The Veterans Day National Committee (VDNC) chose the winner of this years’ 2023 Veteran’s Day Poster Contest (in a 2023 mid-year time frame). The winner was chosen, and Gene Russell, a VA employee, and Disabled US Army Infantry Veteran (Service Related Disability) has been honored with this years’ winning poster. So, when all was said and done - after examining 60 entries - the Committee had chosen Gene Russell’s ‘ The Bugler’. Outstanding.
Lest We Forget: All Gave Some, Some Gave All
Memorial Day 2019
Training Gamification, CIA Board Game →
Due to FOIA requests...
via Sam Machkovech, writing at the beloved Ars Technica, reports on the general availability of a United States Central Intelligence Agency training object for analyst assets. All due to a FOIA request filed (reportedly) a year ago. Enjoy!
"A series of Freedom of Information Act requests, filed last June by Southern California tech entrepreneur Doug Palmer, finally bore fruit last week. The CIA has now released rules, art, and design documents for the two board games we played at last year's SXSW." - via Sam Machkovech, writing at the beloved Ars Technica
The Insectothopter, Lightweight Surveillance from the CIA →
Allison Marsh, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina), succintly writes - via the IEEE's Spectrum Magazine - on a tradecraft tool from the United States Central Intelligence Agency - behold, the Insectothopter. Certainly, a stepping stone to more robust, capable devices that facilitates competent intelligence gathering. Todays' Hardware Must Read!
The Porter
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (April 7, 2017) The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017.
Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/Released)
Happy Thanksgiving
Remember our Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Intelligence Services Personnel world wide during the Thanksgiving Holiday. Heroes All.