Saturday, September 19

At 8 p.m. on Feb. 10, 1970, the darkness shrouding Fire Support Base Chamberlain in South Vietnam filled with moans, cries and the voice of a dead man. The U.S. Army was responsible for the broadcast. A psychological operations team supporting the 25th Infantry Division positioned loudspeakers around the base…

Military movies based on true stories already have an advantage over fiction: Sometimes the screenwriter barely needs to embellish anything. Films such as Hacksaw Ridge, Black Hawk Down and The Outpost depict events that seem almost impossible. Look beyond the two-hour versions, though, and the real histories are often bigger,…

Every active and reserve Marine now owes an annual Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) protective mask fit and seal test. The Marine Corps made the requirement service-wide in MARADMIN 384/26, signed Aug. 21 by Lieutenant General Jay M. Bargeron, the deputy commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations. The change…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will get new defenses against small drones in coming weeks, part of a “whole-of-government” effort to better protect the nation’s spaceports as the White House pushes for hundreds more launches per year.The new gear will come from Joint Interagency Task Force 401,…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed leaders and representatives from seven regional countries for talks on deepening cooperation on Friday, as overnight Russian strikes in multiple regions sparked fires and caused several deaths and injuries. The inaugural summit of the so-called “Carpathian Eight” brings together Ukraine, Romania,…

A pilot safely ejected from a crashing F-16 Fighting Falcon on Thursday in Grand Traverse County, Mich. The jet, part of the 149th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard, was “on a routine training mission from the Air National Guard’s Combat Readiness Training Center, in Alpena” during the…

A West Virginia man already serving life in prison for murdering his wife pleaded guilty to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of more than $354,000 by falsely claiming he had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Justice Department. Zachary Hess Dawson, 39, currently an inmate at the Mount…

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Iran’s top diplomat said resuming diplomacy with the U.S. “isn’t impossible,” after what he described as “creative discussions” with Qatar, a mediator in the war between Washington and Tehran. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X on Friday that progress “hinges on U.S. understanding of one simple fact: pressure doesn’t…

The Navy will reportedly soon deploy another carrier to the Middle East as the United States’ war with Iran continues. The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), the United States Navy’s fourth Nimitz-class super carrier currently stationed at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., will be deployed for more than seven months to…

A generation that fought World War II is down to its last few thousand. With each passing year, the country loses another living connection to the men who crossed oceans to fight it. On Sunday, it lost the oldest of the Marines still among them. Roy Henry Drinkard died Aug.…

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