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Army Cuts Body Armor Plate Weight 10% 27 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
U.S. Army engineers have shrunk the weight of a Enhanced Small Arms Protective Insert plate by ten percent, officials announced Monday. The Army’s Research Laboratory reduced the weight of a size medi...
Watch Staff Sgt. Carter’s Medal of Honor award ceremony streaming 26 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
One would hope that every network will be covering this event, but if not (or if you don’t have access to a TV), you can watch Staff Sergeant Ty Carter’s award ceremony streaming live today at 14h20 (...
Pests and vermin sometimes require a countersniper 26 Aug 2013 | 02:36 am
Take a couple of career TACP NCOs (one recently retired) and a friend from a veteran-centric film group called The Video Game Addict? Apparently, you get a different sort of real estate commercial. Fi...
Old School Blacksmith Releases New Hatchet 23 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
Domari Nolo Defense Consulting (DNDC) recently partnered with Iron Hammer Armory (IHA) to build something a little different than the “tactical tomahawks” available elsewhere. While some of those are ...
Marines, Soldiers Get Biometrics Tool That ID’d Bin Laden 23 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
Marines and soldiers deployed to Afghanistan have received a new biometrics tool to help distinguish potential Taliban fighters. The device is a SEEK II — Securte Electronic Enrollment Kit and Multimo...
Agilite Acquires Shiltex, Serves SOF and Victoria’s Secret 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Rehovot-based Agilite is a company founded and operated by Israeli Defense Force and US special operations veterans. Company officials plan to announce Tuesday they’ve purchased a company called Shilt...
Sage Dynamics reviews the BFG RACKminus 20 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
The Blue Force Gear RACKminus is a minimalist piece of load bearing equipment (LBE), a chest rig half the thickness of a dime and half the weight of a loaded M4 magazine. Some in the tactical communit...
Best training video to date: How to be an Operator 19 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
It’s hard to tell which part of this video is the most accurate – of course, I say that as a former POG. I was never a SOF guy, but I did read Task Force Black in a Holiday Inn last night. Warning: la...
Official: Troops Look Like an ‘American Baskin Robbins’ 16 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
When asked what he thought about the order from Congress to stop creating service-specific camouflage patterns, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said U.S. force...
Questioning the Combat Usefulness of a Muzzle Blast Enhancer 15 Aug 2013 | 01:23 am
Snake Hound Machine is building something called “The Loudener.” It’s a muzzle blast enhancer. Why—and this is not a rhetorical question—would anyone want a muzzle blast enhancer? The Loudener is a he...
