Author: Michael

When your service member is deployed, the last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen cooking for yourself (and possibly the kids) every night. Crockpot meals are the ultimate hack—they save time, minimize cleanup, and provide nutritious, home-cooked meals with almost no effort.
This guide includes 5 easy, military spouse-approved crockpot recipes that require minimal effort, use affordable ingredients, and can be prepped ahead for easy freezer meals. Whether you’re feeding just yourself or cooking for kids too, these slow cooker meals make deployment life a little easier.

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The Space Development Agency is looking for industry to conduct studies on how the organization’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) can be integrated into President Donald Trump’s ambitious plans to boost homeland missile defense.
SDA published a solicitation on Wednesday calling for “executive summaries” from vendors interested in performing 60-day studies focused on leveraging the PWSA and other capabilities into the “Iron Dome for America” — a sprawling effort to improve the United States’ defenses against advanced adversary missile threats.

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Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** The United States has always been plagued by regional rivalries. In the mid-19th century, they led to a violent civil war. In the mid-20th century, they led to some mildly amusing maps.

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The Pentagon needs more technology and expanded authorities to deal with large numbers of incursions over U.S. military installations by small unmanned aerial systems, the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command told lawmakers.
NORAD and Northcom chief Gen. Gregory Guillot revealed more details Thursday about widespread, recent incidents that highlight the drone problem.

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The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and the merchant vessel Besiktas-M collided about 11:46 p.m. on Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea, Navy Cmdr. Timothy Gorman, a Navy 6th Fleet spokesman, announced.
Both ships were operating near Port Said, Egypt, at the time, Gorman said in a brief news release.
“The collision did not endanger the Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) as there are no reports of flooding or injuries,” Gorman said. “The propulsion plants are unaffected and in a safe and stable condition. The incident is under investigation.

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