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Spaceflight Now
December 19, 2018
A communications satellite destined to serve the Indian military is set to blast off from the country's east coast Wednesday aboard aÃâà...
Washington Examiner
December 19, 2018
President Trump on Tuesday signed off on the military's first space combatant command, putting it on par with others such as U.S. CyberÃâà...
CNET
December 19, 2018
Facebook said Thursday it identified and removed hundreds of pages and accounts linked to Myanmar military efforts to spread fake news andÃâà...
Washington Examiner
December 19, 2018
Some of the recommendations in the blueprint are politically challenging—such as reforming the military healthcare system or approvingÃâà...
Department of Defense
December 19, 2018
U.S. Space Command will be the U.S. military's 11th unified combatant command, Vice President Mike Pence announced at the KennedyÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
December 19, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. military was hit recently by a computer network outage in South Korea, but the problem has largely beenÃâà...
Military Times
December 18, 2018
WASHINGTON — Analysts from the Congressional Budget Office say the government could trim hundreds of billions from the federal deficit byÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
April 28, 2018
As the Earth gets warmer, the polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise. The more sea levels rise, the more people in low-lying coastal areas are threatened. A new study funded by the U.S. military finds that more than a thousand low-lying islands and atolls across the world will be rendered uninhabitable byÃâà...
KRDO
April 28, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. - 71 percent of young adults in America don't qualify for military service for various reasons. The most common reason, disqualifying 31 percent, is obesity. Joining the army was something Logan Dicus had always considered. "It had always been something in the back of myÃâà...
My Twin Tiers.com
April 28, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Our nation's military faces an unusual fight. Defense leaders say boosting troop numbers has been a challenge partly because many recruits are not physically fit for service. Now a group of retired military leaders are urging president trump to take action. Military leaders are strugglingÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 28, 2018
With naval power Britain at the EU's exit door, Spain has gone on the offensive to be the next major player defending European shores. Madrid's manoeuvring comes as the EU looks to deepen military cooperation to show unity in the wake of Brexit. The bloc's 27 remaining member states have alreadyÃâà...
Department of Defense
April 28, 2018
On April 24, coalition military forces conducted five strikes consisting of six engagements against ISIS targets. Near Abu Kamal, four strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit, destroying three ISIS fighting positions and an ISIS vehicle and damaging a fighting position. Near Shadaddi, a strike engaged an ISISÃâà...
BBC News
April 28, 2018
A long-awaited report into a top-secret Cold War unit of the Swiss army has finally been published, 27 years after it was written. The Cornu report reveals that neutral Switzerland had surprisingly close co-operation with the UK - a Nato member. But some readers are disappointed; the full details were heavily redacted by theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 28, 2018
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German defense ministry is unhappy with what it views as an unsatisfactory military budget, and will have to postpone at least one ... more funding would still be needed to plug continuing shortages in German military equipment after 25 years of declining spending, the sources said.
Department of Defense
April 28, 2018
April is designated as the Month of the Military Child and is a time to honor the sacrifices of the more than 1.7 million children of military members serving in the U.S. and overseas. “Military children go through different challenges than civilian children,” said retired Air Force Master Sgt. Jose Cerna, a parentÃâà...
The Hill
April 28, 2018
For more than a year, the Army issued waivers to more than 1,000 recruits who had been diagnosed and treated for mood disorders and nearly 100 who self-mutilated, USA Today reported this week. From Oct. 1, 2016, through Oct. 31, 2017, the service accepted new soldiers with a history of behavioralÃâà...
AirForceTimes.com
April 27, 2018
Devin Patrick Kelley, the gunman in a mass shooting at a Texas church last year told a military judge in 2012 that he "would never allow myself to hurt someone" again while confessing to violently hitting his stepson. The Pentagon on Thursday, April 26, 2018, released hundreds of court documents about the former AirÃâà...
ABC News
April 27, 2018
Anyone who's served in the military, worked for the federal government or addressed a package at the post office is familiar with the handiwork. But they might not have realized that all the ubiquitous SKILCRAFT U.S. Government pens were made by the visually impaired. The pens turn 50 this month.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 27, 2018
A “moral economy” means spending more on things like health care and education and less on the military, according to Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanders, a Vermont independent and Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, shared a stage with the Rev. William Barber II at Duke University in Durham onÃâà...
