Author: Michael

The Air Force’s search and rescue field is losing a veteran service member. A decorated member of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Callie retired after six years of service. Yes, Callie is a dog. A dog with years of experiennoce and several deployments.
Callie quietly retired earlier this year, but the Air National Guard released more details on the dog’s service and farewell ceremony this weekend.

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Michael Yon Substack
This is a mind-dump, sans edit
Pakistan-India “skirmish” is molting into actual war.
What is world war? Naturally, we might think of The Great War (later called World War I), and World War II.
These World Wars brought all the major players into high levels of commitment. Many countries were all-in. Do or die. Many countries died.
The land and seas are still there. The tides still come and go, rivers still flow. Borders were redrawn and many oligarchical structures were shattered. People who may have thought they were invincible were soon dead.

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Active duty female soldiers in combat roles will be required to run up to three minutes faster than they previously had to in the annual fitness test.

US Army photo

All soldiers can expect to do more push-ups, and women in combat jobs will have to pick up the pace in a two-mile run as much as three minutes faster, under the Army’s new fitness requirements.
“There are a couple of age brackets where your minimum run time, you might have to run about 30 seconds faster in order to pass. There are a couple of areas where you’ve got to do more hand-release push-ups,” Command Sgt.

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the existing West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus to become a “National Center for Warrior Independence” that would house thousands of homeless veterans. 
The order, “Keeping Promises to Veterans and Establishing a National Center for Warrior Independence,” directs VA Secretary Doug Collins to create a plan within 120 days that would allow the West Los Angeles VA campus to house up to 6,000 veterans by Jan. 1, 2028.

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The Defense Deep State is undermining President Trump’s guidance to build regional deterrence. They’ve drug their feet on re-nuking Tomahawks carried by Submarines, Destroyers, and Cruisers.

President Trump made it clear in his first term – the U.S. will re-add the W-80 Nuclear Warhead to the old but reliable Tomahawk Cruise Missile. Congress directed this at the end of the first term, the Biden Committee slow rolled the plan, and now that President Trump is back for his second term, the Navy rolls out their plan for Initial Operational Capability (IOC).

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