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ChrisCarroll_

  1. In the unlikely event you've not already read Neil Shea's grim story of being an uninvited house guest in Afg: theamericanscholar.org/a-gathering-me…
  2. New Stripes Pentagon reporter coming on board soon: Jennifer Hlad @jhlad. Welcome! With two of us here, I'll have time to tweetmore! Yeahh!
  3. One build of Android has been OK'd for limited use on DOD networks: stripes.com/blogs/stripes-… iPhone, iPad still verboten (on networks anyway.)
  4. With Android STIG likely next month, it's likely to beat Apple iOS into the Pentagon... maybe:stripes.com/news/in-dod-ra…
  5. DOD people - are you hacked off you can't (or you're not SUPPOSED to) use your iPhone for work email? stripes.com/news/ipads-iph…
  6. There will be no media coverage allowed, and DOD won't even make visual records of the ceremonies for posterity.
  7. Pentagon says 2 planes with bodies of troops killed in Afghanistan copter crash, including the Afghans, landed at Dover after 10 am EDT Tues
  8. Like a vicious, Georgian Mark Twain, Stalin was full of great one liners: brainyquote.com/quotes/authors…
  9. It was Stalin - and not an admiral, as Sen. Collins just said - who supposedly said "quantity is a quality of its own" or something similar.
  10. My Natl. Geo. robots story, on newstands today. ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/08/robots… Wish more military robotics had survived the cuts, but ah well.
  11. Pentagon launches website devoted to cyber D (no cyber O, however) defense.gov/cyber
  12. New: The services have turned in DADT repeal paperwork. Are they reporting they're ready? They won't even tell the Pentagon spokesman.
  13. I just saw a small patch of blue in the sky over Kennedy SC... Need a bit more to launch, though.
  14. Wet n wild at Kennedy Space Center http://yfrog.com/kld81dj
  15. Lightning warning delaying NASA's rollback of rotating service structure - 130 ft high retractable thing that gives access to shuttle on pad
  16. Sierra Nevada Corp. just signed agreement w/ NASA admin Charles Bolden to develop/launch private space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center
  17. Space journalists...nerdy even by journalist standards. Tv cameramen are terrifying as ever though.
  18. Clouds gathering over the space center early Wed pm...
  19. 70 pct chance of t-storm scrubbing shuttle launch Friday, shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters says. 60 pct chance Friday and 40 pct Sunday
  20. Shuttle isn't the end, a panel of scientists at KSC is saying. 4 big NASA science missions slated for this year, the next flying to Jupiter.