The Drive
April 27, 2018
The company is pitching the design, called the Yagu, primarily for border patrol and other law enforcement duties in remote areas, but it could also offer a better protected, lightweight vehicle for certain conventional military and special operations forces. Earlier in April 2018, Plasan unveiled the Yagu at theÃâà...
Military Times
April 27, 2018
“While casualties on the battlefield are understood to be consistent with our military duties, I accept no casualties due to sexual assault within our ranks,” Mattis said in his memo, invoking the Latin phrase meaning “in the place of a parent. “Military leaders are to be zealous in carrying out 'in loco parentis'Ãâà...
Department of Defense
April 27, 2018
The current budget situation will allow the military to restore its competitive advantage over any possible adversary, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Senate Armed Services Committee today. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford stressed that the U.S. military has a competitive advantage over anyÃâà...
Department of Defense
April 27, 2018
Mattis appeared before the committee with Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and David L. Norquist, the Defense Department's comptroller and chief financial officer. Military Successes. Mattis highlighted progress, including in Afghanistan and with the global effort toÃâà...
Air Force Link
April 27, 2018
Melissa Cerna, center right, military child and Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps member, speaks with Joint Base Andrews first sergeants at Dr. Henry A. Wise High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., Dec. 5, 2017. The first sergeants learned about the various programs the school offers students,Ãâà...
Seattle Times
April 24, 2018
TORONTO (AP) — Details have begun to emerge about Alek Minassian, who was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 of attempted murder for driving a van into a crowded sidewalk in Toronto. Here is a look at the 25-year-old suspect in one of the worst mass killings in Canada'sÃâà...
Noozhawk
April 24, 2018
Approximately 140 positions now located at Vandenberg Air Force Base will move to Colorado under a military restructuring plan. The affected positions, with more than 100 being military and Department of Defense civilians while the rest are contractor jobs, will relocate Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado,Ãâà...
wtvr.com
April 24, 2018
NORFOLK, Va. – Virginia's two senators have raised concerns about how offshore drilling could impact military activity in Hampton Roads. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both Democrats, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis to share concerns about the risk of offshore drilling on localÃâà...
GazetteNET
April 24, 2018
BELCHERTOWN — After her son joined the Air Force, Betty O'Brien imagined a military career for him filled with adventure and reliable job benefits. Now, after he was stricken at 23 with a deadly illness, she drives him to doctor's appointments, balances both their finances and prepares meals for them as aÃâà...
Honolulu Civil Beat
April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — The military might be Hawaii's second largest economy, but for years state officials have lacked a full understanding of just how far the money flows. That all changed last year when the state labor department launched a new website, HawaiiDefenseEconomy.org, that provided contractorÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 24, 2018
Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Tom McCaffery on March 28 asked the Defense Health Board to examine the military's policies on complex procedures after being made aware of the U.S. News investigation, noting that "national studies that suggest a relationship between performing certainÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — Ever since President Donald Trump visited French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris last year, he has wanted to throw a Bastille Day-style military parade in Washington. That did not happen Tuesday, but Trump welcomed the French leader to the White House with a stroll pastÃâà...
MLive.com
April 24, 2018
Air Force Airman Allahna M. Walls, a 2017 Kelloggsville High graduate, recently completed basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. Navy Petty Officer Garrett R. Latchaw, a 2015 Jenison High graduate, recently completed Nuclear Power School as a nuclearÃâà...
Task & Purpose
April 24, 2018
Many of the Department of the Army civilians I had worked with and a large number of my veteran friends signed out of the military on terminal leave on a Friday and started a new job on Monday. But that wasn't me after I left the Army. The career path I wanted to explore — professional writing — didn't haveÃâà...
The Hill
April 24, 2018
The Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday approved two four-star nominees to take over command of U.S. military operations in the Asia-Pacific and North America. As part of a batch of 256 military nominations, the committee advanced by voice vote Adm. Philip Davidson to be commander of U.S.Ãâà...
