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As you may have heard there has been a big name change, the name of the Newsletter is now the U.S. Training Tactical Weekly. We will endeavor to keep the great content that John Wrenn and his team have provided for the last year. If we have a few rough patches as we move forward please be patient.

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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

The post has some very cool satellite photographs created by a U.C.L.A. geography professor, Thomas Gillespie, who has published a paper in M.I.T. International Review that purports to use "biogeographic data," such as Bin Laden's last known location, cultural background, and other factors, "to create a mathematical model that he claims will show where the terror mastermind is hiding.

There are plenty of reasons to pay close attention to Iran's nuclear progress, but the new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report showing that the country has accumulated 1010 kg of low-enriched uranium is not at the top of my list.

That's not to say that this milestone is insignificant. We now know that Iran has accumulated enough low-enriched uranium (LEU) to yield sufficient high-enriched uranium for a single nuclear weapon should Iran decide to seize the material, which is under IAEA safeguards, further enrich it, and in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, use the material in a nuclear warhead. Luckily, given the international crisis this action would certainly provoke, Iran is unlikely to attempt the feat.

Because collecting intelligence is much like building a puzzle, where bits of information can be pieced together to form a complete whole, awareness of the importance of operational security is critical to accomplishing the mission. Operational Security, or "OPSEC," is based on the idea that the accumulation of many sensitive or unclassified pieces of information could compromise security by revealing classified information. Thus, OPSEC is an analytic process used to deny adversaries pieces of the information puzzle that, while unclassified, are still valuable.

02/04/09-Consumers need to be vigilant when seeking employment online. The IC3 continues to receive numerous complaints from individuals who have fallen victim to work-at-home scams.

Victims are often hired to "process payments," "transfer funds," or "reship products." These job scams involve the victims receiving and cashing fraudulent checks, transferring illegally obtained funds for the criminals, or receiving stolen merchandise and shipping it to the criminals.

(NaturalNews) The United States and other countries are going to begin distributing electronic passports this year, but a computer security consultant says he can clone the passports easily.

"The whole passport design is totally brain damaged," said Lukas Grunwald. "From my point of view all of these RFID passports are a huge waste of money. They're not increasing security at all."

Because encrypting the data on the e-passport's RFID chip would involve building a complicated infrastructure, countries have opted not to do so, but "if you can read the data, you can clone the data and put it in a new tag," Grunwald said.

Tactical Equipment Evaluation

Courtesy of CTList

LED flashlights have come a long way in the past few years and this flashlight is proof. The aperture is a prism reflector lens. It produces a center spot beam with a diffuse corona of white light around it. At a distance of 3 feet, the center spot is about 8 inches across. At 10 feet, the center spot is roughly 13 inches across. The center spot shows no dark blobs or spider lines. As the distance opens up, the center spot spreads and grows less defined, making targets easier to ID. If this sounds like a contradiction to you, read on.

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Recreational Equipment Review

Courtesy of Chuck Bennett

This may not be a new item but I wanted to mention it because I picked one up recently and had the opportunity to do some "light" travel with it. Extremely well built and with enough space to allow you to carry this as your only bag, this sucker held up to everything I could throw at it (including going through customs in Taiwan). With pockets seemingly everywhere there wasn't much I couldn't fit in this bag. I had two suits with extra shirts, the accompanying ties, belts AND shoes in there. Even fully loaded I was never uncomfortable hauling all this gear around the airport or waiting for my trains.

Full Story Can Be Viewed At:

http://www.borelliconsulting.com/recevals/campback/zerogoo.htm

Life in this world can be so simple. Like a moving train powered by a locomotive... We need two rails called a track to guide us. One rail is Faith...Faith is acting on something you know... But have only one way to prove to others that you know it... See Hebrews 11:1...

Full Story Can Be Viewed At:

http://www.ustraining.com/tw2009/article/022309chaplain.htm

Creatine's most notable trait is its role in the energy production process. It is an organic compound found in muscle fibers that is made from three amino acids: glycine, arginine, and methionine. ATP and CP (creatine phosphate) are stored in muscles and serve as a source of immediate energy.

The more ATP and CP that is in the muscles, the more the muscle can lift. Additional creatine can be obtained through consuming meat and fish. Many athletes choose to supplement with creatine, though, because cooking meat converts the creatine into creatine, which is easily flushed out of the body through the kidneys.

Here are some links for charitable organizations.

The U.S. Traning Center does not endorse any organization over another nor encourage charitable contributions, we provide these links as a public service, and take no responsibility for the actual sites. Although we strive to validate the sites before linking we caution you to do your own research, as the internet is ripe with scams.

Some Nonprofits Shortchange Troops, Watchdog Group Says
By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 13, 2007; Page A01

Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charities designed to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of the groups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leading watchdog organization and federal tax filings.

Eight veterans charities, including some of the nation's largest, gave less than a third of the money raised to the causes they champion, far below the recommended standard, the American Institute of Philanthropy says in a report. One group passed along 1 cent for every dollar raised, the report says. Another paid its founder and his wife a combined $540,000 in compensation and benefits last year, a Washington Post analysis of tax filings showed.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups

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