Author: Michael

When Andrew Lennox began looking for a civilian job after leaving the Marine Corps in 2023, he initially took an internship with a natural gas distributor in Detroit. But on his first visit to a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital, he knew he wanted to work there.
“Some old soldier smacked me on the back, called me a ‘Jarhead,’ Lennox told Task & Purpose on Friday. “I was like, ‘I’m home.

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L Todd Wood sits down with Bob Amsterdam from London, discussing corruption in Kyiv and the repression of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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Firefly Aerospace received a launch service contract for the Space Force’s upcoming Victus Sol mission, the latest in a series of demonstrations aimed at fast-tracking new on-orbit capabilities for warfighters, according to the service’s acquisition arm.
Under the $21.8 million deal announced Thursday evening by Space Systems Command’s Space Safari program office, the company will position a launch vehicle and space vehicle on standby so that it can be ready for action at a moment’s notice.

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Librarians in the schools of 66,000 children of American service members are being directed to pull books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics” at Department of Defense-run schools, according to a memo viewed by Task & Purpose.
But they’re doing so without a list of specific titles or even clear guidance on what books to target.

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Now that the wars with Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis have seemingly ended, and the border with Syria relatively quiet, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has turned his attention to Iran. In a recent meeting with President Donald Trump, the subject of American support for an attack on Iran’s nuclear program was discussed. Though the details have not been revealed, it has been suggested that the US is weighing options for supporting a potential Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

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