Posted on 2009 November 1 by BBVM
A former soldier who teaches at the US Air Force Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., is accused of taking a date into the school and raping her, choking her unconscious at one point.
Michael W. Fassbender, 32, of Spokane faces one count of first-degree rape in the alleged [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: 511th Military Police Company, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Air Force Survival School, Army, Christian J. Phelps, Fairchild Air Force Base, Fort Drum, Michael W. Fassbender, SERE Solutions Inc., Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, Spokane County Superior Court, USAF | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An Army paratrooper charged after he helped subdue a fellow soldier who later died has agreed to a plea bargain that could give him 30 days in jail and dock his pay.
Spc. Joseph Misuraca of Harper Woods, Mich., was the fourth soldier to make a deal in [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: 82nd Airborne Division, Army, Fort Bragg, Joseph Misuraca, Luke Brown | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Testimony is set to begin Friday in the trial of a Fort Carson soldier accused of killing two people and wounding another in drive-by shootings.
Prosecutors say Iraq war veteran Jomar Falu-Vives called his assault rifle “his toy.”
During opening arguments, Deputy District Attorney Diana Kay May said [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Amairany Cervantes, Army, Cesar Ramirez-Ibanez, Diana Kay May, Fort Carson, Jomar Falu-Vives, Kent R. P Gray, Zachary Zsody | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
Authorities said Tuesday that the death of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy whose body was found in the Cleveland National Forest after a massive search last week has been ruled a suicide.
An autopsy performed on Zoltan Richard Tombol, 42, of Yorba Linda, showed that he died of a [...]
Filed under: Prison Industrial Complex, Riverside County, Riverside Sheriff | Tagged: 82nd Airborne Division, Army, Bill Smyser, Brea Police Department, Cleveland National Forest, Darrin Devereux, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Riverside County Sheriff's Department, Scot Collins, Steve Whitmore, Zoltan Richard Tombol | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 29 by BBVM
DEADWOOD, S.D. — A former Army recruiter has been sentenced to three years in prison for rape and possession of child pornography stemming from a relationship with a Lead-Deadwood High School student he met online.
Authorities said Juan Otero of Chicago was arrested Feb. 12 at a hotel room after dropping [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, recruiter, youth, Lead-Deadwood High School, Juan Otero | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 25 by BBVM
Nonviolence can be a major force for democratic social change, but not when it becomes a tool for covert intervention.
A close-cropped, no-nonsense infantry officer, Col. Robert Helvey was studying at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs on an Army fellowship. One day in 1987, he happened upon a seminar led by Gene [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Iran, Ukraine, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, USAID, Department of State, National Endowment for Democracy, Soviet Union, Defense Intelligence Agency, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Kyrgyzstan, Central Intelligence Agency, Open Society Institute, Harvard University, United States Agency for International Development, Burma, Center for International Affairs, Gene Sharp, Robert Helvey, Korea, Gandhism, Albert Einstein Institution, Democratic Alliance of Burma, Otpor!, Slobodan Milošević, Srdja Popovic, George Soros, Yugoslavia, Rose Revolution, Orange Revolution, Tulip Revolution, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Caspian Sea, Caucuses, Strategic Forecasting, STRATFOR, Belgrade, Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, CANVAS, Institute of Peace, Pascal Fletcher, Chris Miller, Marigold Revolution, Radio Caracas Televisión, Green Revolution, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Peter Ackerman | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 25 by BBVM
A seven-year-old second-grader attempted suicide while his father was serving yet another tour in Iraq. Seven years old. Seven. His mother was one of half a dozen military spouses I have spoken with about soldiers’ kids who have attempted suicide during their fathers’ deployments.
When I was seven, it was 1972, and [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: USMC, Army, recruiter, Iraq, Afghanistan, youth, Navy, USAF, Vietnam, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Kris Peterson | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 25 by BBVM
Eight-year Chronological Review of Public Reports as of August 28, 2009 Compiled by Learning Not Recruiting – Toledo, Ohio
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Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Army, Navy, recruiter, USAF, USMC, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 21 by BBVM
SAMSON, Ala. — An Army investigation found that soldiers should not have been sent to man traffic stops in a small Alabama town after 11 people were killed in March during a shooting spree.
An Army report released to The Associated Press on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, domestic militarization, Posse Comitatus Act, Freedom of Information Act, Fort Rucker, Samson, Christopher Garver, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Andrew, Michael McLendon, Coffee County, Geneva County, Geneva County Sheriff’s Department, Samson Police Department | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 16 by BBVM
(MOLALLA, Ore.) – The Oregonian reported this on Sept. 7, 2009. This should surprise nobody. Recruits historically are TRAINED to use alcohol and tobacco from their first weeks in boot camp, at least in the Army. If it wasn’t for the beer tranquilizer in the PX the rookies probably couldn’t survive [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Drugs, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: USMC, Army, Navy, USAF, methamphetamine, Phillip Leveque, Erin Edgar, 28th Combat Support Hospital, George S. Patton | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 16 by BBVM
WASHINGTON — Narcotic pain-relief prescriptions for injured U.S. troops have jumped from 30,000 a month to 50,000 since the Iraq war began, raising concerns about the drugs’ potential abuse and addiction, says a leading Army pain expert.
