Author: Michael

If you’ve ever dreamed of flying for free, Space-A travel might be your best shot. Space-Available travel, as it’s known, is one of the biggest perks of military life, giving service members, dependents, and retirees access to military flights for little to no cost.
But here’s the deal: Space-A travel isn’t as easy as booking a commercial flight. Seats aren’t guaranteed, schedules change without warning, and some travelers get priority over others. If you’re flexible and know how the system works, though, you can use Space-A to travel the world for next to nothing.

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As the Defense Department continues implementing zero-trust cybersecurity practices across its networks, some of the military services have begun parsing out how to use the same framework to protect their operational technology from cyber threats.
Since the Pentagon released its zero trust strategy in 2022, organizations across the DOD have worked to upgrade their IT infrastructure so that it operates under zero trust — a cybersecurity concept that assumes networks are already compromised by adversaries and requires continuous monitoring and authentication of users and devices.

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Since 2019, a handful of soldiers and airmen from the New York National Guard have traveled deep into Brazil’s Amazon rainforest to take on a jungle warfare course widely viewed as among the world’s toughest military schools.
Two airmen from the New York Air Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing’s Base Defense Group completed the course in November, the fifth set of New York Guardsmen to graduate since 2019. Though other U.S.

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