A U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson had ordered this deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there.
This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam and there was considerable reaction around the world to the new stage of U.S. involvement in the war. Predictably, both communist China and the Soviet Union threatened to intervene if the United States continued to apply its military might on behalf of the South Vietnamese.
In Moscow, some 2,000 demonstrators, led by Vietnamese and Chinese students and clearly supported by the authorities, attacked the U.S. Embassy. Britain and Australia supported the U.S. action, but France called for negotiations. Somethings seems to never change!
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Feb 10, 1965: Ted Kennedy stumbles into Congress, issues an incoherent bleat about "emporial hubrish", and drops face-first into a pool of his own vomit.
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A la "Groundhog Day" movie, mebbe they'll do it right this time. Initial overwhelming force, and none of that "incremental" nonsense! Helio-assault on Hanoi with special forces ops capturing the communication, banking, and other infrasturcture links...
THOUSANDS of people living in coastal settlements in the Papuan New Guinea capital Port Moresby fled their homes today after an earthquake under the South Pacific sparked a tsunami alert.
The earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck at 12:47am, centred under the Coral Sea near Vanuatu, about 2000km south-east of Port Moresby.
The Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issued an alert following the quake, but Geoscience Australia duty seismologist Cvetan Sinadinovski said no tsunami was recorded on the tidal gauges in the region.
Rumours of the tsunami alert still spread through coastal communities in the PNG capital, sending residents scurrying for higher ground, local residents said.
Most had returned to their homes by 9:00am as officials provided assurances there was no danger of a tsunami occuring.
Nearly 295,000 people were killed by tsunamis after a huge earthquake on December 26 near the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The PNG mainland has also been hit by tsunamis in the past, with more than 2000 people killed in 1998 when tidal waves struck the north coast town of Aitape following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake off the country's east coast.
Today's earthquake was preceded by a smaller, 6.1 magnitude quake yesterday off the PNG island of New Britain.
Both earthquakes were centred far below the surface of the earth and neither caused any damage, Mr Sinadinovski said in Sydney.
Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu lie in the same tectonic collision zone as Sumatra, but Mr Sinadinovski said this week's earthquakes were not connected to the December 26 temblor.
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1. India has subs?
2. China actually knows how to sink them?
3. Where might this have happened? The Spratly (sp?) Islands or some other "disputed territory?"
and finally
4. WTF?
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If they put it at the bottom of the page under such intriguing headlines as :
North Korean leader Kim Jung Il in Paramount's Team America: World Police - 2004 Paramount Pictures
Paramount's Kim satire wounds Pyongyang's top movie buff
ASIA INVESTOR: Sweet-sour news from the Mainland / Australia: Is it all too good to be true?
It's official: Kim Il-Sung's 'revolution' to be continued by 'son and grandson'
North Korea's new entrepreneurs buying clout formerly reserved for the faithful
N. Korea unleashes threat offensive in preparation for talks
I suggest we invoke the 48 hour rule.
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Mike - Interesting. I saw on another part of that website a list of "first" for the Indian Navy, and they made mention of a first "Submariner to command a nuclear submarine", so they at least had a nuc boat at one time as well.
Mrs Davis - Good point. Though the headline makes me want to drag out Harpoon 3 and reinstall it when I get home tonight. :)
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Can't find a thing. Unless the Chinese are basing out of the port they were building in Burma, an Indian sub would have to be a very long way from home.
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Missiles and not torps?
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BS, it's perfectly do able with many air to surface missles if the sub is surfaced... but this is kook talk.
ANKARA, Feb 8 (AFP) - Two sailors from the Syrian-Egyptian crew of a North Korean cargo ship went missing off Turkey's northern coast Tuesday when their vessel capsized in a snow storm, Turkish officials said.
Most likely a North Korean flagged ship rather than NK owned and operated. It's a good place if you can't meet the high safety requirements of say, Liberia.
The nine other crewmen were pulled alive from the sea by two army helicopters which were called to help the rescue operation after the bad weather prevented the local coast guard from acting, the coast guard headquarters in Ankara said. "The two helicopters are continuing to search for two other sailors who are understood to be missing," the statement said.
They lost another NK flagged tub, the Lady O off Greece on Jan 17th. And there was another off Israel in December, I believe
"Avi, paint another NKor flag on the side of the sail."
The Adnan-1 began sending S.O.S. signals at around 1000 GMT after it leaned sideways about 30 nautical miles off the Black Sea port city of Sinop, local officials told Anatolia news agency.
