Combat Lessons Improve the CH-47F
The newest version of the venerable CH-47 Chinook, the CH-47F or “Fox” variant already has nearly four years of deployments …
Military & Security News
Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer Confirmed for Medal of Honor
This week the White House announced that former Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer of Greensburg, Ky., will receive the Medal of …
High Ground
Believe it or not, the CH-47F Chinook already has nearly four years of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan behind it.…
Maj. Gen. Paul E. Lefebvre Interview
The U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, (MARSOC) was stood up midway through the ongoing war in Southwest Asia, …
Retiring to the Sunshine State
There are a lot people who already know – or think they know – about the state of Florida. For …
Ford Blue Angels Mustang Salutes 100 Years of U.S. Naval Aviation
The engineering and design teams at Ford Motor Company have produced a unique Blue Angels Mustang. This one-of-a-kind Ford Mustang …
Disaster Politics
In her FY 2012 Homeland Security budget overview (http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/03/checkbook-homeland-security-highlights-from-the-fy-2012-budget-request), Jena Baker McNeill of the Heritage Foundation charges that the nation’s …
Military Retirement in Virginia
Capt. Paul Hollandsworth first came to eastern Virginia as a naval aviator in 1956, when he was just out of …
Disaster Politics
When the FY 2012 Homeland Security appropriations bill cleared the House of Representatives on June 2, 2011, it contained steep …
Securing Cyberspace
On May 31, 2011, the Center for a New American Security – a bipartisan think tank founded in 2007, with …