Houston you have a problem & other news

The lawyer said he fears some anti-G suits in the military’s inventory are flawed because a Defense Department agency changed specifications for fibers in the garments, making some of them defective over time. The suits are designed to reduce the effects of high gravitational forces on pilots.

“While no one can know with 100 percent certainty why Captain Ziegler experienced G-LOC (loss-of-consciousness), unless action is taken to correct the anti-G suit defect, similar unexplained tragedies will befall other service members,” Steven Karalekas, an attorney for anti-G suit manufacturer Derm/Buro Inc., said Thursday.

Air Force investigators concluded in a final report released in November that Ziegler, a 30-year-old pilot from West Fargo, N.D., blacked out because he didn’t adequately perform a muscle straining exercise in the cockpit. The maneuver prevents loss of consciousness from high gravitational forces. (Click HERE for article)

Service contractors are “increasingly unaffordable”
Nick Schwellenbach (Battleland Blogs) – January 5, 2012 – President Obama didn’t mention them. Nor did Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. No word on them by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey either. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter? Didn’t happen. Under Secretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy? Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs James Winnefeld? Nope. Nada.

Who wasn’t mentioned at today’s big press event announcing a defense strategic review, A.K.A. the plan to shrink and prioritize different parts of the military?

So what, you might ask. Well, internal Pentagon experts see service contractors as eating the defense budget alive. Out-of-control outsourcing with inadequate controls on cost over the years has created an expensive “total force” at the Defense Department. The total force is the mix of uniformed personnel, federal civilian workers and contractor employers. (Click HERE for article)

Cover-Up Alleged in Georgia National Guard
Lisa Coston – (Courthouse News) – MARIETTA, Ga. – December 8, 2011 - The former director of the Georgia National Guard says he was fired after blowing the whistle on “highly disturbing ethical issues and misconduct” of the Adjutant General and the Commander of the state Guard.

Brig. Gen Larry Dudney also claims that Gov. Nathan Deal’s office simultaneously announced the “unscheduled” retirement of both Dudney and the man he criticized, in order to halt any investigation.

Dudney sued his immediate supervisors, Adjutant Gen. William Nesbitt and Commander Maj. Gen. Maria Britt, alleging “violations of standing laws, rules and regulations, to include inappropriate and unethical conduct by senior officials, abuse of authority and discretion, undue command influence, improper endorsement of a product and services, misuse of government property, false statements, preferential treatment, suppressed investigation of a criminal matter, improper hiring practices, failure to maintain good order and discipline, and misappropriation of government property.” (Click HERE for article) (Click HERE for Complaint)

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