Showing posts with label soldier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soldier. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Amputee actors train soldiers for combat



Published on Dec 4, 2012
Amputee actors are training our troops for combat in a way no one else could. CNN's Poppy Harlow reports.

Monday, May 7, 2012

U.S. military developing spychips for soldiers

World Net Daily 

The U.S. military wants to plant nanosensors in soldiers to monitor health on future battlefields and immediately respond to needs, but a privacy expert warns the step is just one more down the road to computer chips for all.
“It’s never going to happen that the government at gunpoint says, ‘You’re going to have a tracking chip,’” said Katherine Albrecht, who with Liz McIntyre authored “Spychips,” a book that warns of the threat to privacy posed by Radio Frequency Identification.

“It’s always in incremental steps. If you can put a microchip in someone that doesn’t track them … everybody looks and says, ‘Come on,’” she said. “It’ll be interesting seeing where we go.” - [Full Article]

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Soldiers Take Psychiatric Medications For Stress

Many American Soldiers Turn to Prescription Drugs to Treat Psychological Distress

After years on the battlefield or in the trenches, many American soldiers are showing signs of psychological distress. An increasing number of soldiers are turning to medication to alleviate their symptoms.

From the isolated outposts of Afghanistan to the bloody streets of Fallujah in Iraq, U.S. troops have been fighting, dying and suffering unbearable emotional scars. A 2008 Rand Corporation study found under 20 percent of soldiers reported psychological distress in some form...


Monday, February 8, 2010

U.S. Soldier, 'Waterboarded His Own Daughter, 4, Because She Couldn't Recite the Alphabet'

A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.

Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.

As his daughter 'squirmed' to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.

Tabor, 27, who had won custody of his daughter only four weeks earlier, admitted choosing the punishment because the girl was terrified of water.