TERMINATOR NOW: The Rise Of The Machines - The U.S. Military Is Building An Iron Man Suit!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class=""><span style="color: yellow;"><b><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 06, 2013 - UNITED STATES </span></b></b></span>- While some may view the Mark series of suits in the <i>Iron Man</i> comics and movies as science fiction, the Pentagon sees a real-world goal.<br /><br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2OfUYqr3ZBQ/Uno2jg6HMEI/AAAAAAABNJ0/6tEPD2j2wl0/s1600/ironman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2OfUYqr3ZBQ/Uno2jg6HMEI/AAAAAAABNJ0/6tEPD2j2wl0/s1600/ironman.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Iron Man 3, </i>Photograph by Walt Disney Pictures via Everett Collection</td></tr></tbody></table><br />A program to incorporate several technologies in a futuristic suit for U.S. special operations forces has started soliciting technical <a href="https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=ea9a21b1d93cdcb4688efce825ca63b3">designs</a> to help deploy the first one as soon as next year. The aim of the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (Talos) is to give special ops fighters greater protection inside armor that can withstand bullets, all while downloading live video data from drones and other sources. The suit would have a powered exoskeleton that could help a soldier move quickly while carrying heavy weight. “It also would carry a built-in oxygen supply in case of poison gas, a cooling system to keep soldiers comfortable, and sensors to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ironman-military-20131030,0,2263878.story#axzz2jEerKPDU">transmit the wearer’s vital signs</a> back to headquarters,” according to a report in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>.<br /><br />The suit won’t imitate the movies in one critical way, at least for many, many years: There will be no zooming around the globe at jet speeds. Flight is a fanciful, Herculean technical hurdle, and isn’t core to the suit’s primary goals. A more practical challenge shared with the fictional Tony Stark is perfecting the proper battery to power such a suit, given the perennial conflict between size and weight and the need to keep the suit flexible and not burdensome.<br /><br />The project is being overseen by the U.S. Special Operations Command, based at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. Unlike a traditional defense contracting program, the Special Operations Command is gathering technologies required for the project and will itself integrate them into a final suit prototype. A second demonstration of various components for the suit is scheduled for Nov. 20, roughly four months after the initial session in Tampa. About 60 products have been submitted so far, although no funds have been allotted to any company, said Lieutenant Commander Li Cohen. The first fighters assigned to the suits will likely be on “kinetic missions,” she said, where there’s a high probability of combat and weapons fire.<br /><br />The program is on track to have a “first-generation capability” by summer 2014, according to a video produced by the command. “I am very committed to this because I’d like that last operator that we lost to be the last one that we ever lose, in this fight or in the fight of the future,” Admiral William McRaven, who leads the Special Operations Command, says in the video.<br /><br />The program has attracted interest from dozens of mostly smaller firms, although <span class="ticker_wrap"><span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Corporation"><span itemprop="name">Raytheon</span></span> (<a class="ticker" data-symbol="RTN" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=RTN">RTN</a>)</span> is one of the larger Pentagon contractors that’s expressed interest in Talos and similar efforts. The company declined to comment because the work is competitive. One technology that Raytheon has been working on for several years is an exoskeleton system that would allow a soldier to move heavy weights.<br /><br />Clark Gregg, the agent who plays Agent Phil Coulson in the <i>Iron Man</i> and <i>Avengers</i> movies and on the <span class="ticker_wrap"><span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Corporation"><span itemprop="name">ABC</span></span> (<a class="ticker" data-symbol="DIS" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=DIS">DIS</a>)</span> television show <i>S.H.I.E.L.D.</i>, visited Raytheon’s research facility in Utah in 2010 to observe and test the exoskeleton. Raytheon posted a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVIE33tMyQM">video</a> on its YouTube channel. Consider it a teaser trailer of sorts.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>WATCH:</b></span>  'Iron Man' Actor Clark Gregg Spends a Day With the Raytheon Sarcos XOS 2 Exoskeleton.  <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="321" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/tVIE33tMyQM?showinfo=0&version=3" width="570"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-04/u-dot-s-dot-special-ops-seeks-designs-for-iron-man-type-suit-flight-not-necessary"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Business Week</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

