The year was 1968. Mike Vining was a senior in high school. According to his answers on his now-sunset Together We Served Page, Vining heard about the Tet Offensive and wanted to join the military with the expressed purpose of serving in Vietnam.
His service afforded him the opportunity to do two things he likes to do: “work with explosives and climb mountains.” He probably never dreamed he would become Sgt. Maj. Mike Vining: the epitome of the modern American soldier through badass military memes.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) — and its international research partners, including Russia and China — are increasingly using digitization technologies and AI to accelerate and improve upon their sprawling searches through decades-old materials to identify individuals who remain missing from past conflicts involving the United States, senior officials recently told a small group of reporters.
“It’s not only at DPAA, but worldwide. This helps us because it opens up records,” Darla Stencavage, chief of the agency’s Joint Commission Support Division and U.S.
For nearly 100 years, U.S. Army soldiers have designed and worn unit insignia, also known as unit patches. And for roughly the same amount of time, soldiers have made fun of each other’s patches.
The tradition of Army patches dates back to 1918, when the 81st Infantry Division deployed to Europe wearing a shoulder insignia they had designed for training exercises in South Carolina. Other units complained about the unauthorized unit item to Gen. John Pershing, who, rather than punishing the 81st, authorized the patch and recommended that other units design their own.
Anticipating the need to replenish its units during high-attrition combat with advanced adversaries like China, the U.S. Air Force is looking to industry for AI-fueled wargaming tools to play out potential scenarios.
The department issued a request for information Tuesday to apprise the deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services about vendors’ capabilities.
“The Air Force plans to simulate high-intensity conflict conditions in order to stress test training and accession pipelines and explore sustainment under high attrition.
An inquiry has found British soldiers in Kenya
In their 2023 article, “Russia Won’t Sit Idly by after Finland and Sweden Join NATO,” Nicholas Lokker and Heli Hautala argued that it would be a mistake to assume Russia won’t respond to NATO’s expansion, especially once their preoccupation with the war in Ukraine ceases. Two years later, we asked them to revisit their analysis in light of recent Russian gray zone influence tactics employed in the Baltics.
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The Space Force has deployed a satellite designed to demonstrate experimental position, navigation and timing technologies — marking the first successful liftoff for United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket under the National Security Space Launch program.
The Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NST-3) payload was hoisted Tuesday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, into geosynchronous orbit, where it will spend the next year conducting about 100 different experiments.
If there’s one constant in the military, it’s that every older generation will insist they had it worse than the new one. Enter: the “stress card,” a card that recruits could hold up during training to take a pause. It’s a thing everyone has heard about, but hardly anybody seems to have personally witnessed. The reason being: They’re a bit of a myth.