The crew left the ship on a life boat. It included eight Syrians and three Egyptians, the undersecretariat for maritime affairs said.
A crack crew, I'm sure.
The vessel, ladden with iron and wood, was en route from the Russian port of Novorossiysk to Syria, according to Anatolia.
Well, the gunstocks were wood, at least.
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I wonder how heavy White Slag gets when saturated with water?
Bravely bold Mark Dayton
Ran home from Washington
He was most afraid to die
Oh, brave Mark Dayton . . .
Sen. Mark "Chicken" Dayton has announced that he will not seek re-election.
"I'm announcing today that I will not seek re-election to the Senate next year," the one-term senator clucked announced during an afternoon conference call. "God willing, I will bravely run away away complete my term to the very best of my ability."
Clad in a chicken suit with a yellow streak down the back a mile wide, Dayton said it has been a "tremendous honor" to serve the people of Minnesota for the past four years. However, he said he did not believe he was the best candidate to keep the seat in the hands of the Democrats.
"I have a firm grasp of the obvious."
"Everything I've worked for and everything I believe in depends upon this Senate seat remaining in the Democratic caucus in 2007. I do not believe that I am the best candidate to lead the DFL party to victory next year." . . .
Also during his announcement, Dayton said that he has withdrawn his support for the re-election campaign of St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly, a Democrat who endorsed President Bush in last year's election.
Dayton had been seen as vulnerable in a run for a second term. Late last month, a Star Tribune Minnesota Poll found Dayton's approval rating had fallen to 43 percent. . . .
. . . When bad polls reared their ugly heads
He bravely turned his tail and fled
Yes, brave Mark Dayton turned about
And gallantly, he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Mark Dayton
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Ancestor, and declaration signer Johnathan Dayton can quit spinning in his grave now...
Dayton seemed vulnerable during his press confrence too...
As she tours the continent after her Senate confirmation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is like a rock star — her every movement, her every meeting covered by an adoring media... As the Republican Party casts about for a viable presidential candidate in 2008 to keep Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) out of the White House, attention will inevitably focus on Rice, the woman who may stand between Clinton and the presidency. A much better idea would be that in the last one to one-and-a-half years of his term, Dick Cheney steps down for "health reasons"; then Bush could appoint Rice to be VP. It would be a superb thing for the Republican party, black America, female America, and the country as a whole.
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A much better idea would be that in the last one to one-and-a-half years of his term, Dick Cheney steps down for "health reasons"; then Bush could appoint Rice to be VP. It would be a superb thing for the Republican party, black America, female America, and the country as a whole.
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A much better idea would be for Bush to convince Arnie to run for the Senate in 2006 so Rice could run for Governor of California. Rice great, but she's never run in an election or held a political job. She needs seasoning.
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Rice has never run in an election but neither had Ike.
The tempest inside the World Meteorological Organization began with a single check. An accountant working late one night in July 2003 at the United Nations-affiliated weather agency in Geneva spotted a check that he had signed, but noticed that someone had endorsed it to an unknown third party, one L. Khalil. The accountant's curiosity was piqued, and he began nosing around.
"Within half an hour I had found about 25 checks worth about $400,000 that had not gone to where they were supposed to go," said the accountant, Luckson Ngwira.
That led to a formal audit and a continuing criminal investigation by Swiss authorities at the sleepy agency, focusing on allegations of embezzlement of training funds by Muhammad Hassan, a Sudanese employee who controlled that money. Investigators allege in documents and interviews that Mr. Hassan stole as much as $3 million over three or four years.
This might be a simple embezzlement case, except that in addition to the money, Mr. Hassan is missing as well. A woman claiming to be Mr. Hassan's wife filed a death certificate, which Sudanese officials have told investigators is fake.
The investigation and the ensuing tumult has rocked an agency where excitement usually only comes with extreme weather. "This is bigger than Ben Hur," said Kathleen Charles, who was the agency's chief administrator before resigning in late 2003. "It has kept growing and growing." The agency, which aims to coordinate and improve weather reporting around the globe, is small by United Nations standards, with just 350 employees and an annual budget of roughly $75 million.
But critics of the United Nations said the weather agency's woes, coming after disclosures of widespread abuse in the oilfor-food program in Iraq, reflect broader mismanagement at the organization. The House International Relations Committee is expected to explore this theme at a hearing on Wednesday.
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As far as I can determine the World Meteorological Organization doesn't do much of anything except hold conferences and issue press releases about how awful the weather will be in the future with global warming.
Oscar telecast is going through changes and the next award might look like the Chris Rock show.
