Some soldiers thought the closure was an odd attempt at preventing infections by consolidating facilities, but it actually was a secondary effect of the Kuwaiti government’s own internal efforts, according to U.S. Army Central officials.
The memorial has a planned cost of about $40 million, and current law requires that 100 percent of funding be raised prior to initial groundbreaking, according to the National Desert Storm Memorial Association.
“Unfortunately, those apps are more secure than texting in the clear, which is more or less the alternative. Granted, if a hostile party has access to the handset, that encryption isn’t particularly helpful.”