Off topic, but interesting to see how one state has decided to approach returning combat veterans with mental health issues. By Chris Roberts / El Paso Times Posted: 08/30/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT EL PASO — Combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder who are accused of certain crimes may soon have…
Office Tab. Do you (as you should) use Firefox as your browser? If so, you are perhaps used to using tabs for opening multiple windows. I’m told even Explorer does that now. Also, Adobe and my favorite Nitro PDF also use tabs to navigate between documents. Anyway, here is a…
For whatever reason it appears the military will stop (or reduce) profiling of journalists covering matters in Afghanistan. Here’s: Kevin Baron, Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, Monday, August 31, 2009 RELATED STORIES: Army used profiles to reject reporters Pentagon: Reporter profiling under review Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters Journalists’…
See what you think? I’ve posted the article about LtCol Chessani not being prosecuted, but facing a BOI. One of the papers reported: Instead, the Marine Corps will convene a Board of Inquiry to hear testimony and recommend whether Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani should be demoted to major for purposes…
CA Court of Appeals provides guidelines for “knowing posession”. In People v. Michael James Tecklenburg, (2009, 169 Cal. App. 4th 1402) the California Court of Appeals considered the relevance and applicability of involuntary "pop-ups" and temporary Internet files (TIF or "cache") to the applicable statute. California’s Penal Code section 311.11(a)…
FORT BLISS, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier charged with murder in the shooting death of a local high school student has been found incompetent to stand trial, the U.S. Army announced Saturday. Spc. Gerald Polanco, 37, will be transferred within the next week from the Otero County Detention Facility…
A decorated U.S. Soldier, from the State of Texas, filed suit today in U.S. Federal Court in Washington DC against a British Contractor for injuries sustained during a reckless shooting incident in Iraq. Former U.S. Army Sergeant Kadim Alkanani is suing London-based Aegis Defence Services Limited, for an incident on…
Aquitted Camp Pendleton Marine waiting to "take back his own life" This story is in the Valley News, by Paul Young. One year ago today, in a precedent-setting trial in Riverside, former U.S. Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario was acquitted of charges he unlawfully killed enemy combatants in Iraq. Now,…
L.A. Now: Marines will not seek to reinstate charges against top officer in Haditha killings August 28, 2009 | 1:11 pm The Marine Corps has decided not to seek to reinstate criminal charges against a former battalion commander at Camp Pendleton for a 2005 incident in which his troops…
Pentagon: Reporter profiling under review By Kevin Baron, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Friday, August 28, 2009 —————————————– Military Prepares Profiles on Reporters Visiting War Zones By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, August 28, 2009