The Crazy Person Behind The Daily Caller's Free-Gun Giveaway - Media Matters
24 May 2012, 10:36 am
The Daily Caller wants to give you a free gun. A free gun with the Bill of Rights inscribed on the slide, presumably so that not all of your patriotism has to go downrange. These weapons are made by Jim Pontillo, the owner of FMK Firearms.

Eglin F-35 initial cadre starts transition training - Flight Global.com
24 May 2012, 12:20 am
"When I'm downrange in Badguyland that's the configuration I need to have confidence in maneuvering, and that's where I think the F-35 starts to edge out an aircraft like the F-16," Kloos says. A combat-configured F-16 is encumbered with weapons ...

MICHAEL WINSHIP: Warriors are not the only wounded - MPNnow
23 May 2012, 11:02 pm
The Critical Care Air Transport teams and their C-17 Globemasters will fly in from “downrange,” as they call the Afghan battleground, and the injured will be brought by ambulance bus from nearby Ramstein Air Force Base to the hospital front door.

US space programme in shock metric conversion - The Register
22 May 2012, 11:21 am
Listen carefully... That's right, at around 1:10, a mission control operative explains: "Altitude 5.3 kilometres, velocity 225 metres per second, and downrange distance of six-tenths of a kilometre." Let's take a moment to consider just how monumentous ...

Balancing Act: 633rd LRS supplies downrange warfighters - AF.mil
22 May 2012, 7:39 am
5/22/2012 - LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- A few inches could mean the difference between a C-17 Globemaster III successfully delivering supplies to a deployed environment, or dropping out of the sky like a stone. Those inches come from the arrangement and ...

Culinary experts demonstrate flare for flavor, vie for title of division Iron Chefs - United States Army
21 May 2012, 7:55 am
Some of the teams recently returned from deployment, Merritt said, adding that food service Soldiers do a lot more than cook downrange. "We know that we can put a rifle in your hand or a spoon in your hand," he noted. "This was a tight ...

New rifle qual features more lifelike scenarios - Air Force Times
21 May 2012, 6:22 am
Some are prepping for deployments downrange and others are getting ready for permanent change-of-station moves to international bases. The rest are there for their annual qualification because their job requires it. But in about eight hours ...

Hollywood and the White House’s Election-Year PR Push For Veterans - Daily Beast
20 May 2012, 3:38 am
The actor Tracy Morgan in a PSA from the "Got Your 6" campaign. (GotYour6.org) I know they can’t bring back my friends and fellow soldiers who died downrange, or the ones who came back but committed suicide, died of a drug overdose ...

Understanding what it is to be a new creation - Examiner
18 May 2012, 11:48 am
We stacked our weapons, shed our flak vests, moved out entrenching tools to our cargo belt, topped off our canteens and proceeded downrange.  We arrived quickly and began putting out the fire with dirt.  After a few minutes the Japanese Fire Department arrived. 

Tripler graduates new PAs to Army Medicine - United States Army
17 May 2012, 9:00 pm
"I think anything that makes a PA a better clinician is better for the people they take care of, especially when they send PAs downrange to take care of our Soldiers who are in combat," Mallon explained. The students of Class 2-10 were asked to ...