Public Early Birds
If you follow Defense Department news, you probably know about the Early Bird, a daily compendium of military-related reporting produced by the American Forces Information Service, or AFIS. Now, not just anyone can get access to AFIS’ website; despite the Early Bird being entirely open-source, it’s intended for people in .mil land, and other lucky sods who’ve requested and been granted access.
Fortunately for the rest of us, the Marine Corps has come to the rescue, and some time last year began making copies of the Early Bird available - with USMC-specific annotations - on their website (along with a lot of other public-affairs type stuff, as well.) I admit, I don’t know where it’s linked to, if anywhere, but I eventually managed to find it through Google. Simply point your browser here, and look for PDF files with names like “eYYYYMMDD.pdf” - where YYYY is the year, MM is the month, and DD is the day. For some reason, the Corps’ hasn’t updated the files since the end of the year, so to fill in the gap I’ve, ah, “acquired” copies of this year’s Early Birds from another source. You can read them here:
02 Jan, 03 Jan, 04 Jan, 05 Jan, 06 Jan, 07 Jan.
Enjoy!
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