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A Coast Guard rescue swimmer died Thursday from injuries sustained during a rescue at sea late last month. 
Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Jaggers was a rescue swimmer, a rate known in the service as an Aviation Survival Technician, assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Oregon. He suffered “critical injuries,” the Coast Guard said, during the rescue of a crewman on the Momi Arrow, a commercial freighter, 120 miles off the coast of Cape Flattery, Washington.

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The military and Federal Aviation Administration will conduct a high-energy laser test over the weekend, the Pentagon announced Friday, confirming DefenseScoop’s reporting earlier this week.
The FAA and Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Defense Department’s counter-drone hub, will conduct the test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico between March 7-8. The test is intended to advance “the safe use of counter-unmanned aerial systems in the United States” and boost interagency coordination, according to the Pentagon.

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An Army doctrine writer, Lt. Col. Scott McMahan spends most of his days turning wonky military concepts and research data into the manuals that soldiers use to do their jobs. Whether the topic is arctic combat, contested airspace, or deployment guidance, his goal is to make the Army’s basic instruction manuals for each simple enough that a high schooler could easily understand it.
He can now do that much quicker, he says, under an Army push to use artificial intelligence to create doctrines.

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On March 11, 1944, anti-aircraft fire struck a B-24D Liberator bomber, causing to crash off Papua New Guinea.
Eleven airmen, including 2nd Lt. Thomas Kelly Jr., were on board the Heaven Can Wait. After an extensive search couldn’t locate their remains, the American Graves Registration Service deemed them unrecoverable in 1950.
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It is likely they would have remained so, if not for the dogged persistence of Kelly’s family.

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