Dustin Senger

Social media polls

Dustin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:42:55 +0000

Can social media excite activism offline? — Can participatory media excite active enthusiasm for overpowering political, economical and social abuse and injustice? Will online debates and collaboration on social media platforms translate into meaningful rallies of discontent… something more than passive mouse clicks? Quipol

Soldiers await a lift

Dustin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:51:41 +0000

An HH-60M Black Hawk medevac crew responds to a request Jan. 17 from students completing a Warrior Leader Course situational exercise at Fort Carson, Colo. Army Reservists assigned to 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, at Fort Carson became the first Army unit to receive the latest Black Hawk medevac aircraft configuration in early 2010. Soldiers [...]

Reservists finish detainee operations in Afghanistan

Dustin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:10:11 +0000

FORT CARSON, Colo. — A company of Army Reservists stepped inside the Special Events Center at Fort Carson, Colo., Jan. 21, after completing a one-year deployment handling detainee operations in Afghanistan. Capt. James Balutowski, 308th Military Police Company, 244th Engineer Battalion, a Reserve unit headquartered at Fort Carson, reported the return of almost 100 soldiers. They [...]

Carson opens new center to improve training

Dustin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:58:20 +0000

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Fort Carson’s ability to ready soldiers for contingency operations expanded and improved this month with the opening of a new Training Support Center. Each year, more than 75,000 soldiers meet with Fort Carson training coordinators to refine their basic warrior skills, said William January, branch chief of Training Aids, Devices, Simulators [...]

Black Hawk pilots offer WLC a lift

Dustin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:37:07 +0000

FORT CARSON, Colo. — When soldiers attending the Fort Carson Warrior Leader Course rehearsed medevac requests Jan. 17, the Army’s latest in medical support aircraft responded. A battlefield situational exercise concludes the multi-component WLC at Fort Carson, which is organized by the 168th Regiment, Regional Training Institute. New coordination efforts between the training regiment and [...]

TAPS honors soldiers for mentoring

Dustin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:54:21 +0000

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Fifty soldiers were honored in the Fallen Heroes Family Center Jan. 13 for taking an extra, extraordinary step as soldiers. The soldiers volunteered in October to mentor children during the 3rd Annual National Military Suicide Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp, offered by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors at Cheyenne [...]

Engineers return from Iraq, cut forces in Afghanistan

Dustin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:03:53 +0000

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Almost 200 soldiers from 4th Engineer Battalion redeployed in December, ending two one-year combat commitments in just four months. Capt. Mike Custer, commander, 62nd Sapper Company, reported the return of the Army’s final combat unit in Iraq Dec. 22, during a ceremony surrounded by holiday decorations and cheer. Capt. John Kubeika, [...]

Carson breaks ground for shared shooting complex

Dustin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:52:51 +0000

FORT CARSON, Colo. – El Paso County, 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson leadership broke ground Dec. 15 to begin building a massive outdoor shooting complex. Fort Carson has allocated about 400 acres of range space for the construction of the Cheyenne Mountain Shooting Complex. Almost 100 firing points will open this summer, adjacent to [...]

Social media: Globalized material culture

Dustin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:34 +0000

A growing number of people around the world are participating in online social media platforms, where floods of information are eroding barriers once imposed by national borders, religious convictions and governmental pressures. Nearly 4 out of 5 active Internet users visit online social networks and blogs, according to Nielsen (2011a). In business transactions, purchase decisions [...]

Humans evolving for violence: Genetics and culture

Dustin — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:14:34 +0000

Around the world, humans are exhibiting a great capacity for compassion and social progress, as well as an equally grand tendency for cruelty. With advancements in material culture, our struggles for survival have become exceedingly more complex and unified and violent. According to the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development (Geneva Declaration Secretariat 2011), [...]