AI CREATED PHOTO Stockpile pressures are not a new challenge to military operations. Before the aerial campaign even started, General Caine warned the president that the U.S. did not have the stockpiles of high-tech weaponry necessary to sustain a prolonged conflict. Simple, low-tech, conventional bombs is one thing, but very expensive and time consuming to manufacture and deploy missiles and missile batteries, is another thing. Therefore, the pace and sheer volume of special

I had a rough day today that is typical for truck owner-operators anywhere. The day started at 0330 hours as I drove to a gas station next to the Florida Turnpike, to fill up for a day of heavy hauling material to two different sites approximately 100 miles away each. I would drive to one local quarry to pick up 22 tons of Lime Rock and drive it to the first destination 100 miles away, then come back 100 miles to a different quarry and pick up 22 tons of Rock #57 (.57 inch si

Ai Created photo Just days after the catastrophic event in the Nepalese-Tibetan border, over 3000 people are still missing, including hundreds of foreign tourists, who had been traveling near the Nepal-Tibet border. Those numbers are almost certainly going to rise as rescue teams reach areas that are still cut off. The first explanations offered by officials were the obvious ones. Some pointed to a glacier lake bursting, others suggested an earthquake had triggered a landslid