US sending 12 F-16 jets and 300 servicemembers to Poland

US sending 12 F-16 jets and 300 servicemembers to Poland
Stars and Stripes
By Jennifer H. Svan and John Vandiver
Published: March 10, 2014

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Polish government officials said Monday that the U.S. military was sending 12 F-16 fighter jets and about 300 servicemembers to their country in response to the situation in Ukraine.

Some U.S. aircraft and servicemembers had already arrived in Poland on Monday, with the remainder expected later in the week, a spokeswoman for Poland’s Defense Ministry said.

Where the warplanes and personnel were coming from is not known, however, as U.S. military officials provided few details on the mission.

It’s the second time in less than a week that the Pentagon has ordered combat planes and personnel to countries in Eastern Europe amid mounting tensions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula. Last Thursday, the U.S. Air Force sent six F-15C Eagles and more than 60 U.S. airmen from RAF Lakenheath, England, to Lithuania to bolster NATO’s air policing mission over the Baltics.
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Wounded Veteran Trades Wheelchair for Skis

Colorado veteran gets second chance to serve US in Paralympic Games
9News Colorado
Taylor Temby
March 2, 2014

DENVER - Americans choose to serve their country in different ways, but few of us are given an opportunity to serve like Coloradan Joel Hunt.

Hunt is an Iraqi war veteran who will be competing as an alpine skier in the Sochi Paralympic games this week, but his journey to skiing was rather unconventional.

Hunt joined the U.S. army back in 1998. He served for almost 10 years including three tours in Iraq. During his service, Hunt says he was hit with several roadside bombs. When he finally came home, he was bound to a wheelchair, suffering from a traumatic brain injury, paralysis in his leg and PTSD.

"I came home [and] found myself confined to a wheelchair in 2007 after I retired," he said. "I was confined to a wheelchair more for my traumatic brain injury, my dizzy spells and blackouts."
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TERRIFYING WEAPONS THAT ATTACK THE SENSES

TERRIFYING WEAPONS THAT ATTACK THE SENSES
Psychotronic Guns
BY THOR JENSEN

This is still an in-development project, but the potential for mayhem is unimaginable. Russia is currently working on weapons that employ electromagnetic radiation to directly affect the central nervous system – the root of all sensory processing – in a variety of unpleasant ways. The weapon will most likely build on existing research that shows the ability of low-frequency microwaves to affect brain function, alter moods and transmit false sensory data. Although this may all seem like X-Files stuff, the scientific basis is there. It’s up to some unscrupulous weapons designer to put it into practice.
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Murder in Tampa studied by Russian President Medvedev?

This is a National Security issue but the US media have other things to report on.


Julie Schenecker admitted killing her two children in Tampa. There have been a lot of cases in the US and around the world like this but what could have been so important about this case that the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences had to prepare a report for President Medvedev?

This case not only involves this but an Army Colonel with US Central Command. The report prepared by the academy also took a look at the drugs being used like Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil and Cymbalta.

Why Medvedev is so interested in this case? Is he interested in the mental health of our military? Looking for ways to avoid it happening to his military? What is really behind this interest?

In a way it makes our own media a disgrace when they can focus in on topics for days leaving no time for real reporting on stories like this. It is a shame that Russia would be taking a harder look at all of this than our own media does. Issues with these drugs has been reported in print media for years with little being done about any of it. A few minutes here and there talking about what happens to our troops and veterans does not allow the pubic to be informed enough to force politicians to do the right thing. Now a foreign nation is paying more attention to all of this than they are. This is not a good thing at all.

Family Massacre In US Linked To American Military ‘Murder Drugs’
Posted by EU Times on Feb 9th, 2011

A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) says that a massacre in the United States committed during the past fortnight has as its “most likely cause” what are described as “murder drugs” being given by the millions to American Soldiers by their Military Leaders for the fighting of their Nations wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to this report, Julie Schenecker, the wife of US Army Colonel Parker Schenecker, shockingly murdered her two children, Carlyx, age 16, and Beau, age 13, in a sudden bloody rampage that has left family and neighbors stunned as to why a devoted wife and mother would point blank shoot her most beloved possessions to death.

US media reports about Julie Schenecker describe a devoted wife to her career US Army Officer husband (who at the time of his family’s massacre was stationed in the Middle East) and loving mother to her children, all being described as the “perfect” all-American family.

Educated at the University of Iowa, Julie Schenecker had also accompanied her husband to the many US Military bases he served at around the world, including in Germany where she worked as a Russian linguist for the US Army in Munich.

