Citrus County Veterans Coalition Inc.

09/29/2024

https://veteran.com/vfw-day/

VFW Day is observed on Sept. 29th. The Veterans Of Foreign Wars is a non-profit veterans service organization.

09/29/2024

https://veteran.com/gold-star-mothers-day/

Gold Star Mother's Day is intended to recognize and honor those mothers who have lost a son or daughter in the service of the U.S. Armed Forces.

09/27/2024

This Week's Answers:
Wednesday Trivia:
Fort Benning is a United States Army post located in which state? Georgia

09/27/2024

Friday Funny:

09/26/2024

Thursday Silly Story Time:
The curse of the eviltron
(from taskandpurpose.com)
It’s not just enlisted troops who get into hijinks in the military. One Air Force officer who wanted to stay anonymous told Task & Purpose a story involving a small device called an eviltron or an annoyatron. It’s about the size of a quarter, and its sole purpose is to annoy the hell out of your chosen target. All the machine does is replay a sound of your choice every four minutes or so. The thing is, the battery lasts several months, so if you drop the eviltron in some hard-to-reach place like behind a desk or in some out-of-the-way drawer, then your target is stuck with it.
Our Air Force officer made good use of an eviltron while he was a squadron executive officer, or the unit’s second-in-command. He found an eviltron saying “hey can you hear me” and he dropped it behind the commander’s desk before departing on a temporary travel assignment. He left chaos in his wake.
“Two days into it the first sergeant texts me to say "the boss is tearing apart his office because his computer is talking to him,” our reader said. “By day three it’s even better because now the commander is ignoring it but everyone who comes into his office is confused when they hear ‘hey, can you hear me,’ and then the commander denies that he heard anything.”
“Nobody had a mental breakdown,” the officer went on, “but it was apparently epic that people are hearing this voice in the commander’s office and he denies it.”
The commander never found the eviltron, but our officer fished it out of the hiding spot when he got back. Unfortunately for his colleagues, it wasn’t the last time he used the infernal machine.
“I have had dozens of eviltrons over the years and they end up in all sorts of places,” he said. “We had a guy chasing a cricket in his office for two months with it.

Task & Purpose provides military news, culture, and analysis by and for the military and veterans community.

09/25/2024

Wednesday Trivia
Fort Benning is a United States Army post located in which state?

09/24/2024

Tuesday Museum Link
World War II Museums in Florida
In Fort Pierce, the UDT-SEAL Museum is on the site where World War II Navy frogmen trained. It shows off many of the period’s artifacts. https://www.navysealmuseum.org/fort-pierce

09/24/2024

Attn.: Local Veterans with service dogs, Dunnellon Moose Lodge 2308 is offering dog food and some Veterinarian care for Vets with service dogs. Call 352-489-0276 for details.
Moose Lodge 2308
11890 N Florida Ave, Dunnellon, FL 34434

09/23/2024

Weird Monday:
NSA UTAH DATA CENTER IS A MYSTERIOUS ESPIONAGE BASE
As far as mysterious military installations go, it makes sense that any place dealing with high-tech intelligence and surveillance would be pretty locked down. Certainly, after high profile leaks from former contractors and military employees like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, you can be pretty certain that security measures around these places are at a high level. And that's precisely why some intelligence facilities are so mysterious and compelling to those of us on the outside.
NSA UTAH DATA CENTER IS A MYSTERIOUS ESPIONAGE BASE
As far as mysterious military installations go, it makes sense that any place dealing with high-tech intelligence and surveillance would be pretty locked down. Certainly, after high profile leaks from former contractors and military employees like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, you can be pretty certain that security measures around these places are at a high level. And that's precisely why some intelligence facilities are so mysterious and compelling to those of us on the outside.

Take the Utah Data Center operated by the National Security Administration. Many have wondered why it would be located in Utah, The Atlantic reports, though the state certainly has plenty of remote areas and a distinct lack of natural disasters. Local communities have also given the NSA a pretty sweet deal on water rights and other infrastructure needs. And what are they doing at the NSA Data Center? All anyone seems to feel confident about is that the data center likely stores massive amounts of data collected via any number of undisclosed methods. Quite a lot of that data, many assume, is harvested directly from American citizens and their communications, as NPR reports. While administrators have plainly stated that they don't hold such data and instead focus on foreign targets, the lack of detail has kept many still thoroughly skeptical.

09/20/2024

This Week's Answers:
Wednesday Trivia:
What is the term for the deliberate use of offensive operations to seize and hold onto areas that are beyond the reach of friendly forces? Military occupation

09/20/2024

Friday Funny

09/20/2024

https://veteran.com/pow-mia-recognition-day/

The third Friday in September is POW/MIA Day, a time to remember the sacrifices of prisoners of war and servicemembers who are missing in action.