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Tracy with My Chow Line has done it again! 🌟 Our latest video features our Grill Master, smoking some amazing meatloaf and having a chat with Joe Crane. Mr. Crane served with the 7th SFG on ODA 783 & ODA 761 from 1979 to 2003, retiring as a 1SG.

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The job of ordnance disposal technicians is rapidly changing. After decades of handling prevasive ground-level threats of improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan and Iraq, disposal techs are reinventing their jobs for a new threat: drones with explosives. As they adjust, they are adding drones to their own arsenals for dealing with explosives.
Over the last two decades, Army ordnance disposal technicians were tasked with rendering more than 100,000 improvised explosive devices “safe” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The Space Development Agency is bringing a new prime vendor into the mix as it builds out its giant constellation of next-generation satellites in low-Earth orbit.
Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems — a Terran Orbital company based in Irvine, California — is one of two contractors selected to build Gamma variant platforms for tranche two of the data transport layer of the Pentagon’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), the agency announced Friday.

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The Defense Innovation Unit is moving fast to expand the military’s arsenal of commercial drones and access to connected digital capabilities via a new prize opportunity that’s heavily inspired by real-world combat observations from the ongoing war in Ukraine. 
Some U.S. service members will inform the process and help decide what technologies are ultimately cleared for wider use in DIU’s new Blue UAS Refresh Challenge, according to the official overseeing it. 
“One of the things about the upcoming prize challenge — it’s different.

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