The Marine Corps confirmed a five-year growth plan that adds more than 6,500 billets across infantry battalions, drone units, air defenses, and new occupational specialties. The extra structure is meant to staff the systems the Corps has already bought and the units it is still building. A Sept. 1 statement…

For Masako Murphy, one of the most important conversations after Sept. 11, 2001, began with something her son couldn’t tell her. He was angry at his father. His father had been killed at the Pentagon, and he couldn’t understand why he hadn’t escaped after seeing the airplane coming. Murphy didn’t…

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By the time most Americans understood that the country was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001, the military’s air defense network had already been improvising for nearly an hour, working with a fraction of the information it needed and, in at least one case, chasing a hijacked airplane that had…

American Airlines Flight 77 struck the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. Sept. 11, 2001, killing 184 people — 125 inside the building and 59 aboard the aircraft, according to the Department of Defense’s account published for the 2008 dedication of the Pentagon Memorial. Unfinished construction work saved…

Portable power stations are usually compared by battery capacity and inverter output. In this case, that doesn’t help much. The BLUETTI AC200L, EcoFlow DELTA 3 Max, and Jackery HomePower 2000 Plus v2 all have a 2,048Wh battery and 2,400W continuous AC output. On the front of the box, they look…

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