Donald Rumsfeld pens his memoir - Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's memoir, due out in January, has been titled "Known and Unknown." Sound familiar? His famous quote from 2002, on the lack of evidence of WMD in Iraq: "There are known knowns ... things we know that we know. There are known unknowns ... things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do know we don't know." Washington Post Reliable Source blog
Marines train with Singapore Armed Forces - Marines and sailors of the 1st Marine Division and soldiers from the Singaporean Army kicked off a bilateral training exercise dubbed 'Valiant Mark 10-2' with an opening ceremony yesterday at Camp Pendleton. The exercise is scheduled through Oct. 17, 2010. Valiant Mark 10-2 is designed to expose both military units to new tactics, weapons and training to enhance the relationship, dialogue and common understanding between both services. The training will focus on urban operations, high-end war fighting, live-fire and maneuver at the company level, and mechanized combined arms training. Training will be conducted at Camp Pendleton and Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twenty-nine Palms, Calif. USMC
Children of Al Qaeda pay for sins of their fathers - The daughter of an Al Qaeda militant in Iraq who forced her mother into marriage and motherhood, then disappeared, Zahraa is one of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children whose births amid the anarchy and insurgent violence of Iraq were never legally recorded. Without the paperwork to prove that she is the child of an Iraqi man and that her parents were joined in a legitimate marriage before her birth, Zahraa and others like her have no rights as Iraqi citizens, legal experts say. They do not have birth certificates, passports or national identification cards and will be unable to go to school or hold a government job. Washington Post
Marines sweat it out with Guatemalan Kaibiles - At a remote training camp nestled deep within the Guatemalan countryside, a small detachment of U.S. Marines from Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 conducted a week-long subject-matter expert exchange with Guatemalan Special Forces soldiers or 'Kaibiles,' near the vicinity of Poptun, Guatemala. Poptun Kaibil Training Camp is where the Guatemalan Army trains its regular Army soldiers to become Kaibiles, or elite warriors specializing in jungle warfare and counter-insurgency operations. Their arduous 60-day training course, which is conducted twice a year, is designed to weed out the weak and graduate only the best of candidates. 'In a class of about 40 candidates, only seven or eight make it to the end and become Kaibiles,' said Col. Victor L. Diaz,commanding officer of the Kaibil training school. War on Terror News
Air Force, Navy working together on Guam Global Hawks - U.S. Air Force and Navy Global Hawks operating from Andersen AFB in Guam may share ground support and occasionally cover each other's missions as part of an agreement between the two services to coordinate their high-altitude surveillance operations. Speaking at a ceremony this week to mark the arrival of the first of three Global Hawks in Guam, Lt. Gen. Herbert Carlisle, commander of 13th Air Force, and Pacific Air Forces Cmdr. Gen. Gary North said the unmanned aircraft are not being deployed for operations against any particular country. But 'people have a tendency to behave when other people are watching them,' Carlisle added. Aviation Week
