UPDATE: For those of you saying that protocol demands that the Joint Chiefs remain passive and non-reactive during presidential speeches, here’s how they lept to their feet to applaud the president’s threat to stick it to Iran over their nuclear program.
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Military Lawyers: Wait On DADT Repeal
Pentagon lawyers are recommending at least a year’s delay before beginning work on the repeal of DADT. That could push a vote by Congress back until the middle of the 2012 elections, a time when many would be hesitant to support the repeal. “Now is not the time,” the in-house legal counsel for Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint …
Read More »Pentagon Publication Critcizes DADT
A report in the Pentagon’s Joint Force Quarterly strongly criticizes DADT and says the administration needs to implement its repeal. The views do not necessarily reflect those of Pentagon leaders, but their appearance in a publication billed as the Joint Chiefs’ “flagship’’ security studies journal signals that the top brass now welcomes a debate in the military over repealing the …
Read More »DOD To Ban Smoking?
The Pentagon is considering banning the use and sale of tobacco products for U.S. soldiers. Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking. Jack Smith, head of the Pentagon’s office of clinical and …
Read More »Pentagon To Allow Photos Of War Dead
In another dramatic reversal of the previous administration’s policy, the Pentagon has announced it will now all allow video and photo coverage of the return of dead U.S. soldiers to American soil. At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “The president asked that the secretary of defense review our policy toward media and photos at Dover air …
Read More »Service Guarantees Citizenship
The Pentagon has announced a program that will allow legal U.S. residents to earn full citizenship in as little as six months in return for military service. Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United States citizens in …
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Pentagon Now Says Speedboat
Incident Possibly Faked
I knew it. And you knew it. And now even the Pentagon has to admit that the speedboat incident is fishy. The list of those who are less than fully confident in the Pentagon’s video/audio mashup of aggressive maneuvers by Iranian boats near American warships in the Strait of Hormuz now includes the Pentagon itself. Unnamed Pentagon officials said on …
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