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No, I haven’t heard of it either.  I was flipping around Youtube watching some Top Gear clips when I happened to see a Jeremy Clarkson video of a documentary called “The Greatest Raid”.  I started watching, and boy was I glad I did.
The Greatest Raid was essentially a suicide mission of British Commandos on the [...]

After reading this blog post calling for the USNS Mercy to be activated and deployed to Haiti, I found some interesting tidbits here on a San Francisco bloggers page:  Work on the USNS Mercy, scheduled for drydock work in San Francisco, may have been cancelled and the workers at the drydock laid off.  A possible [...]

I’m starting to compile a list of bloggers and twitterer’s on board the USNS Comfort.
USNS Comfort Twitter Account
Blogs:
HaitiComfort (official blog)
Comfort XO
US Naval Institute (the publishing arm for many Naval Press books)
Baltimore Sun on-board reporter
more coming…
p.s. Calls are now being made for the West Coast Hospital Ship, the USNS MERCY, to be activated and sent to [...]

The COMFORT is on station off the coast, as you’ll see from this Navy photo just released.

Although not technically ‘there’ yet the Comfort is now within helicopter range of Haiti and has started taking in some patients from the earthquake, according to various press sources.  Good timing too as there has just been another after-shock.
The Baltimore Sun is on board and reports that the entire ship went through an Abandon Ship [...]

 
Just a few days after the Defense Secretary said that air drops of relief supplies would lead to chaos and rioting, the Air Force has apparently changed their mind and launched their first parachute delivery of supplies into Haiti.  A C-17 from Nouth Carolina did a 7-hour mission to drop MREs and bottled water into [...]

Interesting tidbit here about the capabilities of Port au Prince airport.
Currently, we’re operating with a working maximum aircraft on the ground of one wide-body and five narrow-body aircraft. And the one wide-body is planned for two hours on the ground, and the five narrow-bodies are planned for one hour on the ground. We also have [...]

Google is offering a “Person Finder” solution for websites to help folks stay in touch with those who are missing in the Haitian earthquake disaster.
This simple code allows you to have a I’m am Lost I am Found kind of solution to any website (though it is acting up a bit at the moment).
Here is [...]

I put together a list of Navy vessels being sent to Haiti.  Quite an armada.
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
USS Bataan (LHD 5)
USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43)
USS Carter Hall (LSD 50)
USS Underwood (FFG 36)
USS Kearsarge
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)
USS Higgins (DDG-76)
USS Normany (CG-60)
USCG Forward
USCG Valiant
USCG Mohawk
USCG Tahoma

Canadian Navy
HMCS Athabaskan
HMCS Halifax

For those who want to get some really specific details of what is going on in Haiti, you can turn to some web interfaces to some rather old school technology.
Firstly, the Military Communications Bloggers are doing an amazing job tracking all the rescue traffic on the radios going in and out of Haiti.  MilComm bloggers [...]

10 minutes of watching Twitter reactions and you can crack up laughing.
@Newsweek: The Nobel Peace Prize is finished… It’s like a Teen Choice Award for old people. http://bit.ly/13UYU1
@thesarcastro Giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is like calling Dakota Fanning a MILF.
@KanyeInterrupts Yo Obama, I see u winnin and I’ma let u finish but NELSON MANDELA [...]

So who looks better? The black/blue police or the “Iron Roses” volunteer brigade in pink? Tough call, but bonus points to the Roses for carrying automatic weapons.

Saves us the cost of the bullets.

The NSA is our first line of cyberdefense, the wars of the future. The most advanced technology we have fighting to keep us safe from the threats we will face in the years to come.
So what’s up with this picture? This is a Google Street view of the NSA building up at Fort [...]