The Amundsen–Scott Station is located at the South Pole, the southernmost place on the Earth. It is the only place on the land surface of the Earth where the sun is continuously up for six months and then continued down for six months. (The only other such place is at the North Pole, on the […]
BY: BARBARA ELLESTAD — “God kept us there for a reason,” said Kris “Tanto” Paronto about the night the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi fell to a terrorist attack Sep. 11, 2012. “Three of us were supposed to leave 10 days earlier. If we had left on schedule I believe the casualty count would have been higher.” Speaking […]
Private Military Contractors (PMC), or private military or a security company, provides military and armed security services. These combatants are commonly known as mercenaries, though modern-day PMCs euphemistically prefer to refer to their staff as security contractors or private military contractors. The services and expertise offered by PMCs are typically similar to those of governmental, […]
Wes Bearden spent the last 18 months working in the Middle East as a Military Defense Contractor. After long hours providing help for American troops, he must make the adjustment to being back home. Defense contracting has expanded dramatically over the last decade, particularly in the United States, where in the last fiscal year the […]
Because it lies in the southern hemisphere, seasons in Antarctica are the opposite of seasons in the north. Summer runs from October to February and winter covers the remainder of the year. The last plane left Antarctica around Febuary 15, 2015. For about the next six months a staff of cooks, facilities workers, and a handful of […]