Show Summary 7/19/09

Captured Soldier in Afghanistan

Post on Taliban Internet Forum

Russian RPOD

British Helicopter Crisis

British Outsourcing their Helicopter Service

MI-26

MoD blunder in deal on Chinook helicopters ‘endangers lives of British troops’

The lives of British troops in Afghanistan have been put in even greater peril by the Ministry of Defence mishandling the purchase of extra combat helicopters, Parliamentary watchdogs will say today.

Bungling officials placed an order for eight helicopters 14 years ago. But the contract was so ‘appallingly’ written that the Chinooks were never airworthy and have languished in a hangar since 2001.

Now we are borrowing Russian helicopters to fight the Taliban

British frontline troops in Afghanistan are so short of helicopters and transport planes that they are being bailed out by the Russians.

The Mail on Sunday has established that the Ministry of Defence is using civilian Russian-built Mi-8 and Mi-26 transport helicopters to ferry supplies and soldiers in Afghanistan. The pilots are freelance Russians and Ukrainians.

Marines Testing Unmanned Helicopter

K-Max Unmanned Helicopter

Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace demonstrated the feasibility of using their K-Max unmanned helicopter as a supply transport for the United States Army and Marine Corps. The helicopters have not yet been deployed in military situations, but have been successful in transporting heavy loads at high altitudes within the logging industry and in transporting water to fight forest fires.

Walter Cronkite and Vietnam

President Obama fighting for the Warrantless Wiretap Program

Charles Roberts Jenkins desserts to North Korea to avoid duty in Vietnam.
Second life of GI who deserted to North Korea

Reporting from Sado Island, Japan — Charles Robert Jenkins is running late. He hurries into work at the souvenir shop to a chorus of approving calls that has become the foreign-language soundtrack to his life.

“Jenkins san!” shout two dozen tourists lined up to meet this diminutive man with jug-handle ears, a 69-year-old American who speaks only a few words of their native tongue.

Iran in Last Stages Nuke Program

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