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They can evade radar and penetrate enemy airspace—but America’s most advanced aircraft can’t dodge a missile on the runway.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon deployed six B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia, a remote U.S. airbase in the Indian Ocean. Within hours, satellite images of the bombers circulated widely on social media, showing them fully exposed on the tarmac—without hangars or shelters to protect them. While the B-2 is nearly impossible to detect or destroy in flight, it is a sitting duck on the ground.
For the first time the UK military has revealed
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Consider this your sign to start planning your next girls’ trip. Take some time to reconnect with friends, new and old, take a break from your everyday responsibilities, and make lasting memories. Whether you want to stay in the U.S. or adventure abroad, here are some places to inspire your next getaway.
Domestic
1. Asheville, North Carolina
The Biltmore Hotel. Photo: Erin Henderson/WATM
Located in western North Carolina and a little over two hours from Charlotte, Asheville is a hub of adventure.
Sure, troops getting bitten and envenomated by poisonous snakes isn’t high on the list of things the Department of Defense needs to worry about. It’s probably not even in the top 100, but for the guy in the unit who was bitten by a Saw-Scaled Viper while out on patrol. That particular viper is active at night, very common in Afghanistan, and is responsible for the most deaths by snake bite. It would take about 15 minutes to become one of the biggest issues a troop has out in the field.
A 22-year-old soldier who died last month during basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, has been identified as Pvt. Gabriel Perez, Army officials have announced.
Perez, of Anchorage, Alaska, died on April 24 while assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment, a Fort Jackson news release says.
One of the Army’s main training sites, Fort Jackson announced last month that a basic combat training soldier had been “found deceased during training.” His unit held a 48-hour training stand down following his death.
f you had to put together a fleet of aircraft to launch a war, you probably wouldn’t change a thing from the line-up of a massive “elephant walk” the Air Force put on last weekend at Kadena Air Base in Japan.
It’s one of the biggest elephant walks — what pilots call a runway parade of dozens of aircraft assigned to one base or mission — we’ve ever seen, but it really jumps out for the message the Air Force seems to be sending with the various types of planes on display.
You will notice that I did not use the other “trans” word in the title because it is not biologically possible to change genders. Therefore, I will not use the word since its existence alone is a lie.
Public Domain
On May 6th the Supreme Court’s opinion backed up the administration’s ban on transvestites serving in the military.
There will be much debate on the topic while the identification and removal of as many as 1,000 soon-to-be former servicemembers continues.