• Air America. The Air America Association is composed of former employees of CAT, Air America, their families and their affiliates. This is their web site. Its purpose is to capture that experience and present it in historical context: http://www.air-america.org/

• Black Hawck Down. Experience the dramatic raid of Mogadishu with philly.com's Black Hawk Down site, featuring full text of the Philadelphia Inquirer series plus exclusive photos, video, audio, and more. Produced by the Philadelphia Inquirer and philly.com: http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/

• Come Back Alive. The official website of Robert Youg Pelton, a place where professionals, adventurers, travelers, and those who work and travel in high-risk areas can keep abreast of the latest information and safety tips: http://www.comebackalive.com/

• Field Support Modules. This a monitored DOD resource. Use the Country or Language DropDowns located on the top right of the screen to access the materials specific to that country or language. Within each country page, you will find Area Studies and Language Familiarization links: http://fieldsupport.lingnet.org/

• GlobalSecurity.org. GlobalSecurity.org is focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium [heads up with the pup-ups]: http://www.globalsecurity.org/

- Mercenary / Private Military Companies (PMCs): http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/mercenary.htm

• Haze Gray & Underway. Hazegray is one of the web's finest sites dedicated to ships and navies. We offer a wide array of resources related to naval history, current naval affairs, shipbuilding, maritime history, naval and maritime photography and news. Haze Gray and Underway was founded in 1994 by Andrew Toppan. Through various changes and relocations over the years, this site has remained dedicated to providing the finest naval history information: http://www.hazegray.org/

• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. The goal of this website is to document coalition casualties for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). We attempt to be up to date, precise, accurate and reliable: http://icasualties.org/

• Intelligence Online. It is the first system of political and economic intelligence. It deciphers all influence-bringing activities around the world those that originate from lobbying groups, intelligence services, or economic intelligence unites. It evaluates emerging risks terrorism, proliferation, organised crime, money laundering, political instability - around the globe: http://www.intelligenceonline.com/

:• Island defenders. An audio slideshow focusing on the Falkland Islands Defence Force (FIDF), a volunteer civilian army mobilised on the night of the Argentine invasion in 1982. FIDF still trains weekly and maintains "Company strength". In peacetime it assists with search and rescue operations, and armed fisheries protection: click here

• kim-spy. Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. An Intelligence and Security Webring: http://www.kimsoft.com/kim-spy.htm

• Maritime Industry Knowledge Centre. The aim of our Maritime Industry Knowledge Centre is ‘to enrich human knowledge and understanding of the vital roles of maritime industries and commercial shipping in the economic, social, political and cultural life of the global environment.’: http://www.maritimeinfo.org/

• Military.com.  It offers free resources to serve, connect, and inform the 30 million Americans with military affinity: active duty personnel, retirees, veterans, reservists, guard members, defense workers, family members, and those considering military careers: http://www.military.com/

• Military Salute Project. A tribute to those who served honorably in the United States Armed Forces or in support of our Military anywhere in the world from 1960 to 1975: http://condocat.home.att.net/

• PMCs Monitor. Introduces a new concept for monitoring and regulating Private Military Company activity, their contracts and the compliance of their employees to international standards. For such purposes, we are currently working to implement this concept at an international Level through the 'Stars System' concept: http://pmcs-monitor.com/

• Najaf Project. It intends to reconstruct, as more accurate as possible, the actions which took place in April 4 in Najaf. Emphasizing in the corrections of tactics and procedures, and the way to correct them for further situations [English and Spanish]: http://najafproject.iespana.es/

• PrivateForces.com. This site has been created to offer any person interested in the field of Private Military Companies a reference and starting point for further studies on the subject: http://www.privateforces.com/

• Regiments.org. The oldest and largest website devoted .to the "Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth", a major resource designed to make some sense of military history and help you navigate the web. The information presented on this website is freely offered as an aid to researchers: http://www.regiments.org

• Rhodesia and South Africa: Military History. A site maintained by Richard Allport: http://www.rhodesia.de.vu/

• Supporting Britain's Reservists and Employers. Set up in October 2002, SaBRE is a Ministry of Defence (MOD) marketing and communications campaign created with the belief that if an employer understands the role of Reservists and is aware of the skills they develop, their support for the Reserve Forces will be greater: http://www.sabre.mod.uk/

• Sea-Sentinel. The service provides you with details of over 8,200 ports, terminals and facilities together with the latest risk pointers and security relates news. The service provides you with global, up-to-date coverage of events which may affect the security of your vessels wherever they may be trading: http://www.sea-sentinel.com/

• SecurityPark.net. A leading online News portal for the Security industry, with over 295,000 readers every month. We publish industry and product News on a daily basis, across the complete range of Security products and services. We also publish Security case studies, white papers and market reports: http://www.securitypark.co.uk/

• Strategic Security. Loyola College in Maryland Homepage on Strategic Security: http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/intel.html

• StrategyPage. The Strategy Page is a comprehensive summary of military news and affairs, including battlefield reports, arms sales, weapon tests, space programs, espionage, terrorism, etc. We cover the inside data on how and why things happen: http://www.strategypage.com

• Terrorist Group Profiles. Website containing profiles of current and prior terrorist group's profiles maintained by the US Naval Postgraduate School: click here

• TurboTAP. The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) has been redesigned into a comprehensive, mandatory program through the efforts of an interagency team from the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Labor (DOL), Department of Education (ED), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). The redesigned TAP, known as Transition Goals Plans Success (GPS) or Transition GPS, changes the current program from a discontinuous set of activities into a cohesive, modular, outcome based program that provides opportunities and aids in successful transition into a "career ready" civilian: [Inactive original link preserved for research purposes: http://www.turbotap.org/]

>> In August 2014, TurboTAP was integrated (enhanced / downgraded?) into the DMDC website. Via various click jumps you are now redirected to USAJOBS.gov, which we more properly list on our recruitment pages: GO>>