Monday Morning Joe: Seahawks win Super Bowl, Army suicides drop, super parachute, free U2 song...

By Northwest Military News Team on February 3, 2014

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On Sunday night at MetLife Stadium, Carroll's old-school football produced an old-school Super Bowl beatdown, something that was common in the 1970s and 1980s. The Seahawks won their first NFL championship by dominating the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII.

At Munich Security Conference, Secretaries Hagel and Kerry, as well as NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Breedlove and others wrestled with how to deal with Syria and other hotspots at a time when the public is growing weary of the war in Afghanistan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Mohammad Zarif said on Monday a final deal with world powers on Tehran's nuclear program is possible within six months.

A trio of hearings in the House this week will give Republicans the chance to publicly question President Obama's statements that al Qaeda "is on the path to defeat."

The number of suicides in the Army dropped last year, compared to 2012.

Army leadership is betting that an 80 percent solution to its aerial scout needs will be good enough in the coming years, as it scraps its OH-58 Kiowa helicopter fleet in favor of a manned-unmanned mixture for peering over the next ridgeline.

The US Air Force plans to defund the combat avionics programmed extension suite (CAPES) program, as budget constraints could force the service to move remaining money from CAPES to the F-16 service-life extension program.

The Army has affirmed the continued existence of its Rapid Equipping Force, thus maintaining the service's ability to quickly address soldier non-standard equipment needs.?

Imagine exiting an aircraft at 35,000 feet above sea level, deploying a parachute, and descending for 50 minutes to a drop zone up to 20 miles away, before finally landing safely.?The new RA-1 parachute will make this a reality for the high-altitude parachutist.

A California start-up is turning out capsule-shaped robots that it says could serve as the eyes and ears of base police units.

Flying back to Washington D.C. from the Munich Security Conference aboard an E-4B aircraft, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a series of surprise phone calls to six officers currently pulling alert duty in three of the 341st Missile Wing's launch control centers.

So now we know what that Seinfeld reunion was all about.

Here's where you can see all the Super Bowl ads.

You only have a few hours left to download U2's new song for free.

See Saturday Night Live's sendoff for Seth Meyers.

When the Tonight Show moves from Burbank to New York City next month as new host Jimmy Fallon takes over, NBCUniversal will lay off all of the show's 164 employees.

It took more than 2,000 pounds of explosives to bring down this 32-story tower in Frankfurt yesterday - roughly the same amount as a Mark 84 bomb.