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U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Nathan Guidry (standing, left) and retired Marine Gunnery Sgt. David Moose (standing, right) train 16 Republic of Georgia soldiers at Krtsanisi, Georgia, to be communications trainers, Sept. 26, 2005, as part of the Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jonathan Moor Marines Teach Radio Skills to Georgian Soldiers The extensive, four-month training is preparing the Georgian battalion to accomplish their mission in Iraq. By U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jonathan Moor U.S. Marine Forces, Europe KRTSANISI, Georgia, Oct. 11, 2005 --- U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery...

Afghan Instructors Teach Afghan Soldiers The Afghan National Army's Command and General Staff College trains staff officers to serve in command positions at kandak (battalion) or higher levels. By U.S. Army Sgt. Mason T. Lowery Office of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan Public Affairs KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2005 - The Afghan National Army's Command and General Staff College graduated its sixth class Aug. 22 - the first class taught entirely by Afghan instructors. French officers first taught the four-month course when the staff college opened in 2004. They selected top Afghan graduates from the second class to become instructors. The French...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq, Aug. 23, 2005 — U.S. Army medics with the Division Support Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division are helping train the Iraqi Army in combat medic skills. U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew J. Carver and Spc. Richard J. Fourroux, combat medics with the 550th Area Support Medical Company, Brigade Troops Battalion, Division Support Brigade, are leading the efforts to train new Iraqi Army recruits to be full combat medics. "It’s a tough course. But, in the end, we learn what will enable us to save more lives while conducting operations out in the field." Iraqi Sgt. Qiass Al-Jobory Carver, who...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A bid by Mexican police to polish their image backfired after youngsters at a police summer camp were filmed chanting that they had killed their dads and tossed their sisters into ditches. Mexican newspapers and TV carried reports on Thursday that children as young as 6 were taught to belt out the lurid marching song at an elite federal police youth camp for up to 3,000 kids near Mexico City. "I never had a father, and now I never will, the only one I had, I killed," the grinning youngsters chanted in the clip shot at...

MARCH AIR FORCE RESERVE BASE, Calif. (August 3, 2005) -- With the ever changing mission in Iraq, the Marine Corps has called on our allies from “Down Under” to help add a different aspect to pre-deployment training. Ten Soldiers with the Australian Army are currently working alongside Marine instructors providing pre-deployment training to the Marines of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment and thousands of other troops in the Marine Corps. “We’re just really glad to get the opportunity to come here and help put an Australian twist on the Marine Corps training,” said Australian Army Capt. Roy Henry, an instructor...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - With the spin of a numbered wheel, an Afghan child might land in an ambush by turbaned gunmen. Another turn could lead a young player to the safety of a health clinic or classroom. They are all scenarios 10- to 14-year-olds must confront in The Road to Peace, a colorful new board game unveiled Thursday by the United Nations in an effort to educate local youngsters about Afghanistan's troubled past and its hopes for the future. Some 10,000 copies of the game are being handed out nationwide to war-affected children, former child soldiers and refugee families,...

While the master of double talk just died, others are using the same strategy to advance their somber cause. I am of course talking of Palestinian Authority Chairman Arafat who used and abused double talk. While he pretended in English that he had turned the page on his terrorist past to become a respectable statesman, his rhetoric in Arabic never moved an iota. By not having paid attention to his speeches in Arabic, the whole world fell into Arafat’s trap, except some outstanding visionaries such as Norman Podhoretz who had his eyes and ears wide open. The new students of...

One result of the terrorist threats is a steady business in the gun shops. Many thousands of Americans have been purchasing their first weapon, then wondering about all the little associated problems -- like, what to do with it. That handgun is designed to kill people. That's about it. Other than acting as a paperweight in the "in box," there's not much else it can do effectively. On the other hand, handguns have a lot in common with other tools, such as a chain saw or automobiles. All can kill people when used improperly. All require some specific knowledge to...

People from all walks of life keep asking me the same question: “Are there moderate Muslims?” I know myself that there are, but… Many of the moderates are faced with intimidation by militant Muslims (“Islamists”). Muslims also have to contend with their own old cultural habits, hateful religious leaders, a bigoted press, and schools that teach hatred and homicide bombings. As usual, just as things seem the darkest, I happen upon something that brightens my spirit -- at least a little. Last week, FOXNews mentioned the organization “Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism” (FMCAT). I immediately went to their website, and...

We are always right. Or at least, we are never wrong Hundreds of jubilant Iraqis mobbed a convoy of U.S. Marines on Wednesday, cheering, dancing and waving as American troops swept toward central Baghdad through slums and leafy suburbs from the east. Crowds threw flowers at the Marines as they drove past the Martyrs' Monument, just three kilometres east of the central Jumhuriya Bridge over the Tigris River. -- Reuters, April 9 There are so many things we will have to teach the people of Iraq. They must know why we opposed this war, why we could not go to...

Eating humans is a trait that can be learned (Pic: Melbourne Zoo)  Eating humans is learned behaviour passed down through generations of lions, suggests surprising new American research. The study by Dr Julian Peterhans and Thomas Gnoske of The Field Museum in Chicago is published in the latest issue of the Journal of East African Natural History. It originally began as an attempt to dispel a longstanding myth about a pair of lions in the museum's collection. Legend has it that in 1898, two lions killed 135 workers building a bridge near Tsavo, Kenya. The attack, over nine months,...

ORATORY Oratory is more than ordinary speech. It is a special kind of public speaking. The orator speaks for a special purpose, in a special way, at a special time. Buehler and Johannesen define oratory as "a memorized, original, persuasive speech, dealing with worth-while subject matter of timely interests, demonstrating qualities of logic, organization, language, and delivery, and producing an effect of eloquence which is far above the ordinary." Oratory rises above the common level of speech and has a greater level of appeal and emotional impact of the listener. Its purpose is to impress, convince, or move the speaker...

Retired military officers working with teen-agers to teach patriotism By Andrea BillupsTHE WASHINGTON TIMESRetired military officers from around the nation are volunteering their time to teach teen-agers the importance of patriotism, a value they say is missing from the education of today's youth. Members of the Military Order of the World Wars, a nonprofit group for officers of all uniformed services, offer free scholarships to 10,000 high school students each year to attend leadership conferences where they learn about respect, accountability, free enterprise and service to country. The students also hear speakers who lecture about U.S. history, the flag...

Experts estimate dogs' sense of smell is 1,000 to 100,000 times more sensitive than humans'.   Dog Doctors Training Dogs to Detect Prostate Cancer With Their Noses By Amanda Onion June 11 — Dogs could soon become man's best friend when it comes to detecting prostate cancer if new research plans are successful. <! -- begin print page / send page box --> Researchers at Cambridge University Veterinary School in England are awaiting funding to test the viability of what they call "dognoseis" — detecting the traces of prostate cancer by training dogs to smell signatures of the disease...

Drop French, say heads and teach Urdu instead By Macer Hall, Education Correspondent (Filed: 02/06/2002) Head teachers will this week call for schools to teach African and Asian languages instead of French and German in a reform designed to reflect the "ethnic mix" of the British population. At its annual conference in Torquay, the National Association of Head Teachers will discuss giving African languages, including Somali and Hausa, the same importance as the main European tongues. The head teachers also suggest that Albanian, Punjabi and Urdu be added to the curriculum. They say that expanding the teaching of such languages...