In 2008, Julie Schenecker and her family moved to Tampa, Florida where her husband, by then a US Army Colonel assigned to the US Central Command which oversees the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and began living a life described by her childhood friend Sylvia Carroll as being the “epitome of what wholesome is”.

The same, however, cannot be said about her husband, US Army Colonel Parker Schenecker, who, like all American Military personnel heading towards their war zones in the Middle East and Asia, was “more than likely” given one, or a combination of the powerful psychotropic drugs Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil or Cymbalta, all of which carry mandatory “suicide warnings” and have been linked to nearly every single massacre in the United States for the past two-decades.

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Family Massacre In US Linked To American Military Murder Drugs

Murder in Tampa studied by Russian President Medvedev

Veterans of Russia's Vietnam give grim warming 20 years on

Veterans of Russia's Vietnam give grim warming 20 years on
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 17/02/2009
Reporter: Scott Bevan
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. During the 1980’s, at the height of the Cold War, Afghanistan was the scene of a devastating and bloody struggle between Soviet troops and Mujahideen insurgents. The conflict lasted a decade and is often referred to as Russia’s Vietnam. Now, both veterans and historians warn that international forces should heed the lessons from that bitter
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http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2494021.htm

A soldier's courage, obscure since WWI, is given due tribute

A soldier's courage, obscure since WWI, is given due tribute
By Jonnelle Marte
Globe Correspondent / September 15, 2008
EVERETT - Little is known about Fred Dulevitz's life.

It is unclear when his family moved to the United States from Russia, how long he lived in Massachusetts, or whether he graduated from high school.

More is known about his death, however.

Military records show that US Army Private Dulevitz was just 19 years old and had already earned the French Croix de Guerre award for bravery when he died during one of the deadliest battles of World War I, at Verdun in northeast France.

He volunteered for what was surely a suicidal mission: going through the German trenches to get a message to an American battalion commander.

He also earned a Purple Heart and, after his death on Oct. 28, 1918, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Those accolades were recognized on a new tombstone dedicated yesterday at the unmarked grave in Glenwood cemetery where he has lain for decades.

Dulevitz's bravery is no longer buried in obscurity.

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War is absurd, says Russian pilot shot down over Georgia

Major Markovich, who suffered burns to his arms and a spinal injury, had nothing but praise for his captors, who had treated him excellently from the outset. "This is an absurd situation," he said. "For thousands of years Russians and Georgians have been living together and now we have war and innocent people are dying. It was all started by politicians and I don't understand why."

War is absurd, says Russian pilot shot down over Georgia

By Shaun Walker in Tbilisi
Saturday, 16 August 2008

Most of the patients in the labyrinthine Gudushauri Hospital on the eastern outskirts of Tbilisi are being treated for injuries suffered during the Russian invasion, with more than 600 people admitted in the past few days.


But in one corridor, sealed off by eight black-clad guards armed with Kalashnikov rifles, there were two patients very different from the rest.

Vyacheslav Markovich and Igor Zinov were not fleeing from the Russian attack, they were leading it. On 9 August, their planes were hit by anti-aircraft fire, forcing them to eject and parachute to the ground. Georgia claims to have destroyed 15 planes during the conflict, killing two Russian pilots and capturing a further two during the first days of the conflict.

Georgia intends to negotiate with Russia to exchange them for captured Georgian soldiers, the Interior Ministry said.

The Russian patients said they were being treated well. Both are bed-bound and are held in separate rooms, although their guards have kept them updated on the progress of the war.


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Reporter shot in Georgia remains on camera

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Reporter shot in Georgia 1:19
While on-air, a reporter is grazed by a bullet and goes on to say the shot was fired from the Russian-controlled area.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/14/vo.gerogia.journalist.shot.gerogiastatetv

Bears eat two workers in remote Russian region

Kamchatka has a 12,000-strong bear population, the largest in Eurasia. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP

Bears eat two workers in remote Russian region
· Marksmen on alert as geologists trapped at site
· Salmon poaching deprives animals of food source
Luke Harding in Moscow The Guardian, Thursday July 24, 2008
Up to 30 hungry and desperate bears have attacked and eaten two men in Russia's wild far eastern region of Kamchatka, and have trapped a group of geologists at their remote site.

The bears - apparently starving - killed the men last Thursday, Russian agencies reported. The bears had surrounded a local platinum mining company. Both victims worked at the mine as security guards.

About 400 geologists and miners are now refusing to return to work, afraid of further attacks. Attempts by local officials to fly to the scene by helicopter and shoot the bears have so far failed, because of bad weather, agencies reported.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/24/russia.wildlife