Author: Michael

The Army’s top acquisition official told DefenseScoop that he expects to see further growth in resources for the service’s FUZE initiative.
FUZE, which was announced last month by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, combines elements of multiple technology innovation programs — including the xTech, Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR), ManTech, and Technology Maturation Initiative efforts — under a more integrated framework to accelerate the delivery of new capabilities to soldiers, according to the service.

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Long before grocery inflation or hoarding of toilet paper, there was a different kind of issue with the food supply: lack of volume. Throughout World War II, the U.S. saw severe shortages of items like metal, sugar, flour, coffee, and more. This was mostly due to attacks or embargoes on supplying countries. In the case of metal and rubber, those supplies were needed for the war effort rather than the general public. The same was true with many foods; citizens were given books of stamps that could be cashed in for allotment of food items during a certain period of time.

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The Pentagon ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to sail to the Caribbean, adding one of the Navy’s largest and most potent formations to the major U.S. build-up in the region. The new deployment will add the aircraft carrier’s more than 70 aircraft and multiple destroyers to the array of firepower already sent to the region for a mission the White House insists is aimed at drug traffickers.

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Before the injury, Lorna Illerbrunn said her husband would have simply wanted a retirement at a hangar, surrounded by Army helicopters, good friends, sandwiches from Jimmy John’s, and cold Miller Lite. 
Lorna Illerbrunn made sure all that was there for Garrett Illerbrunn’s retirement party, but what she really wanted was to make sure he had one last time in the cockpit of a helicopter.
“It took a lot of resources, time, energy, money, but I feel like it’s something that Garrett really could see how he was being honored,” Lorna told Task & Purpose this week.

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In an unusual form of protest, Sam O’Hara took to his city’s streets armed with a cell phone and a speaker and proceeded to follow around National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., as he played “The Imperial March” from “Star Wars.”
The iconic song conjures up images of Sith Lords, lightsabers, and galactic totalitarian regimes. And, as it turns out, it can set the stage for a fight over Constitutional rights.
In a federal lawsuit, O’Hara alleges that an Ohio National Guardsman called local police on him and interrupted his right to protest.

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Guards at a California Coast Guard station opened fire on a civilian truck as it drove toward the base gates, ignoring shouts to stop, video of the incident shows.
A handful of guards at Coast Guard Station Alameda fired at least a dozen rounds from rifles and pistols as a U-Haul truck backed toward them Thursday night. Local media captured and broadcast video of the event, which showed the truck maneuvering to point away from the gate, then backing rapidly toward the guards as voices yell for it stop.
Local media reported that two people were hit.

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