Life for a deployed soldier, sailor, airman, marine or coastie can be days of boredom interrupted by hours of fighting/ops. During the down time, people like to read to get their mind off the hostilities and they LOVE to get packages from home. But did you know that many of our youngest troops get NOTHING from home. No mail, no letters, no cookies, nothing. Ever. From 1st Sgts in Iraq andAfghanistan we hear things like “Could someone please send Private XXX some books or a card or something. He never gets mail and it is hard to watch the dissapointment in his face everyday when others get stuff at Mail Call and his name is never called.” We support the organization Books for Soldiers, a ZERO overhead kind of operation that helps you put the books and magazines you no longer want (along with baby wipes to wipe sand off goggles and scarves to block sand from noses, and toothpaste and Duncan Donuts coffee and a million other inexpensive things) into the hands of our troops. Hit the site and pack up those books you would otherwise donate to a charity stateside! www.BooksForSoldiers.com
The Association of Old Crows, the world's premier Electronic and Information Warfare organization: www.crows.org
DOD's Joint Vision 2010: http://www.dtic.mil/jointvision
Various Intructions from the Chairman of the JCS: http://www.dtic.mil/cjcs_directives/cjcs/instructions.htm
The US Air Force: http://www.af.mil
The US Army: http://www.army.mil
The US Navy: http://www.navy.mil
The US Marine Corps: http://www.usmc.mil
DOD DII for DOD Architectural Framework: http://www.defenselink.mil/nii/doc
One of the most innovative, successful industrial design firms in the world: http://www.ideo.com/
Explains the world around us in an entertaining and easy-to-grasp way: http://www.flyingcircusofphysics.com/
Human Factors design mistakes from everyday life: http://www.baddesigns.com/
International Conference on Systems Engineering: www.incose.org
World Future Society: www.wfs.org
For unbiased news from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: http://www.michaelyon-online.com
Website of Edward Tufte, master of portraying complex information in intuitive fashion: http://www.edwardtufte.com
A great organization that tries to make deployed soldiers’ lives easier: Soldiersangels@gmail.com
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