The Iraq Army Aviation Command accepted delivery of four new Mi-171E helicopters at its headquarters in Taji, as two were delivered Jan. 16 followed two more Jan. 23.

This latest delivery brings Iraq Army Aviation Command's total inventory of Mi-171E helicopters to 14, as part of a foreign-military-sales purchase made by the Iraqi Ministry of Defense. The delivery was part of an ongoing deal coordinated with the help of U.S. Forces-Iraq's Iraq Security Assistance Mission.

Since October, approximately 15 ordnance Marines with Support Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 3, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) have repaired and returned more than 500 weapon systems to coalition units operating in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
In Afghanistan, coalition personnel face an unforgiving terrain that can damage their equipment. The primary function of CLB-3’s ordnance Marines is to support infantry and artillery units operating in Helmand province by repairing weapon systems that cannot be fixed at the organizational level and returning them in a timely manner.

Article by Alan Korwin

1- New Gun Safety Rules Introduced

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NEW GUN-SAFETY RULES ISSUED

Protection of the innocent is at stake

A new set of firearm-safety rules has been introduced.

A Chinese pianist who performed at the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao last week chose an anti-American propaganda song from the Korean War. The song is "My Motherland" from a popular Chinese movie, Battle on Shangganling Mountain.

Once again SOF is endorsing a list of candidates for the NRA Board of Directors:

Video by Regional Command Southwest

At least 35 people have been killed and more than 145 others wounded in a suicide bombing that ripped through the international arrivals section of Moscow's main airport terminal Monday.

Witnesses said people covered in blood poured through the emergency exits. Video footage shows bodies lying around the smoke filled area, and victims being carried out of the Domodedovo airport on stretchers.

As vote tabulation nears an end in southern Sudan, preliminary results indicate voters are likely to choose overwhelmingly to separate from the rest of Sudan in order to form an independent state. Whatever the outcome, southern Sudanese leaders face many challenges. One is the arrival of thousands of southern Sudanese from the north.

River barges loaded with southern Sudanese and their belongings dock regularly at the dirt embankment of Juba port.

On average, 2,000 southerners arrive each day, most of them returning home for good.

Ivory Coast's incumbent government says it is not intimidated by threats to be removed from power by a regional intervention force. West African leaders have replaced the head of the region's central bank to further isolate the incumbent president in favor of the internationally-recognized winner of November's vote.