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https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/03/27/trump-recalls-ready-reserve-to-battle-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+ARM&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR113GskYmWSjc6F9PlOY7ZM7U-tEBRO_WzQTMxBwdOyd3LYE6FHdtn_oB4 "President Donald Trump announced Friday...

Greetings SAF - Are there any gun enthusiasts here? I'm starting to ask some buddies about buying a gun so I figured I might do so here as well. I have never owned a weapon before and besides handling guns in the Army, I've only shot Glocks at a public range a few times. I'm looking to...

http://jamesstrauss.com/thirty-days-has-september/ Thought I would share this with everyone - first saw it floating around on FB so I decided to start reading his short story titled "30 days has september." The author, James Strauss, is a Vietnam War vet who served in the Marines as an...

Hello all, I am currently at BOLC on TDY orders. Fun times. My orders specifically state that I will be provided government dining facilities on the weekdays at no charge to me and paid per diem on the weekends. However, upon arriving at BOLC, we did not receive meal cards and we were...

I'd like to extend a word of thanks on SAF for the help and advice (especially from the start). Looks like I made my account 5 years ago and I know I asked some real annoying questions back then so thanks for the patience and professionalism. School kept me busy but I sometimes browsed casually...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/west-point-is-placing-too-much-emphasis-on-football/2014/02/23/a4f08694-97fa-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html Agree or disagree? CS

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/15/yes_marcus_they_did_die_in_vain What do you think?

I am considering transportation as initial branch and am aware of waterborne operations that is a possible path in the branch. The Runnymede-class is the ship you can command, I believe. Is there anyone who knows about how to get a slot into commanding an Army ship as a transpo officer? I think...

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/12/7_absurd_ways_the_military_wastes_taxpayer_dollars/ Can we confirm this? Paints a pretty awful picture of our generals and frankly really disturbing and un-American

http://news.yahoo.com/female-military-members-sue-serve-combat-192246975.html I think its only a matter of time. Germany and Israel have successfully integrated their military and I think if the standards are not compromised, I can't really see why this shouldn't happen. Not sure what to say...

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/afghanistan-october-2012/100398/ Just wanted to share 40 insightful pictures concerning our operations overseas as well as back home.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general-failure/309148/3/?single_page=true Long read but interesting article. If its all true, extremely disturbing, but otherwise I think it gives a look into the top levels of our military and government in the past decade of war.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Newburgh_address One of my instructors recommended this to our class (he was shocked to learn that it wasn't required reading anymore for the Corp) and so I wrote it down and looked it up. This is George Washington's brief speech to officers of the Continental...

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Few-the-Proud-the/134830/ These are only the first several paragraphs. Read on for some brilliant writing and awesome points made by Prof Fleming that resonate highly with me, even though I do not attend USNA. One of the best articles I have read in a while. I...

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2012/04/marine-corps-women-infantry-combat-dunford-amos-041812/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/26/afghans-lob-grenades-us-base-clash-police/ Just the latest development on the incident...can we please just leave? Loss of two US soldiers is sickening. How are we supposed to work with these kinds of people? And thats something that should have...

Hello everyone, So I'm a yuk and if I get things approved, I could opt to get PRK surgery within the year. I have heard some unsavory things about the surgery though and I know that not everyone has 100% satisfaction with it. There are briefings about the surgery every month and I plan on...

http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2011/10/ap-afghanistan-hamid-karzai-side-with-pakistan-over-us-102311/ Don't really know how to respond except feel like I've been slapped in the face. Also pretty confused about Karzai's loyalties concerning his older remarks about Afghanistan's relationship...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/14/obama-sending-troops-aid-africa-anti-insurgency/ What do you all think? I find it hard to believe that these troops are just "advisors"...first thing I thought of was the "advisors" we sent to Vietnam before sending ground troops. I am uneasy...

So....does anyone have any tried-and-true methods they used to improve their cardio strength? Running used to be one my worst nightmares but its gotten better and I actually enjoy it sometimes but I'm trying to max the APFT (13:00ish 2MR...ran a 14:03 three weeks ago) and just improve my...