In the summer of 1999, I spent 14 weeks learning to shoot people.Well, and to stab them with a bayonet. "Blood makes the grass grow green," and please do inquire regarding my war face.Georgia is unpleasant in summer, and OSUT — one-station unit training, the extended version of basic training that the Army grants to infantrymen as a very special personal gift — is exceptionally tedious. In the movies, basic training involves a lot of dramatic shouting and high-intensity confrontation, and...
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Like George Orwell’s novel 1984 had predicted for the regime’s “Newspeak,” the U.S. regime’s “defense” means aggression, and “humanitarian aid” means air-dropping and otherwise assisting the supply of tidbits of food, into a veritable ocean of bombing-victims (maimed and killed by U.S. bombs from U.S. aircraft that are being flown […]
When we were first introduced to King's Landing, it was a plush peninsula practically dripping with opulence. But by the time it was burnt down by Dany's dragons in Game of Thrones season 8, the location couldn't have looked more different. Continue reading King’s Landing’s transformation in Game of Thrones makes no sense MORE FROM THE DIGITAL FIX: Game of Thrones cast, House of the Dragon season 2 release date, The Targaryen...
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? –Bertolt Brecht Four weeks ago, Saint Martin’s University sent me and thirteen other faculty notices of “non-renewal of faculty appointment for 2025-2026 Academic Year Termination of Faculty Appointment Without More
Mysuru-based integrated electronics manufacturer Kaynes Technology will manufacture 3,000 indigenously designed RUDRA high-performance computing (HPC) servers for government-owned Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).ET has learnt that CDAC, a research and development organisation under the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), has already awarded the contract to Kaynes, a listed company.“These servers are planned to be used for building PARAM RUDRA...
In the Orikhiv and Kherson sectors, the invaders lost another 40 units of weapons and military equipment, including two air defense systems. — Ukrinform.
Israel’s multilayered air-defense system is credited with protecting the country from serious damage or casualties from an Iranian strike by more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles.
Israel has been on heightened alert since an airstrike last week killed two Iranian generals in Syria.
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In 1978, at 22 years old and in his first year of teaching, earth science teacher Pat Moriarty gave his 9th grade students a list of solar eclipses and told them to circle the one in 2024 expected to pass over their hometown near Rochester. He promised they’d watch it together. Monday, up to 100 of his former students are expected to reunite on his lawn and complete their 46-year-old homework assignment. NBC News’ Hallie Jackson reports on the excitement and emotion building around this...
The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.