Both the commanding officer and command master chief of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, were fired on Friday, the Navy announced.
Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were relieved “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to perform leadership duties,” a brief Navy news release says.
The Navy has not said publicly exactly why Robblee and Phillips were fired.
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Movies are designed to entertain us — to make us laugh, to inform us, to scare us, to make us feel something. Every film we see takes us on some sort of journey. “Warfare” does just that. Written and directed by Iraq War Veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, director of “Civil War,” “Warfare” embeds audiences with a U.S. Navy platoon. When their operation goes wrong, the only way out is together.
The film is a visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern war, told like never before: in real-time and based on the memory of the people who were there.
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The recent resumption of hostilities in the Red Sea underscores a potentially serious problem facing the Navy: It’s burning through missiles faster than it can replace them. For the first time in decades, the Navy has had extended periods of combat at sea as it faced 21st-century threats during Operation Prosperity Guardian and the renewed effort against the Houthis, named Operation Rough Rider.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Now that the Space Force’s Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) is officially in its “pilot phase,” the service intends to ramp up the program and sign contracts for even more mission areas this year, according to a Space Force official.
Col. Rich Kniseley, director of the Commercial Space Office (COMSO), told reporters Thursday that the service will stand up CASR pilots across three mission areas in 2025.
Air Force Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had to make life-and-death decisions on the very first day of the Global War on Terror.
The Senate confirmed Caine on Friday morning as the president’s top military advisor. He replaces Air Force Gen. Charles Q. “CQ” Brown Jr., whom President Donald Trump fired in February.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Caine was assigned to the Washington, D.C.
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The regimental beret parade is an iconic moment