China-based Cyber Attack Targets DoD Access Cards
January 24, 2012
Military.com|by Mike Hoffman
Cyber security firms have discovered a computer virus that uses servicemembers’ network security cards to hack into government networks.
How does it work? servicemembers receive an email with an official-looking PDF file connected to the virus that allows it to record keystrokes, said Jaime Blasco, lab manager for Alien Vault, a California-based cyber security firm. The virus then collects a service member’s personal identification number associated with a Common Access Card when he logs into a government computer.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
4 Ft. Carson Soldiers Hurt In Rollover Accident After Driver Falls Asleep
4 Ft. Carson Soldiers Hurt In Rollover Accident
Four Fort Carson soldiers were injured early Sunday morning when their car hit a guardrail on I-25 south of Garden of the Gods road.
Posted: 5:26 AM Jan 22, 2012
Reporter: KKTV
Four Fort Carson soldiers were injured early Sunday morning when their car hit a guardrail on I-25 south of Garden of the Gods Road.
The soldiers were heading back to the Mountain Post when the driver dozed off at the wheel just after 3 a.m. Their car drifted off the road, hit a guardrail and flipped.
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Four Fort Carson soldiers were injured early Sunday morning when their car hit a guardrail on I-25 south of Garden of the Gods road.
Posted: 5:26 AM Jan 22, 2012
Reporter: KKTV
Four Fort Carson soldiers were injured early Sunday morning when their car hit a guardrail on I-25 south of Garden of the Gods Road.
The soldiers were heading back to the Mountain Post when the driver dozed off at the wheel just after 3 a.m. Their car drifted off the road, hit a guardrail and flipped.
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Gay service members in Afghanistan post ‘It Gets Better’ for youths being bullied
LGBT service members in Afghanistan post ‘It Gets Better’ video to encourage youth bullied because of sexuality
Organized by OutServe, the military's association of active LGBT members
BY RHEANA MURRAY / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, January 23 2012,
A group of military service members are the latest to use the Internet to send a viral message to LGBT youth - "It gets better."
Four LGBT service members in Bagram, Afghanistan posted the video as part of a campaign to combat suicide against teens bullied because of their sexuality, Military Times reported.
In the two-and-a-half minute clip, the four Air Force service members urge kids to stay strong and true to who they are, regardless of their sexual orientation.
"Whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer - whatever, no one should be put down because of who they are," one female service member says.
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Organized by OutServe, the military's association of active LGBT members
BY RHEANA MURRAY / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, January 23 2012,
OUTSERVE
Three of the military's OutServe members who posted an "It Gets Better" video from Bagram, Afghanistan.
A group of military service members are the latest to use the Internet to send a viral message to LGBT youth - "It gets better."
Four LGBT service members in Bagram, Afghanistan posted the video as part of a campaign to combat suicide against teens bullied because of their sexuality, Military Times reported.
In the two-and-a-half minute clip, the four Air Force service members urge kids to stay strong and true to who they are, regardless of their sexual orientation.
"Whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer - whatever, no one should be put down because of who they are," one female service member says.
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A Returning Marine’s Struggle with PTSD
A Returning Marine’s Struggle with PTSD
COW Blogs : Bob Gillen's Blog :
Writer/director Nick Brennan’s latest film, A Marine’s Guide to Fishing, focuses on a Marine veteran struggling with both physical wounds and PTSD when he returns to his former life. “I was drawn to the story first and foremost by the realization that I couldn’t count a single close friend of mine that had served in Iraq or Afghanistan. It was a pretty sad realization given how long the wars had been going on.”
Brennan also thought this wasn’t unusual for many civilians today. His insight led him to use his senior thesis film (he attended NYU’s Tisch program) to explore the stories of young veterans.
“I was also interning with the investigative unit at ABC News at the time,” Brennan says, “and ended up covering a few big stories on Afghanistan, which gave me another insight into the war.” After a lot of time spent talking with vets, and with considerable research, Brennan zeroed in on the issues of PTSD and the process of reintegration into society.