Better test that "Mute" button, the FCC is watching
It starts with a new stage that will jut out into the audience to better suit the host's walk-and-talk style, helping him to prowl the stage and react to the audience.
Heh, heh, heh
Other novelties are planned to be introduced in the Feb. 27 telecast, including the simultaneous appearance of all nominees on the stage when the winner is announced; some groups sitting together in the audience and receiving their awards while seated; others receiving their Oscar statuettes in a traditional way, by going up on the stage.
There's a word for this: Cluster-f*#k
Chuck Warn, Gil Cates's spokesman, said it's going to be a much more interactive experience. The proposal was announced this week by Gil Cates, the longtime producer of the annual Academy Awards show, aiming to improve a telecast that is famous for being long-drawn up.
Gee, how about just mailing it in and forgetting the whole thing?
It will be Cates's 12th Oscarcast this year. He announced a handful of changes on Monday at the 24th annual pre-Oscar luncheon in Beverly Hills before 113 Oscar nominees. But the idea was not totally welcomed. The suggestion to stand on stage might not suit some of the nominees, who are drunk nervous enough just sitting in the audience.
So, who decides who gets the award tossed to them in the audience and who gets to come on stage and thank everyone?
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Now if they only had Anna Nicole Smith and Courtney Love as the emcees...
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They should put it on delay and then edit it down for content and interest and put together something worth watching, say one hours worth of highlights.
The arrival of intelligent robots that can read, learn and even breed is a step closer as two advanced robotics projects in the US and Korea announced breakthroughs today. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $1.2m to two researchers in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to build a computer that can read documents and learn from them. "Humans learn best and most efficiently by reading, and yet the brute fact is that machines, although often touted as learning this and that, cannot read," said Selmer Bringsjord, director of the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory. "Humans do something very special when they read intelligently: they ponder, almost automatically, how their new knowledge might solve future problems they encounter. Our goal is to take appreciable steps toward implementing machine learning at the genuinely human level; an intelligent machine that can read books, comprehend and reflect on what it has read, answer questions in English, and then explain why it answered the way it did."
Meanwhile in South Korea Kim Jong-hwan, professor at Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, unveiled software which creates 14 artificial chromosomes that he claims gives the code the traits of an individual. The software will be installed on a robot within three months. In tests the chromosomes within the software, which ultimately could allow the robots to 'breed', caused different reactions to external stimuli in different software systems. The code is modelled on human DNA, although as a single not double helix. Kim Jong-hwan has organised a robot football world cup which is used by researchers around the world to test their latest creations.
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The next development model is to create a cognitive machine. I suggest the way to do this is to, one-by-one, develop an AI capable of learning the "parameters" of reality, much like an infant would. Things like size, shape, color, environment (ex: day or night), and perspective could fortunately be figured out one at a time, rather than at the same time, at least initially. And then, the robot would need to learn discrimination, that is, how to "ignore" data that it already "knew", and focus on what was new and novel. This *has* to be done to conserve resources.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (Dummycrat) implied Tuesday that congressional colleagues who do not share his support for a failed gun ban being reintroduced in the House are mentally ill.
After all, he's Teddy's son, he knows mentally ill.
The Rhode Island Democrat also accused lawmakers who oppose the anti-gun legislation of not caring about police safety. Kennedy is the son of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy, both of whom were shot to death. The younger Kennedy made the comments at a Capitol Hill press conference to promote the reintroduction of the "50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Reduction Act." The bill, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), would ban the manufacture of such rifles and severely limit the sale or transfer of existing .50 BMG rifles except for those owned by the military or civilian law enforcement agencies. "Any policy maker who, on the one hand, says that they are for combating terrorism but, on the other hand, will not back this legislation, backed by Representative Moran, to me has a lot of explaining to do," Kennedy said "In fact, I think it would be the definition of insanity to say that."
In addition to challenging his opponents' mental stability, Kennedy also questioned whether his fellow lawmakers could claim to support police while opposing the gun ban. "If we don't pass this legislation, this Congress, implicitly, is saying that they do not care about the welfare of our law enforcement community," Kennedy said.
