When actor John Wayne visited American soldiers in Vietnam in the summer of 1966, he was warmly welcomed. As he spoke to groups and individuals, he was presented gifts and letters from American and South Vietnamese troops alike. This was not the case during his USO tours in 1942 and…
You can’t go to the Hard Deck, the bar featured in “Top Gun: Maverick,” in real life because it doesn’t actually exist. The good news is that there’s a place both exactly like it and even better at the same time. While former naval aviator Capt. Brian Ferguson was working…
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Just three days after top military leaders left the Air and Space Force Association’s February conference in Colorado, the U.S. and Israel struck Iran, commencing Operation Epic Fury. Now, more than six months later, service officials are scheduled to gather again outside Washington D.C. to pitch their top budget priorities…
You can’t keep a good man down, especially when that man participated in Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944. British World War II veteran Bernard Jordan was a former Royal Navy officer who used to tell people “what he did during the war was nothing unusual, and only what many…
Mohamed Farrah Aidid was one of Somalia’s most dangerous and aggressive warlords. He was instrumental in the overthrow of communist dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. After the ouster of Barre, Somalia fell into a period of civil war, where rival factions competed for power, led by former military officers, who became…
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly resigned on Thursday, saying the government isn’t willing to spend enough on the military at a time of “rising threats.” The resignation is another blow to embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is already facing demands from Labour colleagues to step…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction of the 250-foot-high triumphal arch that President Donald Trump wants built near the Lincoln Memorial could occur 20 hours per day, year-round, as officials push to complete the project within three years, according to a preliminary assessment by the National Park Service. Tower cranes up to…
A new study finds that the federal government’s deployment of U.S. National Guard soldiers into Washington D.C. heavily reduced property crimes but had no real impact on murders and violent crime. Thousands of National Guardsmen from across the country have been in the nation’s capital since August 2025, following orders…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: What is going…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S and Iran traded strikes for a second day, pushing the Middle East closer to the resumption of a full-scale war. The American attack, which lasted into Thursday morning in Iran, appeared more intense and wider than the day before, but Tehran released…
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00:00:00 Speaker 1: That afternoon, we had one pounds back, two seventy fives and three fifty, so we did a mock pack out where they had to get to the pin with this day, we kind of would help them, you know, like when they would start to kind of…
Several senior federal technology officials responsible for agency cybersecurity and IT systems are frustrated by the lack of White House guidance on adopting Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model, several sources told Nextgov/FCW.Agency chief information officers, or CIOs, manage swaths of digital infrastructure that supports government operations and are facing renewed pressure…
It’s been six years since the U.S. Army partnered with the American Red Cross at Fort Polk, La. in a pioneering dental assistant program that trains military spouses, veterans and other military family members in a specialized field of work. Individuals are once again reaping the benefits. The hiatus was…
Military bases and installations are hardly immune to the problems of the U.S. power grid, which was struggling to handle the nation’s needs even before the AI boom added a huge new demand for electricity. “You can reasonably take the provocative stance that in the AI race, energy actually doesn’t matter,…
Brittany Knauer’s life turned upside down on Nov. 4, 2025. That’s the day her husband, Marine Corps veteran Kane Knauer, died by suicide. He was 38 years old. While she had seen some signs of depression and isolation in her husband, Kane’s suicide was a shocking blow. After all, the…
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