On a chilly morning in November 1911, Lt. Giulio Gavotti, an Italian pilot, leaned out from the cockpit of his monoplane over the oases and farmlands of modern-day Libya and tossed four small grenades onto an encampment of Ottoman soldiers. Widely covered in the international press, the bombardment was ultimately ineffective and caused no casualties.
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The mid-air collision involving a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter and a civilian airliner earlier this year, which killed scores of passengers and crew above the nation’s capital, has been shrouded in mystery as to the cause of the deadly crash.
However, the New York Times just published an article on the incident, with evidence from cockpit and air traffic control recordings, which seems to validate the one possibility the article refuses to address — that the crash was intentional by the U.S. Army pilot.
The U.S. military carried out airstrikes on more than 800 targets in Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen since March 15, U.S. Central Command said this past week.
These strikes have destroyed multiple command-and-control facilities, air defense systems, advanced weapons manufacturing facilities, advanced weapons storage locations, and killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders,” CENTCOM spokesman Dave Eastburn said in a statement to Task & Purpose, echoing comments given to reporters at the end of the week.
Federal immigration agents arrested the spouse of an active-duty Coast Guardsman on Thursday on-base at Naval Air Station Key West.
The Coast Guardsman and spouse were at the government housing area on the base on April 24 when agents of Homeland Security Investigations, a part of Immigration and Custom Enforcement or ICE. The family was in the process of moving onto the base in Florida.
Reports of the arrest were posted to social media, including military subreddits on Reddit.
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History doesn’t get much juicier than this!
U.S. Army Capt. Travis Chewning-Kulick is fast. Very fast. Specifically he’s very fast when inside a U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal suit. Chewning-Kulick, commander of the 752nd Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), just set a Guinness World Record for the fastest mile in a bomb disposal suit.
His time? 7 minutes and 4 seconds.
Chewning-Kulick set the new world record on the morning of Friday, April 25 at Fort Cavazos in Texas.