John Burtt - chairman of the Fifty Caliber Institute, the education and advocacy arm of the Fifty Caliber Shooters Association - told Cybercast News Service that Moran, Kennedy and their colleagues are trying to create "backdoor legislation to ban all firearms in this country. "What they're doing is using hyperbole to create anxiety on the part of the uninformed public that these guns are dangerous, that they are a threat to national security," Burtt said, "but they are not." Burtt said there has not been a single instance of terrorists using the .50 BMG in an attack on U.S. soil. A handout provided to the media at Moran's press conference listed 12 instances in which a .50 caliber rifle was used, threatened or intended for use in a criminal act. But Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, reviewed the list and questioned the nature of the examples. "It's usually people who were prohibited from owning any kind of firearm to begin with and, as a result, should have been prohibited from owning a .50 caliber already," Gottlieb said. "There's no need to have a new law. They ought to just enforce the existing laws."
Democrats aren't interested in enforcing gun laws, they just want to ban guns. Except for their bodyguards, of course.
Moran believes, however, that there is no legitimate reason for civilians to own the rifles. "It serves no purpose for hunting, whatsoever," Moran claimed. "If you went hunting with this, you would not have any trophy. All you'd have left would be some pieces of fur and hoof."
"Besides, hunting is icky!"
Burtt refuted Moran's assertion. "I know a lot of people who hunt with the .50 BMG," Burtt said, noting that many people pursue elk, bear and other large game animals with the rifles. "When a .50 caliber round hits a large animal like that, it has tremendous knock-down power. But, it does nothing more than put a half-inch hole into the animal and knock it down. This is just somebody who, obviously, has no knowledge, whatsoever, about the hunting capabilities of these firearms making statements that are completely inaccurate," Burtt added.
Well, that's never stopped them before
U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was murdered and son wounded by a gunman on a Long Island commuter train in 1993, contributed to Moran's "no legitimate use" argument. "This has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. This has nothing to do with taking away the right of someone to have a gun to protect themselves [sic]," McCarthy said.
Gottlieb disagreed. "As far as Carolyn McCarthy is concerned, the Second Amendment doesn't protect any firearm," Gottlieb said. "If she had her wishes, she'd classify every firearm under a foot long as a 'Saturday Night Special,' and ban it, and characterize every gun over a foot long as an 'assault weapon,' and ban it also." McCarthy and her anti-gun colleagues are using a "divide and conquer" strategy, according to Gottlieb, to disarm law-abiding Americans. "If you pick on one type of gun at a time and say, 'the Second Amendment doesn't protect it,' most gun owners who don't own that kind of gun won't get upset and she might get her legislation passed," Gottlieb explained. "Then, lo and behold, she'll come back for another gun the next time and another gun the next time until there are no guns left."
Yup, witness the Saturday Night Special outrage, then on to Plastic Guns, Assault Rifles, large capacity magazines, the so-called Gun Show Loophole, etc, etc..
McCarthy's comments seemed to support Gottlieb's assessment as she attempted to further demonize the .50 caliber. "Look at this thing," McCarthy urged. "Do you want this in your home? Do you want your children to play with this?"
No, that's Daddy's toy
Burtt said McCarthy's comment betrays her ignorance of firearms and their safe handling. "I don't want any children 'playing' with firearms, and they shouldn't even be touching them without the supervision of an adult," Burtt said. "I can't believe a representative of our Congress would make a statement like that." Gottlieb, however, said he was not surprised by McCarthy's comments. "Nobody said that the opponents of gun ownership are intellectually honest," Gottlieb said. "As far as these members of Congress are concerned, there's no such thing as a good gun."
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Jim "the war is all the Jooos fault" Moran, D-Auschwitz? Its always good to be lined up with a guy like that. Democratic inability to defeat him in a primary is one of the reasons they're leaking reasonable people like a sieve.
McCarthy and Kennedy have family histories that earn them a certain amount of slack for hysteria on this subject, but not enough for a law imposing it on the rest of us.
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A handout provided to the media at Moran's press conference listed 12 instances in which a .50 caliber rifle was used, threatened or intended for use in a criminal act.
*snort*
Twelve? That wouldn't show up in crime statistics if they all happened on the same day!
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The other day I asked (I never saw an answer) do the threats of things like this often turn into realities. I mean if you threaten someone with your .50 caliber rifle what are the odds you would use it? Or how often do threats pan out to actual violence?
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I'm a lot more worried about a police department that feels it *needs* a .50 cal. In fact, our local Sheriff bought himself a .50 cal MACHINE GUN, a serious military weapon. I hardly think it will ever be necessary to use a .50 cal MG on Darnell, after he has held up that same 7-11 again, just like it wasn't necessary when he held it up the other five times.
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I have no idea why this hysteria even got started. Some gun grabbing fool one saw a Barret on TV and decided that 50 cal were bad I suppose. I know this ban part of a concerted diabolical plot to deprive citizens of the right to keep and bear arms. These political hacks need to be branded as traitors and purged from elected office.
