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U.S. Armed Forces Activities

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    California Sued For Shortchanging Business Owners With IOUs

    ​A National Guard veteran who sold $28,000 worth of uniforms to the state of California for a youth camp has filed a lawsuit against state officials, asserting the state violated state law by paying her with  IOUs in lieu of cash during last year's budget crisis.Nancy Baird, a resident of San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Lactating Women -- Haiti Needs Your Breast Milk

    Helping Haiti doesn't have to only pump your pocketbook. Use your breasts.  In a Valencia Street store window: Hope For Haiti ​A slew of human breast milk associations (yes, there are many) are imploring women with a generous heart and lactating bosoms to donate their milk to the closest milk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Top Ten Most Read Snitch Posts of 2009

    It's almost the end of the year, and we're extremely grateful to the readers who visited our site in 2009. Here are the Snitch posts that garnered the highest readership, and reflect what is truly important to you: sex, crime, and weed. And serial killers.10. Lawsuit Alleges ER Doctor Let Man D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Few Show For California Redwoods' Football Opener -- But Fans Still Manage to Have Fun (Legally and Illegally)

    Jim HerdThere is grandeur in this view of life...​Text by Joe Eskenazi. Gorgeous photos by Jim Herd. In the many months between when we first reported the inception of the San Francisco-based United Football League up to the moment we wandered into a largely abandoned AT&T Park for the Saturda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    San Francisco Slips Beneath the Waves -- But This Is a Good Thing

    U.S. NavyThe U.S.S. San Francisco rides againJust as cranks who warn us we're playing with our lives for living in the natural disaster Mecca that is California predicted, San Francisco yesterday sank beneath the waves of the Pacific and headed for the bottom of the ocean. But that's okay. San Franc ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2009

    JROTC under fire in S.F. schools

    U.S. NavyThe U.S.S. San Francisco rides againJust as cranks who warn us we're playing with our lives for living in the natural disaster Mecca that is California predicted, San Francisco yesterday sank beneath the waves of the Pacific and headed for the bottom of the ocean. But that's okay. San Franc ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Hot! Horny! Wasted! Teens!

    New research about young military recruits who smoke, drink, and screw too much.

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    U.S. Marine Corps an Orgy Palace of Stoned, Drunk, Horny Teens, New UCSF Study Suggests

    By Matt SmithWhile doomsayers bemoan America's ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center may have turned up a brilliant silver lining.Thanks to desperate recruiting methods required to staff those wars, the U.S. Marines may be t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Chevron's Prince of Darkness

    By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2008

    In Deep

    By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Examiner Swims Against Local Tide

    By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April ... More >>

  • Film

    September 24, 2008

    Very Minor Miracle

    No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    This Week in the Wacky World of Food

    No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

  • Film

    July 2, 2008

    Constantine's Sword

    No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/21

    No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

  • Film

    May 14, 2008

    Hearts and Minds

    Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    Worst Mix Tape Ever: The Torture Playlist

    Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Schwarzenegger Planning Hostile Takeover of Something

    Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

  • Home Entertainment

    November 21, 2007

    Call of Duty 4 Kicks Ass Too Close To Home

    Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2007

    Black Night

    Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

  • News

    July 4, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

  • News

    June 20, 2007

    An Army of Uno

    Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

  • Film

    December 20, 2006

    Nostalgia Trip

    Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

  • News

    October 18, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, October 18, 2006

  • News

    October 11, 2006

    Blue Angels, Broken Eardrums

    Another Fleet Week has come and gone in San Francisco. Was it an intrusive distraction or a welcome reminder of our country's military might?

  • Film

    February 1, 2006

    Ride the Legend

    The World's Fastest Indian is powered by Anthony Hopkins

  • Home Entertainment

    December 14, 2005

    Virtual Quagmire

    The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

  • Film

    November 2, 2005

    Killing Time

    In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

  • News

    November 2, 2005

    Pacifists for War

    How the fractured counterrecruitment movement includes those hoping to bring the draft back

  • News

    May 25, 2005

    What the Left Got Wrong About Iraq

    Anti-war activists ignored Saddam Hussein's horrendous crimes against ordinary Iraqis. Do they have anything -- beyond anti-Bush demonstrations -- to offer the oppressed in Iran and Syria?

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, October 13, 2004

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Under the Gun

    Why the Army thinks a 30-year-old college-educated California bull rider will help it recruit soldiers during wartime

  • Calendar

    October 8, 2003

    Hey, Sailor!

    Salty young dogs party on

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Kite Store

    Chinatown Kite Shop

  • Culture

    April 16, 2003

    The Gulf Between

    When these soldiers became writers, the pen became very mighty indeed

  • News

    April 16, 2003

    Remembrance of a War Past

    An unfond look back at Freedom Toast, TV jingoes, and a pro-war bully called Tony Hall

  • News

    March 12, 2003

    Nervous in the Service

    As war looms in Iraq, some U.S. reservists are trying to get out of their military obligations

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from February 14, 2001

  • News

    January 31, 2001

    Asking, Telling

    The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

  • Film

    June 28, 2000

    Saving Private Mad Max

    Mel Gibson stars in The Patriot

  • News

    January 19, 2000

    Tapped Out

    There're not enough buglers and honor guards to keep pace with dying vets

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    South to the Future

    Military to Form PC Corps

  • Film

    November 4, 1998

    Be-Siege'd

    Military to Form PC Corps

  • News

    July 16, 1997

    The Invisible Veterans

    Thousands of Filipinos fought and spied and suffered and died under American command to help us win World War II. The U.S. government says the soldiers who survived -- now elderly, often living in poverty -- aren't worthy of military benefits. Four storie

  • Calendar

    April 16, 1997

    Slap Shots

    Thousands of Filipinos fought and spied and suffered and died under American command to help us win World War II. The U.S. government says the soldiers who survived -- now elderly, often living in poverty -- aren't worthy of military benefits. Four storie

  • News

    October 16, 1996

    When the Bay was Groun Zero

    A look at the Cold War ghosts that haunt the rim of the city

  • Music

    August 9, 1995

    Night Crawler

    A look at the Cold War ghosts that haunt the rim of the city

  • News

    May 3, 1995

    Hey, Sailor!

    The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Paper Trails

    The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

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