After floodwaters trapped hundreds in their homes in Kentucky, National Guard personnel flew in and airlifted them to safety — and they did it in a single day.
Airmen and soldiers with the state’s National Guard evacuated 296 people from a pair of housing complexes that had become mired by flooding in Martin County, Kentucky, according to an Air National Guard news release by Dale Greer. The first floors of both apartment buildings were flooded, forcing the occupants to gather on the second floor, Capt. Cody Stagner, a spokesperson with the Kentucky National Guard, told Task & Purpose.
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More than 5,000 military personnel from roughly 35 nations and international groups are embarking on a 12-day, U.S.-led maritime security exercise, marking the largest multinational training event in the Middle East region to date, according to officials involved.
This year, that engagement — U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s International Maritime Exercise 25 — is supplying new pathways for theater-to-theater interoperability and technology-enabled cooperation in conjunction with U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa’s Cutlass Express exercise.
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Actor Kevyn Major Howard, who played the Marine combat photographer Rafterman in the Vietnam War movie “Full Metal Jacket,” died on Feb. 14 at the age of 69, according to media reports.
Matthew Modine, who played the lead character, Pvt. Joker, in the movie, paid tribute to his colleague in a Saturday post on X.
“Kevyn Major Howard gave and gave and gave so much to the world and especially the men and women of our armed forces,” Modine wrote. “He became famous for his role of ‘Rafterman’ in Stanley Kubrick’s FULL METAL JACKET.
The Russian Defence Export intermediary Rosoboronexport is showcasing the T-90MS main battle tank export variant at IDEX 2025.
EDGE entity Katim has partnered with Spanish IT and defence systems company Indra to boost ultra-secure communications.