The state of California is looking towards a group of individuals who do not have a traditional background in education to fill the shortages that it is experiencing in terms of teachers in classrooms. According to a feature on the Navy website, schools are offering transitioning Sailors and Marines the opportunity to “Serve Again” – [...]

Various reports currently carry as their headlines the fact that the Afghan War death toll has reached almost a thousand U.S. military service members. According to a feature on the Washington Post, an increasing number of troops who have survived previous combat tours in Iraq are among the fatalities in Afghanistan, a “grim” reminder of [...]

A landslide hit a mountain slope in the Northern city of Cap-Haitien in Haiti on February 15, most probably due to the heavy rains that had been pounding the city over the past couple of days. Unfortunately, a two-storey elementary school – the Petite Ecole Francaise – was located at the foot of the mountain. [...]

In a previous post, we shared with you how terrorists are still bent on attempting attacks against the United States and its citizens. In a feature on CNN, Vice President Joe Biden concedes that the threat of terrorist attacks is real, but that it was unlikely that any of these attacks will be as “massive” [...]

A beach in eastern Thailand was turned into a make-believe war zone for the U.S. Navy SEALs and the Thai and South Korean marines, with more than eight hundred of them storming onto the Hat Yao beach in Rayong province on Thursday, according to a feature on the Washington Post.
The joint war games are held [...]

The USS Nassau Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) has departed from Haiti and moved on to its original deployment before it was diverted to Haiti after the country was struck by a devastating earthquake. The USS Nassau left Haiti on Feb 7 and has gone on to its deployment to the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area [...]