields of Afghanistan. With Afghanistan’s inhospitable terrain and stretched supply lines, our troops are expected to carry increasingly heavy loads because they have no certainty that they can be supported in a timely manner. Found below is an excerpt of “‘King for Day’ Kit-Wise.”
In a recent article published on High Performance Composites, it was reported that the “U.S. Army and Marine Corps are conducting final validation testing of the U.S. military’s next-generation — and radically new — combat helmet at the Army Research Laboratory’s Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Testing on the Enhanced Combat Helmet (ECH), is expected to last 6 to 12 months. The previous-generation Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) — currently in use by most U.S. combat troops — is made ...
August 27, 2010 – Quite a thoughtful article on the risks of ceding effective control of our US military to private contractors. It is often simply question of loyalty and integrity vs. ...
Two years ago, sophisticated sensors were implanted in military helmets of some 7,000 troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The purpose of the sensors was to evaluate the extent of concussions and brain trauma injuries caused by IEDs and other combat related incidents. According to the military video shown below, data from these sensors was downloaded monthly to a computer terminal and then forwarded to a “secure” data center in Aberdeen, MD for analysis.