VR to Teach Air Force Soldiers Sexual Assault Prevent and Response Skills

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

The US Air Force is using VR Gaming Software to help train soldiers on how to defend themselves against potential assault. The program is called SAPT (Sexual Assault Prevent and Response Training) and is designed to help people avoic becoming victims and, if they do become victims, what to do afterwars, as well as how others can be prepared to help potential victims of sexual assault.

How the Air Force is using VR for sexual assault prevention training

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-08-30 18:30:01
Dean Takahashi
Excerpt:

The virtual reality company Moth + Flame has partnered with the U.S. Air Force to create a VR training program to show people how to prevent sexual assault and how to properly respond to it if it happens.

The program, dubbed sexual assault prevent and response training (SAPR), focuses on training Air Force personnel how to use intervention skills, advocate for victims, and how to report incidents, said Carmen Shott, SAPR program manager at Air Mobility Command (AMC), in an interview with VentureBeat.

The training is considered important because a report in March said there were a total of 1,661 reports of sexual assault in the Air Force in 2020, according to a report by the Department of Defense. Previously, New York-based Moth + Flame created a VR training module related to suicide prevention, and this week happens to be National Suicide Prevention Week.

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Bomb-Drone Attack on Saudi Airport Claims 8 Casualties

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

Saudi Arabia Says Drone Attack On Airport Wounded At Least 8

From iranintl.com
2021-08-31 13:01:31

Excerpt:

A bomb-laden drone on Tuesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, wounding eight people and damaging a civilian plane, Saudi state television reported.

It was the latest assault on the kingdom amid its grinding war in neighboring Yemen. The earlier attack, blamed on Yemen’s Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, scattered shrapnel across the tarmac but caused no casualties. There have been dozens of such attacks in recent months since the US delisted Yemen’s Houthis from its terririst list.

The Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen did not elaborate on the assault or provide details about those hurt, beyond saying that its forces had “intercepted” the explosive drone.

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China Building 400 Super Secure Nuclear Silos

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

China Building Over 400 New Ultra-hardened Nuclear Silos

From www.nextbigfuture.com
2021-08-31 03:17:55
Brian Wang
Excerpt:

Satellite images taken by Planet and analyzed by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (CNS/MIIS) show that China is significantly expanding the number of silos for its arsenal of intercontinental range-ballistic missiles. 120 silos under construction near Yumen were identified by Decker Eveleth, a former nonproliferation fellow at CNS/MIIS and incoming student. Yuman silos started construction in early 2020.

A second Hami missile silo field was found. It is in a much earlier stage of development than the Yumen site. Construction began at the start of March 2021 in the southeastern corner of the complex and continues at a rapid pace. Since then, dome shelters have been erected over at least 14 silos and soil cleared in preparation for the construction of another 19 silos. The grid-like outline of the entire complex indicates that it may eventually include approximately 110 silos. The Hami site was…

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American Blackhawk Helicopter Already Repurposed for Grizzly Taliban Job

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

After US Exit From Afghanistan, Video Of Taliban Flying US Chopper With Dangling Body

From www.ndtv.com
2021-08-31 12:24:22

Excerpt:

A body dangled from a US military chopper being flown by the Taliban, reportedly over Kandahar in Afghanistan, in a chilling video shared on Tuesday by several journalists and what the Taliban claims is their official handle.

The tweets surfaced hours after the US wrapped up a messy exit from Afghanistan around midnight, with the last of its troops flying out in military aircraft. NDTV cannot confirm the authenticity of this video.

The “Talib Times” – its Twitter bio calls it “the English language official account of Islamic Emirate Afghanistan” – claimed that the chopper was “patrolling the city”, without once mentioning the body hanging on a rope from the US Black Hawk.

“Our Air Force! At this time, the Islamic Emirate’s air force helicopters are flying over Kandahar city and patrolling the city,” said the tweet.

Our Air Force!
At this time, the Islamic Emirate’s air force helicopters are flying over Kandahar city and patrolling the city. pic.twitter.com/rlE6nUldZf

— Talib Times (@TalibTimes) August 30, 2021

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Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Sacrifices Career to Send Afghan Indictment to Marine Brass

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

Marine Commander Relieved Of Duty For Demanding Accountability From Military Leadership

From legalinsurrection.com
2021-08-28 23:30:03
Fuzzy Slippers
Excerpt:

Marine commander Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller made the decision to post a video in which he, in uniform, demands military leadership accountability for the absolute disgrace, dishonor, and all-around cluster in Afghanistan.

With a shockingly sophomoric, greedy, gleaming and highly politicized eye on a glorious twentieth anniversary of 9/11 photo-op followed (they imagined) by slathering adulation from the legacy media, the bungling Biden administration, including its cowardly ‘woke’ military top brass, have made abysmal, catastrophic decisions that have (so far) cost the lives of 13 members of our military and at least 100 Afghans.

Colonel Scheller was justifiably furious about and grieving the completely foreseeable and entirely preventable deaths of a dozen of his Marine brothers and that of a Navy corpsman.

