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Two veterans are among five finalists in a national beard contest, with the chance to win $20,000 for their chosen charity. BJ Ganem, a Marine Corps veteran from Wisconsin who served in Iraq, and Damon Friedman, a retired special warfare officer who served 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps…
A 37-year-old Indian national who is living in the U.S. on a student visa has been sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding a Vietnam veteran. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge John D. Russell sentenced Venkateswara Chagamreddy, of San Antonio, Texas, to 30 months in prison, followed by three…
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If you think the Air Force Reserve just chills on the sidelines, you just might want to read on. As reservists, along with their active-duty cohorts, prepare to ring in the Air Force’s birthday, it seems fitting to point out some of the major moments the Reserve has been involved…
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Lt. Col. James Harvey had one wish for much of his Air Force career. He wanted the 332nd Fighter Group — the Tuskegee Airmen — to be recognized for winning the Air Force’s first-ever aerial gunnery competition. “We were the original ‘Top Gun,'” he told AARP Studios. “Our competitors didn’t…
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The arrival of new weapons has often been followed closely by their use against civilian populations for strategic effects. Submarines, bombers, rockets; The Lusitania, Dresden, London. This 20th-century history portends that the emerging capabilities of the 21st century—cyber attacks, information warfare—will be similarly used against civilian targets. The challenge will…
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Seventy-five years after a U.S. Air Force transport plane disappeared over the Yukon with 44 people aboard, a team of volunteers and investigators plans to use artificial intelligence and satellite technology to find it. The Douglas C-54 Skymaster departed Elmendorf Air Force Base on January 26, 1950, carrying 42 service…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: I’m sitting there and he walks and he turns broadside and just like, all right, tank, whatever do you want to take the shot? And I’m like, I don’t like that branch, so I go even lower and wider do the same thing, and then he’s at…
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With both sunny summer days and Memorial Day on the horizon, Team RWB (Red, White, and Blue) has come up with a plan to get people moving while honoring soldiers lost in battle. On May 1, the nonprofit organization launched “Memorial Minutes,” a fitness initiative challenging Americans to move 40…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: In November of twenty sixteen. Tommy Ballard was hunting for something more important than a deer or a turkey, and it’s that hunt that may have gotten him killed. That’s next on Blood Trails. It was the second Saturday of Kentucky’s deer season in twenty sixteen, and…
Navy Veteran Merle Ritter once told his family that he never had many birthday parties growing up. As a kid, his parents treated birthdays like any other day. Then the great depression set in, making birthdays even lower on the priority list. “It’s kind of sad when you think about…
Tiger Tech Solutions, a Miami-based small business led by CEO Harrison Wittels and COO Rick Whittington, has spent more than a decade building wearable biometric technology designed for environments where traditional medical monitoring systems often fail. In an interview with Military.com at the eMerge Americas Conference, Wittels and Whittington described…
Fourteen soldiers from the 7th Army Training Command represented the Americans who liberated one of the worst Nazi concentration camps at a ceremony in Austria on May 10. The troops, assigned to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center’s 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, provided the color and honor guards for the…
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The body of the second of two missing U.S. soldiers has been recovered by joint military forces in Morocco after a training mission went awry, concluding a days-long search that ended in heartbreak. The soldier was identified in a press release by U.S. Army Europe and Africa as Spc. Mariyah…
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