ArmyTimes.com
April 24, 2018
Six-year-old Henry will move to his seventh home this summer, slightly more than the average military child who will move six to nine times through high school, says the Pentagon. That's six to nine times start over making friends, getting to know teachers, learning about their neighborhoods like those closeÃâà...
PolitiFact
April 24, 2018
A "moral economy" means spending more on things like health care and education and less on the military, according to Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanders, a Vermont independent and Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, shared a stage with the Rev. William Barber II at Duke University in Durham onÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
April 22, 2018
Springfield, VA, April 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A., Inc. (MOPH) regrets to announce that, effective June 30, 2018, it will no longer be able to provide assistance with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Veterans and their families through theÃâà...
Slate Magazine
April 22, 2018
There was lots of anticipation in the small Georgia town of Newnan for what had been billed as the biggest gathering of neo-Nazis since Charlottesville last year that ended with one person dead. In the end, it was much ado about nothing as mere dozens of people showed up to celebrate Adolf Hitler'sÃâà...
Boston.com
April 22, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The family of a Massachusetts Marine killed in an attack on a military facility in Tennessee in 2015 is teaming with Habitat for Humanity to build a home for a military family. The family of Gunnery Sgt. Thomas J. Sullivan tells MassLive.com the goal is to build a home in theÃâà...
KTVA
April 22, 2018
Walker's order touches on the state's rich tradition of military history, much of it dating back to World War II. Those events include the Japanese occupation of the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. internment of some residents displaced from the Aleutians, black soldiers' role in building the Alaska-Canada HighwayÃâà...
Purpose 2 Play
April 22, 2018
U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Rob Thomas had been on a deployment and not seen his family in six months. So, he thought, what better way to return home and surprise his wife and two kids than by enlisting the help of the San Francisco 49ers? While linebacker Dekoda Watson picked Thomas upÃâà...
Glens Falls Post-Star
April 22, 2018
The ceremony was held at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. Capt. Carlos Williams, the director of the Office for Global Health Engagement, served as the master of ceremonies. The venue and guests were reflective of Currie's professional career.
Military Times
April 21, 2018
Janicijevic, who was born in Belgrade, Serbia, and came to the U.S. as a teenager, joined the military under the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest, or MAVNI, program. The program allows non-U.S. citizens with critical foreign language or medical skills to enlist and earn U.S. citizenship.
MarketWatch
April 13, 2018
WASHINGTON — Britain, France and the U.S. united Thursday around broad plans for a military strike against Syria as they worked to bridge differences over the scope and purpose of a coordinated response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, U.S. officials said. President Donald Trump met with hisÃâà...
CBS News
April 13, 2018
DAMASCUS, Syria -- President Trump may punish the Assad regime for an apparent chemical weapons attack that was carried out against civilians in Syria. While the threat of a U.S. military strike may be on minds there, it's not showing much. Medical student Khaled al-Anaz, 23, says he hasn't doneÃâà...
ThinkProgress
April 13, 2018
During congressional testimony Thursday, the Army's top officials explained that they have no knowledge of the unit cohesion concerns expressed in a report justifying President Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. Army Secretary Mark Esper and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark MilleyÃâà...
The Intercept
April 13, 2018
Decades of political turns of fortune brought us to where we are today, having moved from military rule to an emerging democracy and now backsliding. Brazil's oligarchs have reclaimed power, despite the absence of democratic legitimacy, while the most popular politician in the country over the pastÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 13, 2018
BEIRUT — Chicago-based Boeing and state-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) signed on March 30 a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to develop a new joint venture aiming to localize more than 55 percent of the maintenance, repair and overhaul services for fixed and rotary-wing militaryÃâà...
Newsweek
April 13, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping made a surprise visit to the South China Sea Thursday to observe naval exercises and spend time with his country's sailors, according to the state-run media. Pictures of Xi during the visit showed him wearing military fatigues while aboard ship and eating with members ofÃâà...
HuffPost
April 13, 2018
I'm not a saint or even a bishop, merely an interested observer of this nation's ongoing military misadventures early in the third millennium A.D. From my vantage point, I might suggest the following amendment to Augustine's dictum: Any war failing to yield peace is purposeless and, if purposeless, bothÃâà...
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