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Have you all forgotten that Al Queda is comming here and buying .50cal sniper rifles at gun shows? /sarcasm off.
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I am more concerned that they haven't banned the Kennedys from owning cars.
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More stupid legislation by lazy ass congressmen who are trying to make a name for themselves. These people are such pussies and liars. Don't confuse them w/the facts folks.
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Looks like the Dems are hauling out the anti-gun campaigns again (although at least with Patrick Kennedy, I can understand somewhat why HE would take this position, with two assassinated relatives). Just got an email from a childhood friend today--the one who is in tight with moveon.org--she sent a link on truemajorityaction.org, which is asking people to create their own spending plans and send them to congress. With this missive came what sounded like a canned Dem message about how it's better to spend money on "butter, not guns". So it's the same ol Dem party-guns are bad, bad, bad, social program spending is good, good, good.
Dems don't live on the same planet as the rest of us. In their world, no one needs guns-everyone is humane and wonderful and life and death confrontations are managed with a discussion. They hate guns, until one is at their heads--and then it's too late to change their minds.
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Anonymoose, Law Enforcement could use a .50 sniper rifle because SWAT teams cannot guarantee they can get close enough to get a shot with lesser rifles.
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Patrick Kennedy is a lightweight carpetbagger who moved to RI (where I used to live) so he wouldn't have to run against any of his cousins in Mass. He was elected handily on his name alone.
A Providence radio station's morning show always parodies him as The Beaver (from Leave It to Beaver, for you younger RBers). Spot-on and hilarious!
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He's had relatives harmed by guns, so that's his big selling point? Using the Kennedy standard then, I guess we'll have to ban 1968 Oldsmobiles. Let's ban skis. Let's ban small private planes. Let's ban nannies. Let's ban drinking on Easter weekend in Palm Beach and all summer in Hyannis.
The day I listen to these assholes tell me how to live, I'm hanging up my jock.
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"anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."
Um.... Unconstitutionally vague.
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This is certainly going to cut down on housing construction in Virginia. Insert the usual crack about carpenters and plumbers here.
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There is a plumber exemption. I don't think there is one for carpenters.
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The more I think about the pants themselves, though, the less they make sense to me.
I was reading somewhere (I can't remember where) the other day, that these things almost look as if they were designed to be as unflattering to the female figure as possible, simultaneously making the hips look narrow, the legs look short, the belly look flabby, and to make every single percentage of body fat _stand out_.
(Maybe it was John Weidner at Random Jottings? Or Moira Breen? I think they both talked about the general subject).
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This is not real news -- even I, the prototypical end user, have known for some time that anything that connects to the internet is vulnerable to viruses and other evil things. This is just the newsies trying to panic us about the next thing they just discovered.
Wonder how it compares to the Univ. of Florida, Notre Dame, Colorado, and Villanova?
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - Alcohol offenses at the Air Force Academy jumped 57 percent last semester, largely because of an incident in which 15 underage cadets were drinking at a retreat, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
So in other words, it didn't change much.
The Gazette of Colorado Springs, citing academy officials, said there were 74 alcohol offenses between June and December, compared with 47 in the same period in 2003. ``While the number of incidents is down, there is a trend in having more people involved in each incident,'' said academy spokesman Johnny Whitaker. Alcohol is a crucial issue at the school near Colorado Springs: Forty percent of sexual assaults in which two cadets were involved in the past 10 years also involved drinking, according to a 2003 Air Force investigation.
Most college sexual assaults do involve drinking.
The school has overhauled its alcohol policy as part of reforms put in place after scores of female cadets complained their sexual assault cases were mishandled. Whitaker blamed last semester's increase on an October incident in which 21 cadets were involved in a party at an academy-approved, but unsupervised retreat. The incident involved 15 underage cadets.
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While I'm sure the AFA takes every incident seriously, the author makes much ado about what is essentially statistical noise relative to the total student body.
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...The present USAFA Superintendent, LGEn John Rosa, was my wing commander at Shaw AFB SC not long before I retired - he has been leaving a very long trail of idiotarian bodies who thought that they were immune from discipline out there at the Academy. I guarantee those involved and responsible have paid a pretty heavy price. This wasn't some misunderstanding of an obscure rule, but rather an intentional violation of USAF policy that's been in place and very clear for more than a decade.
Mike
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Alcohol offenses went up 54%, largely based on one incident involving 15 cadets? Sounds like they don't have much of a problem.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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