November 14, 2009 by Liz Rennie  
Filed under World News

BRISBANE, Australia — An Australian Special Forces Explosives Detection Dog named Sabi has been found alive and well almost 14 months after being declared missing in action in Afghanistan.
The black Labrador retriever, who was trained to detect improvised explosive devices in the Oruzgan province, was recovered by a US soldier at an isolated patrol [...]

November 9, 2009 by Blast Magazine Newsroom  
Filed under National News

The US Army Criminal Investigation Command announced Monday night that it was looking for any military of civilian personnel or any vehicles that may have left the scene of the Building 42003 massacre scene at Fort Hood, Texas.
CID would not speculate but said it was looking for anyone who “may have inadvertently left the scene” [...]

November 9, 2009 by Blast Magazine Newsroom  
Filed under National News

Here is the US Army’s list of victims of the shooting rampage November 5.
Twelve soldiers and one civilian employee were killed.
Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman, 55, of Havre De Grace, Md. She was assigned to the 1908th Medical Company, Independence, Mo.
Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va. He was assigned to the 467th Medical Detachment, [...]

June 23, 2009 by Steven H. Bagley  
Filed under Overthinking It

When you’re writing a book about the military, this critic thinks, you’ve got to be a great writer. You have got to know what you’re doing, and you have got to understand the shark-infested waters you’re swimming in.
A bad book about the military will do one or several of the following things: 1) reduce [...]

December 16, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom  
Filed under The News, World News

HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (Air Force News Service) — Air Force officials have scheduled to deploy two contingents of F-22A Raptors to the Pacific theater in January 2009 for approximately three months.
Current plans call for 12 of the fighters to deploy to Kadena Air Base, Japan, from Langley Air Force Base, Va., and another [...]