Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims he is “perfectly honest” when he says, “I don’t know what she was talking about.” Rumsfeld was responding to a question from Scott Hennen with WDAY radio in Fargo, N.D., who wanted to know if Rumsfeld agreed with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who said the US had made thousands of tactical errors in Iraq. He went on to explain, “Commanders have to constantly make tactical adjustments,” because the “enemy’s got a brain” and “constantly adjusts.”
Trainees in Basic Military Training and technical school no longer have the option to try alternate PT drills if they fail an initial assessment, according to a policy change the Air Force made in April. The move is part of a larger shift out of the classroom and into hands-on,…