Actor Blair Underwood was in first grade the first time that he remembers his mother saying she wanted to write a book.
It could have been a fleeting memory, a random thought spoken by a military spouse juggling so many tasks. Underwood (“L.A. Law,” “Rules of Engagement”) never forgot it, though, mainly because Marilyn Ann Scales Underwood kept repeating it over the years.
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Marilyn’s husband, Frank Sr., spent 28 years in the United States Army and retired as a colonel.
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The United States Navy confirmed plans to increase production of the Hammerhead anti-submarine mine system
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The United States is fast-tracking the deployment of directed energy weapons, including lasers and high-powered microwaves, to counter drone threats
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The ARMD reached supersonic speeds using Ursa Major’s flight-ready Draper liquid rocket engine, developed in just eight months for scalable missile propulsion.
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The Navy does not lack commitment, courage, or talent. It lacks time. That is especially true when it comes to material readiness.
Ships’ material condition suffer because of deferred maintenance. Scheduled maintenance windows stretch longer than planned. Critical decisions are made with incomplete or outdated data. None of this is due to a lack of effort by our dedicated Sailors or shipyard workers. It’s the result of 20th-century processes colliding with 21st-century demands.
As Command Master Chief at NAVSEA, I saw firsthand how maintenance delays ripple across the fleet.
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has launched a successful strike using single use attack drones to destroy an AN/FPS-117 air defence radar near Al-Qaisum airport in Saudi Arabia. The $20 million radar has a 460 kilometre detection range, with its targeting representing part of broader efforts by Iranian forces to single out the U.S. and its strategic partners’ radar networks to limit their situational awareness and their air defence capabilities. Following the U.S.
The Polish Air Force scrambled MiG-29 fighters to intercept a Russian Il-20M reconnaissance aircraft flying over international waters in the Baltic Sea, visually identifying the target and escorting it. The aircraft was reported to have been operating without a filed flight plan and with its transponder switched off, which represented its ninth such mission of the year.