Navy Seals open Great Lakes prep school

The Ottawa Citizen reports that the US Navy Seals are opening a "preparatory school" on the Great Lakes. The school is to help prepare candidates for the grueling BUD/S selection course.

As the U.S. Navy SEALs pushes to expand from 1,800 enlisted personnel to 2,500 over the next four years it’s laying the groundwork so those recruiting targets can be met.

French Special Forces in Kandahar

The Toronto Star has an article about French Special Forces who have been operating in Kandahar.

They had big black beards, big warm smiles. They had a dozen young Afghan army trainees in tow, each with a grin to match. They didn't even have flak jackets, let alone a speck of armour on the two brown pickup trucks that kept their show on the road.

They were French special forces, in an especially dodgy part of Afghanistan, where the French supposedly don't go. And they'd been there a while.

US Navy Robotics

Wired has a photo gallery of armed robots at the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare System Command in San Diego.

Canada's Military Prison

The Winnipeg Sun has an article about Canada's military prison. The prison, which is in Edmonton and has an extremely strict code of discipline, only admitted 39 new prisoners last year.