US Navy – With the aviation mechanics aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

• Virginian Pilot: Roosevelt’s mechanics keep warplanes flying

Royal Marines – 40 Commando continues to prepare for action, but how will they be used?

• Daily Telegraph: Marines not yet ready to attack, says
• The Times: Marines to join ranks of ‘Fearless’
• Daily Telegraph:
  ‘My men know what’s needed to eradicate the terrorist cancer’

US Coast Guard – A new icebreaker will be built for use on the Great Lakes, to replace the USCGC Mackinaw which dates from WWII.

• MSNBC: New Great Lakes icebreaker to replace WWII-era ship

Background – Biological Weapons – Smallpox – An excellent history of smallpox as a disease, and how it can be turned into a lethal weapon.

• New Yorker: The Demon in the Freezer