Air Force Wants New Drone

Posted on May 21, 2008 by yojoe

From the best technology-military blog Danger Room, comes the story of the Air Force’s desire to replace the Reaper with a new “hunter-killer” drone. MQ-9 Reaper first deployed to Iraq in the fall of 2007. It looks like the Air Force wants some of the $500 million budgeted for drone aircraft.

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The Ninth Circuit Rules On “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Posted on May 21, 2008 by yojoe

The Ninth Circuit released an opinion challenging the U.S. Military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The case involves an Air Force nurse suspended from her duties for having a relationship with a civilian woman.
The court adopts a new standard of scrutiny,

Under this review, we must determine not whether DADT has some hypothetical, posthoc rationalization [...]

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