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10:06 a.m. ... 9/11/2001 ... United Flight 93 goes down

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLZty5h2SCNgrw0U6UUuEDE-zCClpTxQ0KZOzd9sx4P5W_GibniWtEB8tlvLUmofrgwd6KiKZ3HMZDLSU_i0ZAEHdYslsnp4EnmQbRhhyD1vEhg4zp5WCbKjH20dSYRrkBOuheINdAZxD/s1600/9-11+Flight+93.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515430150369614098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLZty5h2SCNgrw0U6UUuEDE-zCClpTxQ0KZOzd9sx4P5W_GibniWtEB8tlvLUmofrgwd6KiKZ3HMZDLSU_i0ZAEHdYslsnp4EnmQbRhhyD1vEhg4zp5WCbKjH20dSYRrkBOuheINdAZxD/s400/9-11+Flight+93.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="340" /></a>The heroes of United Flight 93 were ordinary Americans who reacted in extraordinary times. On a hijacked airplane heading toward Washington, D.C., possibly targeting the White House or the Capitol building, and with the knowledge of what had already occurred that morning with the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, passengers took matters into their own hands.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nps.gov/flni/historyculture/index.htm">Ordinary citizens became heroes</a> in their attempt to overtake the Muslum terrorists who had pirated the plane, and crashed it into the countryside of southwestern Pennsylvania. <br /><br />I have written before of my special connection to Flight 93. My sister, a member of the George W. Bush administration, was at work in the White House that day. If Flight 93 had hit Washington as had happened in New York City and Arlington's Pentagon, our family could have been one of the many mourning a lost one.<br /><br />On the tenth anniversary of that tragic day, the crash site outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, <a href="http://www.nps.gov/flni/planyourvisit/september-11-2011-weekend.htm">was formally dedicated</a> as a permanent reminder of the courage and spirit of the Flight 93 heroes. President George W. Bush, in office only nine months when 9/11 happened, unexpectedly became a wartime president that day with a determination to protect the American people. He and Mrs. Bush attended the 2011 commemorative events, met with the families, and took part in the ceremony.<br /><br /><a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/remembering-passengers-and-crew-of.html">Forty extraordinary Americans</a> ... my family will forever be grateful to the men and women of Flight 93 and their families for the heroism and sacrifice made that day.<br /><br />Flight 93 had <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/national/911/index.html">heroes</a> on board....<br /><br /><b>Todd Beamer - "Let's roll!"</b><br />The 32-year-old Oracle Corp. account manager from Cranbury, N.J., was believed to have helped lead a passenger attack on Flight 93 hijackers that prevented the jet from reaching its target, possibly the White House. Beamer spoke to a GTE operator on the plane's phone. His final words -- "Are you guys ready? Let's roll!" -- have become a rallying cry for the war against terrorism. Beamer and his wife, Lisa, had two sons. His daughter, Morgan, was born in January of 2002. Beamer played baseball and basketball in college and loved coaching youth sports. President Bush, in an address to the nation, praised Beamer as "an exceptional man." Today, the Todd M. Beamer Foundation aims to help kids deal with trauma and learn how to make choices.<br /><br /><b>Thomas E. Burnett Jr. </b><br />Burnett called his wife, Deena, to tell her about the Flight 93 hijacking and said he and other passengers were "going to do something about it." Burnett, 38, of San Ramon, Calif., was senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company. His wife and three daughters moved to Arkansas afterwards to be closer to her parents. The new Thomas Burnett Family Foundation plans to provide endowments for children's bereavement camps and leadership scholarships at selected universities.<br /><br /><b>Jeremy Glick </b><br />Glick called his wife, Lyz, after terrorists took over Flight 93. She patched the call to a 911 dispatcher, who told Glick about earlier attacks in New York. Glick told his wife some passengers had taken a vote, and "We're going to rush the hijackers." Glick, 31, of West Milford, N.J., had been a collegiate judo champion at the University of Rochester. His older sister, Jennifer, is president of <i>Jeremy's Heroes</i> foundation which is devoted to helping people build character through sports. The foundation has supplied sneakers to kids in Chicago and paid for 20 children in Washington to attend a soccer camp.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108802743633680370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8F1a0YurHXSG684M-t-8aWqoodzZBeihiFlmp_KhWTy3NuK_K62Dn_27cxI7Bk1aiaDxVAnPcTLCakkXa3tKbBExWcWZBPhnMlI_uRRQMijac9WDCBFOGWio_WA0DV7F1ZifC8OylCM/s400/9-11+candle.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>We will never forget. </b></div>

