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Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 06:11 PM - News Stories
Family Matters Blog: Blogger Joins Bidens’ West Coast Trip. Last week, I traveled to California to join Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, as she embarked on a West Coast Joining Forces tour. Dr. Biden had arrived with her husband a day earlier than me, so I caught up with her at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was participating in a roundtable discussion on military kids and how schools across the nation can better support them...
(Department of Defense)
Army Asks Soldiers to be Cautious on Facebook. Facebook. It seems like everyone, and everything, has a Facebook page. From middle school students to U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno to Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, millions of people, businesses and military organizations log on to Facebook every day to share information, interests and news...
(Military.com)
Edmunds.com Advises Military Personnel to Watch out for Deceptive Car Sales Practices. Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information, reports that members of the U.S. military are particularly vulnerable to deceptive practices by unscrupulous car salespeople. Trained to respect authoritative figures and say "yes, sir!" or "yes, ma'am" in response to direction, service members are at unique risk in a high-pressure sales environment. Edmunds.com Senior Consumer Advice Editor Philip Reed warns that crafty salespeople may even demonstrate patriotism just to lower resistance to a sales pitch...
(MarketWatch)
Story of Civil War traveling on wheels. Civil War history, for a change, seems to be going over well with the diverse sample of humanity who pour through the former Confederate capital each day. That’s the impression one gets from talking with people—state workers, lawmakers, teachers and out-of-town visitors—who saw Virginia’s museum-on-wheels on Day 1 of its visit to Richmond’s Capitol Square...
(The News Desk)
Gamers are enlisted to battle bugs in military weapons. Software bugs can prove deadly on the battlefield — a lesson learned when a buggy Patriot missile defense system failed to intercept a Scud missile that killed 28 American soldiers during the first Gulf War in 1991. To prevent such weapons disasters, the U.S. military wants to transform dull bug-hunting tasks into fun problem-solving games that attract swarms of online players...
(MSNBC)
Military Vet Who Needs New Kidney Scoops $14m Lottery Jackpot. A military veteran in dire need of a kidney transplant has won a cool $14.3 million in Wisconsin’s Megabucks lottery. Napolean Elvord scooped the jackpot on January 14, yet didn’t realize he was a millionaire until several days after the draw had taken place. Indeed, the winning $1 ticket was still on Elvord’s dining table when it was announced the winning ticket had been sold at a Wisconsin Mobil station...
(The Inquisitr)
Protesters feel time ripe to launch second uprising. In sharp contrast to their unison during a revolt that swept long-standing president from power, Egypt's protesters and the military are at odds what shape the first anniversary of the uprising should take. Increasingly sceptical about the military junta's agenda, several protest groups see the anniversary a fresh occasion to "launch a second revolution"...
(gulfnews)
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