Officer Candidate School (OCS), or Officer Training School (OTS) as it is known in the Air Force, is the commissioning route generally geared toward college graduates who are entering the U.S. military outside of the military service academies, the (ROTC), or direct commissioning programs. Each branch offers its own version…
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two incidents along Ukraine’s borders with Poland and Moldova this week are a preview of potential intensified Russian provocations at Ukraine’s border crossing points with Europe, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. Two people died when Russian drones hit the Starokozache border crossing between Ukraine and…
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Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mark Olsen walked past cars piled on top of one another near the World Trade Center. Some were taxis. One of the most haunting images he recalls? Headlights still burning bright through the fog of rubble. The New Jersey Air National Guard technical…
A new survey of thousands of veterans finds overwhelming opposition to a controversial section of the comprehensive Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (TCAVA) that is currently stalled in Congress. Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, published a new survey on Thursday of more than 4,200 veterans, their family members, caregivers…
Iran appears to possess a U.S. military autonomous underwater vehicle recovered near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called the Dive-LD one of America’s most advanced unmanned submarines, while U.S. officials described it as an older vehicle that had malfunctioned and remained “dead in…
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00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: I’m your host, Brent Reeves. 00:00:09 Speaker 1: From coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences and life lessons. This Country Life is presented…
Passengers stormed the cockpit and fought hijackers for control of United Airlines Flight 93 before it crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m. Sept. 11, 2001. In Washington that morning, a shootdown order that the vice president believed had reached the military never made it to a…
“Reacher” has never pretended to be a documentary about life in the Army. Jack Reacher, played by Alan Ritchson, is a former Army major who wanders the country with almost no possessions, routinely outsmarts law enforcement and has an uncanny ability to find himself surrounded by people who need to…
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, an off-duty firefighter with Brooklyn’s Squad 1 had just finished an overnight shift. He was on his way to play golf with his brothers when he heard that a plane had struck the World Trade Center. Stephen Siller turned his truck around, returned…
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A former amateur MMA fighter charged in the 2023 death of a Tyndall Air Force Base airman was found not guilty this week, ending a case that stemmed from a fatal fight outside a Panama City, Fla., beach bar. Ross Allen Johnson, 26, was acquitted Wednesday of manslaughter and aggravated…
CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — On the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, the country’s oldest living survivor of the Japanese bombing was far below deck helping repair one the boilers of the USS St. Louis. Freeman Johnson, who turned 106 in March, never witnessed the surprise attack. He never heard…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret Service said. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month. The law…
TAMPA, Florida—U.S. special operators want AI tools that offer the power of giant data centers out on the disconnected front lines.SOF units already use generative AI “heavily” for things like resource allocation and force deployment, and are “delving” into its use for tactical operations, said Rob McClintock, the program manager…
History was made at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground(YPG) in Yuma, AZ. Dignitaries, including Army staff, parents, students and school officials, were on hand for the groundbreaking of the new, $10 Million Pfc. James D. Price Elementary School building. At the groundbreaking held on May 19, 2026, various dignitaries,…
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The 10th Mountain Division announced May 20 that it has authorized soldiers to wear crossed ski insignia on their Army Green Service Uniform garrison caps. The pins have unofficially represented soldiers of the division since World War II, but the Army never recognized them until this week. Maj. Gen. Scott…
There was a time when completing a 100-mile hike would have been unfathomable for Army veteran John Filipkowski. After all, it took years to recover from the blast. Filipkowski, a Special Forces soldier, was serving in Afghanistan when an IED tore through his vehicle, flinging his body airborne and causing…
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