He notes that military leadership had an honor-bound duty to “throw their rank on the table” and defend America and our troops on the ground against bad…

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Biden Admin Now Claims Americans in Afghanistan Will Be Evacuated

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

If the Biden Adminstration is being transparent, then Americans still stranded in Afghanistan might be relieved to hear the adminstration is claiming they now have the resources to remove all the remaining Americans.

While it is hoped by some, including especially those abandoned by the US, that maybe this is true, it hasn’t the ring of truth. The US has no leverage over the crazed terrorist Mullahs and no way to protect anything or anyone in country on the ground.

President Biden kept his promise to the terrorists, whom his policies armed, but he broke his promise to Americans and our Afghan partners when he said the US wouldn’t physically leave until they were all evacuated. Now the goal post moves and the situation becomes more dire.

U.S. has capacity to evacuate remaining Americans from Afghanistan, officials say

From www.marketwatch.com
2021-08-29 20:21:00

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON — The United States has the capacity to evacuate the approximately 300 U.S. citizens remaining in Afghanistan who want to leave before President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline, senior Biden administration officials said Sunday, as another U.S. drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants underscored the grave threat in the war’s final days.

“This is the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission these last couple of days,” America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said not long before confirmation of that airstrike in Kabul, the capital.

The evacuation flow of Americans kept pace even as a new State Department security alert, issued hours before the military action, instructed people to leave the airport area immediately “due to a specific, credible threat.”

Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan said that for those U.S. citizens seeking immediately to…

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Chinese Waters Get New Regs for Foreign Ships

Freedomist Editor August 30, 2021

China notifies new rules to regulate foreign ships in its waters

From www.businesstoday.in
2021-08-29 22:32:16

Excerpt:

In a bid to regulate foreign ships, China on Sunday notified new maritime rules warranting vessels carrying radioactive materials, bulk oil, chemicals and a host of other supplies to report the details of the cargos upon their entry into Chinese waters.

The new rules are expected to increase tensions if China strictly enforces them in the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan straits where the US and its allies have been conducting naval expeditions, challenging Beijing’s claims to assert the freedom of navigation.

Beijing claims almost all of the 1.3 million square-mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory. China has been building military bases on artificial islands in the region also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

According to a notice from China’s maritime safety authorities issued over the weekend, operators of submersibles, nuclear vessels, ships carrying radioactive materials and ships carrying bulk oil, chemicals, liquefied gas…

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US Army Prepares to Inveil Latest Missile Defense System, IBCS

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

The Army Is Preparing to Reveal Its New Missile Defense System

From nationalinterest.org
2021-08-29 10:00:00

Excerpt:

Fighter-jet-mounted guns, air-dropped bombs, ship-launched interceptor missiles, and ground-fired air defenses can only be as effective as the accuracy and timeliness of their targeting intelligence, a simple, known reality becoming increasingly pressing and relevant as the Pentagon surges ahead with its multi-domain networking strategy.

As part of this networking strategy, the Army is accelerating development of its Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS). The system consists of a collection of radars, fire control systems, weapons, and targeting nodes connected to one another to seamlessly share time-sensitive data in real-time. IBCS, which recently shot down several cruise missile targets in a live-fire test, is slated to become operational next year.

If an F-35 fighter jet is in position to attack an enemy ship first located by ground-based radar or ship-integrated targeting sensors, then targeting details need to be identified and transmitted in…

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Russian Military Loses Su-24

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

Russian Aerospace Forces Su-24 plane crashed near Perm

From defence-blog.com
2021-08-27 16:04:31
Dylan Malyasov
Excerpt:

Details are still limited, but a Russian Aerospace Forces Su-24 Fencer combat jet has crashed in the city of Perm, near the Ural Mountains. According to local media, Su-24 crashed Friday while during a scheduled flight for repairs. “While flying to an aircraft repair company for scheduled repairs, a Su-24 plane crashed 95 kilometers [59 miles] […]

The post Russian Aerospace Forces Su-24 plane crashed near Perm first appeared on Defence Blog.

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Iran Looking to Maximize Force Power Through Autonomous Military

Freedomist Curator August 30, 2021

Iran’s Bet on Autonomous Weapons

From warontherocks.com
2021-08-30 07:45:23
Evan Omeed Lisman
Excerpt:

Attempting to pass off a child’s astronaut costume as an innovation of Iran’s space agency was bizarre but familiar. Shared online by Minister of Information and Communications Technology Azari Jahromi in February 2020, the fit-for-Halloween suit exemplified the Iranian government’s penchant for fabricating technical achievements, whether through farcical stealth fighter jets, fake space monkeys, or oil drum surface-to-air missiles.

Iran’s history of shameless exaggeration leaves plenty of reason for skepticism when the nation’s military unveils new capabilities or when Iranian officials announce ambitious technological goals, as they did earlier this year. In a widely publicized January exercise, the Iranian Army…

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