Bob McCarty Writes

By Bob McCarty
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The question of whether members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities should be allowed to use waterboarding and other forms of torture during interrogations might be largely irrelevant today [...]

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Nearly two weeks have passed since I published a post (”Is Tech ‘Turf War’ Putting U.S. Troops at Risk“) about my attempts to learn about the effectiveness — or lack thereof — of the military’s use of the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System. Today, I wonder if officials at U.S. Central Command will continue the [...]

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When I served as an Air Force public affairs officer years ago, I had the privilege of working with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds on several crowd-pleasing occasions.  Therefore, when I saw the team — formally known as the “U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron” — had released the schedule for its 56th season, I [...]

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The November/December issue of AARP The Magazine features an interview of NBC’s Brian Williams, according to an AARP news release today.  While I’m certain the article is full of a lot of newsman wit and wisdom, I suspect readers of the silver-haired group’s publication might get a bigger kick out of my experience with “the [...]

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Twenty-two years ago today, I was a young Air Force second lieutenant attending the Public Affairs Officer Course at the Defense Information School, then located at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis. During a break from morning classes, I gathered with a dozen or so of my classmates from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps [...]

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