Executive transport for heads of state provides a means of safe and secure travel. It can also serve as an ambassador in its own right on state visits. To show support and national pride, countries prefer to operate domestic executive transports. The VC-25s that serve as Air Force One were made by Boeing while Russia’s Il-96 presidential transport aircraft were manufactured by Voronezh. Naturally, the British Royal Air Force operates a modified Airbus A330 for executive transport.
A Royal Air Force Voyager KC2 refuels two RAF Tornado GR4, March 4, 2015, over Iraq.
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This is Chapter 2 in our Mighty MilSpouse Retirement Memoir, a monthly series written in real-time by military spouse Lindsay Swoboda. Read Chapter 1: Now What.
I remember the afternoon light pooled across my desk at our home in Virginia when I leaned back in my office chair, taking in my conversation with my counselor. She had just shaken me with her words, and I allowed the reverberations to echo through my mind and body. Sometimes the best I can do is listen and let a message sink in. We had been discussing retirement from the military and how our family was preparing for our next move.
Veterans may have received lower monthly disability payments than they should have due to errors made by a computer used by the Department of Veterans Affairs to calculate the amount they should be paid, a federal watchdog found.
It’s unclear how far back the miscalculations go, but some veterans with particularly serious disabilities — like amputations — may have been short-changed anywhere from $132.74 to $4,170.59 in their monthly disability checks. Other veterans may have received overpayments as high as $373.18, according to a VA Inspector General report released this week.
The Space Force successfully launched a Global Positioning System satellite on Friday — marking the second instance the service has demonstrated its ability to quickly put a GPS space vehicle into orbit in a fraction of the usual time.
The GPS III SV-08 was launched via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It’s the eighth space vehicle for the GPS III constellation to go on orbit.
The Army Criminal Investigation Division is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for the death of 1st Lt. Marciano Parisano earlier this month in Honduras.
Parisano, 25, was serving as a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot with the 1st Battalion, 228 Aviation Regiment assigned to Soto Cano Air Base, near Comayagua, Honduras. The base is the headquarters for Joint Task Force-Bravo, the U.S. military’s lead expeditionary force in Central and South America.
On May 3, Parisano was found dead in Comayagua.
The Army’s recently completed Arcane Thunder 25 exercise incorporated uncrewed surface vessels, unmanned aerial systems, high-altitude balloons and data-sharing capabilities to test out deep sensing and multi-domain operations.
The live-fire event, which took place in Poland, Germany and Arizona on May 11-27, was led by the 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force under 56th Artillery Command and included international allies.
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U.S. Cyber Command’s network defense arm has officially been designated as a sub-unified command.
Congress directed Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN) to elevate to a sub-unified command under Cybercom in the fiscal 2025 annual defense policy bill.
JFHQ-DODIN was created in 2015 as a subordinate headquarters under Cyber Command to protect and defend the Pentagon’s network globally.
Personnel taking part in Nato’s largest a