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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,…
The U.S. military will never again rely on just one vendor of AI tools as it did with Anthropic, the defense undersecretary for research and engineering said Thursday.“We were single-threaded on one vendor, one AI vendor at the Department of War, and to integrate into classified systems is not just putting your software…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA, is calling on the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to stop spending millions of U.S. taxpayers dollars on animal experiments in foreign countries. PETA, in a letter sent to Hegseth on May 6, says that “gruesome and…
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Ukrainian companies are attracting American private investment and Pentagon interest with award-winning drones, but U.S. export laws threaten to squelch efforts to develop technology, company execs said Friday.U.S. investors are pouring money into Ukrainian defense startups. For example, Swarmer, which makes AI software to control multiple drones simultaneously, saw its…
More than two dozen lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expedite its review of mental health therapies like psychedelics as part of multiple pieces of legislation already drafted. Military.com has reported on different legislative efforts in the House and Senate that largely center on…
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Veterans create one of the largest skilled workforce pipelines into civilian industries such as public safety and emergency response management, manufacturing and firearms, infrastructure and UAS/remote operations. They are certainly built for it with their military backgrounds. Their experience and training typically translate to attention to detail and judgment in…
For almost 50 years, the family of Coast Guard veteran Lonny Reeves searched for answers to his mysterious disappearance. They finally have closure. Remains discovered in North Florida back in 1978 have been positively identified as Reeves, ending a nearly five-decade-old cold case. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office announced on…
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DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk’s daughter, born just a few weeks ago, probably had her afternoon nap interrupted on Friday. See, there was some noise over the house. The walls probably shook a bit, too. That’s what happens when an F-16 flies over the family home, repeatedly —…