The sharp rise in outpatient prescriptions paid for by the government suggests doctors rely [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Chester Buckenmaier III, Department of Veterans Affairs, Elizabeth Turner, Fort Leonard Wood, Navy, Robert Kerns, USAF, USMC, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Warrior Transition Unit | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 16 by BBVM
CHICAGO — Preschoolers with a parent away at war were more likely to show aggression than other young children in military families, according to the first published research on how the very young react to wartime deployment.
Hitting, biting and hyperactivity — “the behaviors parents really notice” — were more frequent when [...]
Filed under: Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Army, Boston University School of Medicine, Camp Lejeune, Deborah Gibbs, Michelle Kelley, Molinda Chartrand, Navy, Old Dominion University, Richard Ricciardi, RTI International, USAF, USMC, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 15 by BBVM
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A former soldier said Wednesday he believed that the deputy who initiated a fateful traffic stop in 2002 was part of an Army role-playing exercise — a belief broken only when the officer fired two fatal shots at a Special Forces colleague.
In testimony that ranged from tearful [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Carlos Mahoney, Fort Bragg, Green Beret, Jim Morgan, Lee County, Moore County, Randall Butler, Robin Sage, SOS International, Special Forces, Stephen Phelps, Tallas Tomeny | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 14 by BBVM
WICHITA, Kan. — The U.S. Army wants middle school students.
The Wichita school district in south-central Kansas is one of a few nationwide offering middle school programs based on the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps curriculum. Top Army officials are studying its programs to see if they could be a model [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Army, Dave Dennis, Fort Monroe, John Vanderbleek, Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Kansas State Board of Education, Military Industrial Complex, National School Boards Association, North High School, recruiter, Robert Hester, USAF, Wichita North High School, Wichita Public Schools, Wichita School District | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 8 by BBVM
BARSTOW, CALIF. — Two men who served in the Army are accused of killing a fellow servicewoman in San Bernardino County.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Bell says 23-year-old Melvin Satcher of Barstow and 22-year-old Phillip Franke of Las Vegas were arrested Monday.
Both are accused of killing 29-year-old Sandi Duncan, whose body was found [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex, SB Military, San Bernardino County | Tagged: Army, Fort Irwin, Barstow Community College, Frank Bell, Melvin Satcher, Phillip Franke, Sandi Duncan, Fort Irwin Military Reservation | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 September 22 by BBVM
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A Marine charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife had confessed to the killing in a 911 call, police said Tuesday.
Cpl. Cody Daniel Richardson, 22, of Carroll, N.H., was charged in the death of his 21-year-old wife, Jessy, Jacksonville police said. He was [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: 2nd Marine Division, Army, Camp Lejeune, Cesar Laurean, Christina Smith, Cody Daniel Richardson, Edgar Patino, Holley Wimunc, Jessyl Richardson, John Wimunc, Maria Lauterbach, Marine Regiment, Megan Touma, Michael Yaniero, Richard Smith, USMC | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 September 19 by BBVM
American soldiers have killed an Iraqi civilian after he hurled his shoe at their military convoy in the central city of Fallujah.
Witnesses say US troops opened fire on Ahmed Latif, who was mentally disturbed, after he insulted the soldiers as they patrolled in the centre of the city.
US troops, however, claim [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 17 by BBVM
The American army has decided to shut down Camp Bucca in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra as it moves to release thousands or transfer them to Iraqi custody before the year end.
All the remaining 180 detainees of the facility, located just north of the Kuwaiti border, were transferred to US [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Iraq, Abu-Ghraib, Camp Bucca, War on Iraq, Camp Taji, Camp Cropper, Ronald Bucca | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 September 16 by BBVM
ATLANTA — An ex-Army official and a former military contractor have been sentenced to federal prison on charges of bribery of a public official, wire fraud and money laundering.
Richard E. Long, 63, and Mack S. Smith, 56, were sentenced Monday in connection with the scheme.
