Oldest NATO soldier in combat

The Edmonton Journal has a story about Cpl. Eric Hjalmarson. He joined the Canadian Forces at the age of 49 and is now, at 58, serving as an armoured vehicle gunner in Afghanistan.

Army.ca also has a post about him, this one with a picture.

US Army to allow editing of Field Manuals

The New York Times has an article abut a new US Army program to allow the rank and file to use a wiki to edit the Army's official Field Manuals.

“For a couple hundred years, the Army has been writing doctrine in a particular way, and for a couple months, we have been doing it online in this wiki,” said Col. Charles J. Burnett, the director of the Army’s Battle Command Knowledge System. “The only ones who could write doctrine were the select few. Now, imagine the challenge in accepting that anybody can go on the wiki and make a change — that is a big challenge, culturally.”