9/11/2001 George W. Bush Jeremy Glick Let's roll Pennsylvania Pentagon Shanksville Terrorism Thomas Burnett Todd Beamer Twin Towers United Flight 93 10:06 a.m. ... 9/11/2001 ... United Flight 93 goes down

The heroes of United Flight 93 were ordinary Americans who reacted in extraordinary times. On a hijacked airplane heading toward Washington,...

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9:45 a.m. ... 9/11/2001 ... White House evacuated

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMMOmhkvRnupGJIvFtURwbh7w7ph09MbUO-Z8OZxsQDDevpUKvvy7cai-bJldj5NaUsqo4DMXJi81LTkgvdpXtjs5HqoYcfLHcxzMIZ0VFMKGe7LRJAFOb28D8lEjHlibHGfceMqDiU8J/s1600/White+House+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMMOmhkvRnupGJIvFtURwbh7w7ph09MbUO-Z8OZxsQDDevpUKvvy7cai-bJldj5NaUsqo4DMXJi81LTkgvdpXtjs5HqoYcfLHcxzMIZ0VFMKGe7LRJAFOb28D8lEjHlibHGfceMqDiU8J/s400/White+House+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The Twin Towers had been attacked by airplanes an hour earlier ... Pan Am Flight 77 had flown into the Pentagon ... and now <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2008/09/heroes-of-flight-93-lets-roll.html">United Flight 93</a> was being followed on radar flying toward Washington, D.C. No one was aware of the struggle going on inside that aircraft as passengers, aware of terrorism attacks earlier that morning, vowed to storm the cockpit and avoid whatever disaster the terrorist pilots had in mind.<br /><br />The White House was evacuated at 9:45. Employees were urgently directed by Secret Service to leave the building and, as the evacuation was under way, it was stepped up as shouts told them to get away from the White House and Old Executive Office Building as fast as they could. Women took off their shoes and ran in their stocking feet out the White House grounds and onto the street and down the sidewalk. One of them was my sister.<br /><br />Flight 93 would go down at 10:06 a.m. taking the brave souls with it who prevented further national tragedy. May we <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2008/09/heroes-of-flight-93-lets-roll.html">never forget the herorism</a> of those on Flight 93.<br /><br />9/11/2001 ... may we never forget.

9/11/2001 Pan Am Flight 77 Pentagon Terrorism United Flight 93 Washington White House evacuation 9:45 a.m. ... 9/11/2001 ... White House evacuated

The Twin Towers had been attacked by airplanes an hour earlier ... Pan Am Flight 77 had flown into the Pentagon ... and now United Flight 93...

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9:37 a.m. ... 9/11/2001 ... Pentagon attacked

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3uQh3gsxq3PDeSYlGwNsSsFpsSLRR3WjeJ5LSNlVsZ283cW0q9_FJcUh5HQyRIoa07by2IWvYcY-dUI8P8B7bvD9jg5rh88kixgKkzQAHr0GnjGEShWo0MyYY9eIpChZW-iZeWKPvZbI/s1600/Pentagon+on+9-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3uQh3gsxq3PDeSYlGwNsSsFpsSLRR3WjeJ5LSNlVsZ283cW0q9_FJcUh5HQyRIoa07by2IWvYcY-dUI8P8B7bvD9jg5rh88kixgKkzQAHr0GnjGEShWo0MyYY9eIpChZW-iZeWKPvZbI/s400/Pentagon+on+9-11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />9:37 a.m. The Pentagon located in Arlington, Virginia ... the military nerve center of the United States ... was struck by terrorism as the terrorist attacks on America continued....<br /><br />9/11 ... may we never forget.

9/11/2001 Arlington Pentagon Terrorism 9:37 a.m. ... 9/11/2001 ... Pentagon attacked

9:37 a.m. The Pentagon located in Arlington, Virginia ... the military nerve center of the United States ... was struck by terrorism as the ...

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