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COW Blogs : Bob Gillen's Blog :
Writer/director Nick Brennan’s latest film, A Marine’s Guide to Fishing, focuses on a Marine veteran struggling with both physical wounds and PTSD when he returns to his former life. “I was drawn to the story first and foremost by the realization that I couldn’t count a single close friend of mine that had served in Iraq or Afghanistan. It was a pretty sad realization given how long the wars had been going on.”
Brennan also thought this wasn’t unusual for many civilians today. His insight led him to use his senior thesis film (he attended NYU’s Tisch program) to explore the stories of young veterans.
“I was also interning with the investigative unit at ABC News at the time,” Brennan says, “and ended up covering a few big stories on Afghanistan, which gave me another insight into the war.” After a lot of time spent talking with vets, and with considerable research, Brennan zeroed in on the issues of PTSD and the process of reintegration into society.
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New USO Public Service Announcement About Combat and PTSD
Military Heroes Talk Candidly About Their Battle with Invisible Wounds in New USO Public Service Announcement
In “Portraits,” the USO’s first PSA on invisible wounds of war, Americans learn how post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury impacts lives and are called on to take action
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) January 23, 2012
Right now, across the United States, an estimated 300,000 American service men and women live with invisible wounds of war – known familiarly as post traumatic stress (PTS), depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI). As more troops return home, many more are expected to be diagnosed.
At home, these service members and their families now fight an intensely private war against despair, depression, and anxiety. In an effort to bring awareness to psychological and cognitive injuries, the USO has launched its first-ever Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the invisible wounds of war.
“Portraits” is a documentary style PSA that features service members who proudly answered the call to duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now live with invisible wounds. Service members speak candidly, and sometimes emotionally, about how these invisible wounds have changed their lives forever and ask Americans to take action.
“I never thought I would have PTSD. I thought I had enough coping skills.”- SGT Philip Romero's, Iraq 2005/2007
“It’s like a pressure cooker and you know, you want someone desperately to trip that valve- you know, lose all of that anger and angst.”- Capt Eric Thomas, Iraq 2003/2004
“Now I have such bad issues with it that I’m being released from the Army. I’m being medically retired from the Army because I can’t sleep, because I can’t function on a daily basis in the Army anymore.”- SSGT Jessica Paul, Iraq 2006
“Get educated. Don’t brush this aside and don’t count us out.”- MSGT Mike Martinez, Iraq 1990/2004
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In “Portraits,” the USO’s first PSA on invisible wounds of war, Americans learn how post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury impacts lives and are called on to take action
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) January 23, 2012
Right now, across the United States, an estimated 300,000 American service men and women live with invisible wounds of war – known familiarly as post traumatic stress (PTS), depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI). As more troops return home, many more are expected to be diagnosed.
At home, these service members and their families now fight an intensely private war against despair, depression, and anxiety. In an effort to bring awareness to psychological and cognitive injuries, the USO has launched its first-ever Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the invisible wounds of war.
“Portraits” is a documentary style PSA that features service members who proudly answered the call to duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now live with invisible wounds. Service members speak candidly, and sometimes emotionally, about how these invisible wounds have changed their lives forever and ask Americans to take action.
“I never thought I would have PTSD. I thought I had enough coping skills.”- SGT Philip Romero's, Iraq 2005/2007
“It’s like a pressure cooker and you know, you want someone desperately to trip that valve- you know, lose all of that anger and angst.”- Capt Eric Thomas, Iraq 2003/2004
“Now I have such bad issues with it that I’m being released from the Army. I’m being medically retired from the Army because I can’t sleep, because I can’t function on a daily basis in the Army anymore.”- SSGT Jessica Paul, Iraq 2006
“Get educated. Don’t brush this aside and don’t count us out.”- MSGT Mike Martinez, Iraq 1990/2004
read more here
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