Long was a civilian manager of [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Mack S. Smith, Richard E. Long, Sally Yates | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 September 16 by BBVM
(The Intelligence Daily) — The Army Experience Center, an amusement hall built in a Philadelphia area shopping mall to make killing and dying look like fun to kids, has been the focus of repeated protests and criticism. This past weekend hundreds again protested at the AEC, and police arrested six [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Alberto Gonzales, Army, Army Experience Center, Beverly Rice, Cheryl Biren, Debra Sweet, Elaine Brower, Joan Plune, Sarah Wellington | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 September 12 by BBVM
COVINGTON, Ky. — A Fort Campbell soldier who was behind the wheel of a car when it crashed and killed his friend is facing criminal charges.
The Kentucky Enquirer reports that Erlanger police charged 26-year-old Riley Ealy with driving under the influence, second-degree manslaughter and wanton endangerment.
Police say Ealy was on [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Fort Campbell, James Fry, Paul J. Dickman, Riley Ealy | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 August 25 by BBVM
As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.
U.S. public [...]
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Posted on 2009 August 24 by BBVM
As researchers discover more agents that alter mental states, the Chemical Weapons Convention needs modification to help ensure that the life sciences are not used for hostile purposes, says Malcolm Dando.
In October 2002, Chechen rebel fighters held more than 750 people hostage at a Nord-Ost production in a theatre in [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, DHS, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, Malcolm Dando, Chemical Weapons Convention, oxytocin, Yuri Shevchenko, 'incapacitating agents, CS, Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development, Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, BZ, anthrax, smallpox, Counterproliferation and Technology Office, National Academies, Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences, Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies, Pennsylvania State University, 'calmative, benzodiazepines, alpha2-adrenoreceptor agonists, diazepam, dexmedetomidine, European Symposium on Non-Lethal Weapons, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Charles University, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, British Medical Association, The Use of Drugs as Weapons | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 August 20 by BBVM
VILSECK, Germany — A manhunt is under way for a U.S. Special Forces soldier who fled after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a German woman.
Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart — who was found guilty of multiple charges including kidnapping, forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual assault of a woman [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Barry Beilhart, Bavarian Forest, Böblingen, Daniel Lorch, David Court, Detrick Hampton, Evasion, Germany, International Special Training Center, Josef Macha, Kelly A. Stewart, Kristall Inn, Manual for Courts-Martial, Regensburg, Resistance and Escape, Special Forces, Survival, Vilseck | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 August 20 by BBVM
ST. LOUIS — A Washington University School of Medicine surgeon and researcher has resigned amid allegations that he falsified results of a study.
The university says in a statement that Dr. Timothy Kuklo submitted a resignation letter effective Sept. 30. He will have no clinical, research or educational duties during his [...]
Filed under: Education Industrial Complex, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Washington University, Washington University School of Medicine, Timothy Kuklo, Infuse, Medtronic | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 August 20 by BBVM
August 18, 2009
Summary
Restricted 336 page book by the US Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) on the identification of explosive fuzes. December 1997. The book covers most arms making countries.
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Filed under: Censorship, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, National Ground Intelligence Center, Worldwide Fuze Identification Guide | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 August 19 by BBVM
As the US government throws its weight about the globe, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children fall before Uncle Sam’s swinging scythe.
But, those at the cutting edge of the scythe are falling too, often by their own hands, in the inescapable confines of their homes or quarters in the [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Mike Mullen, Navy, Peter W. Chiarelli, USAF, USMC | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 August 18 by BBVM
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military judge will hear motions in the case of an Army sergeant recalled to duty after retirement so he could be tried for a 1985 triple slaying.
Tuesday’s motion hearing for Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis will deal with a defense motion to ban two eyewitness identifications [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Fort Bragg, Kathryn Eastburn, Timothy Hennis | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 August 12 by BBVM
EL PASO, Texas — An 18-year-old U.S. soldier was the triggerman in a paid hit on a Mexican drug cartel figure who was also an informant for the U.S. drug enforcement agency, police said Tuesday in announcing the arrests of the soldier and two alleged co-conspirators.
Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, who was [...]
Filed under: Drugs, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, Cazador Logistics, Christopher Duran, Daniel Gonzalez Galeana, Fort Bliss, Jean Offutt, Mexico, Michael Jackson Apodaca, Ruben Rodriguez Dorado, Russell M. Aboud, War on Drugs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 July 26 by BBVM
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federal prosecutors say a former U.S. Army captain has pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to steal $39 million worth of fuel from the Army in Iraq.
Robert Young, 46, a U.S. citizen who lived in the Philippines, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and theft of [...]
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Posted on 2009 July 18 by BBVM
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — Army officials are investigating a claim that a Fort Wainwright soldier sodomized a dachshund that needed treatment at an animal hospital.
A Fort Wainwright spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday because the investigation remains active. The soldier’s name hasn’t been released because he hasn’t been charged.
The alleged incident [...]
Filed under: Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Army, bestiality, Fort Wainwright, Jeanne Olson | 1 Comment »