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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

Creative Greenius

While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people. Here he is singing it solo acoustic in 2008.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? Fuel becomes very expensive by the time it reaches the front line, ranging from $20/gallon up to $600/gallon when it is delivered by helicopter in Afghanistan. The cells make up the remainder.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. He left the company in 2008 to become lead engineer and scientist at the Lockheed Martin research facility in Cherry Hill, N.J. Both MEMS tools, which are used to measure the angular motion of a body, can be found in cellphones.

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