There was a time, not so long ago, when earning three associate degrees and pursuing a bachelor’s degree seemed like an unreachable dream to Navy veteran Isaiah Franco. After all, his goal of a long career in the military was cruelly snuffed out after he suffered a traumatic brain injury.…
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Melissa Diana Simmons was contracted by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide care for an elderly Vietnam War veteran. Instead, Simmons and her boyfriend, James Patrick Brown, drained more than $100,000 from the victim’s bank account, forged his checks and left him in a state of physical and…
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If you have a VA loan and interest rates drop, you might consider refinancing your mortgage with a VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL). Unlike a traditional refinance, the IRRRL doesn’t require a home appraisal or inspection, income verification, or tax returns. To take advantage of an IRRRL, you…
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A Marine Corps veteran and other advocates are warning that sections contained within major proposed legislation “will cause significant harm” to veterans, students, survivors and families. The criticism is tied to the comprehensive yet somewhat controversial Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (TCAVA) being deliberated in Congress, which has faced…
When retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr. entered the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes for his Medal of Honor ceremony, he stepped into a room reserved for the nation’s most extraordinary acts of battlefield valor. For much of America, the ceremony was an introduction to one of the Vietnam War’s greatest…
The price of Apple hardware, ranging from MacBooks to accessories, is going up. The new changes to Apple products were announced as the entirety of the game and tech industry is struggling with similar issues. A week prior to these changes, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that price increases were…
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The Army’s proliferating drone use is exacerbating the modern problem of keeping everything charged. One combat team is testing ways to use its light Infantry Squad Vehicles as mobile charging stations.“As we field technology, power generation becomes increasingly problematic. The [Integrated Tactical Network], all the soldier-borne equipment, all require batteries…
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NATO is studying how to use ground and air robots to replace human soldiers in assaults, something Ukraine has been doing for more than a year. But that hasn’t stopped Russia’s continuous assault with its own, increasingly autonomous one-way attack drones.On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a social-media splash…
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Air Force officials are pursuing a space-based system to detect airborne threats and pushing off additional funding for battlespace awareness aircraft in the 2027 budget, even as the service’s fleet of radar planes is in Iran’s sights.A base contract has been awarded for a new space-based…
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The next 15 years will likely see potential adversaries crank up their space and counter-space capabilities, so the Space Force needs more people and money, the service’s chief said as he rolled out two long-awaited policy documents on Wednesday.Together, “Objective Force 2040” and “Future Operating Environment…
It seems everyone wants to rule the cosmos—or get a spaceplane. But the more satellites militaries launch and rely on, the more they need a good watchdog to protect them. And what’s better than one with a robotic arm that can also refuel?That’s where the MDA Midnight platform, unveiled at…
An unmanned helicopter concept being developed by Airbus for Marine Corps logistics missions may pave the way for an armed variant, company officials say.Airbus is working on an unmanned version of the MQ-72C Lakota for the Marines’ Aerial Logistics Connector competition; on Wednesday, the company said it had completed another…
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NASHVILLE—The Army is continuing to name its airframes after Indigenous tribes with its first tiltrotor aircraft. The MV-75 is officially the Cheyenne II, the service’s undersecretary announced Wednesday at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit.Members of the tribe have served in every U.S. armed service and during every major conflict, said…
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