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Host L Todd Wood talks with Matthew Newgent, West Point graduate, and with The MacArthur Society – Save West Point! And America too, for that matter!
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U.S. troops might become more physically fit if military installations banned cheeseburgers and other fast food, according to the military’s highest ranking enlisted Marine. Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Troy E. Black, made the comments on a popular military podcast.
“If you want to reduce obesity, serve different types of food at the chow hall,” Black told hosts Alex Morrow and Drew Hammond during an Aug. 4 episode of the MOPs & MOEs podcast. “Remove immediately all fast-food restaurants from all installations.

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The U.S. Navy is preparing to put industry systems through their paces as the sea service looks for new underwater sensors, automated target recognition capabilities and other tools to protect assets and perform other critical missions.
Technology Operational Experimentation Event 25.2 is part of a campaign led by the Office of Naval Research-Global that will look at emerging tech to support operational objectives related to “subsea and seabed warfare,” according to a new sources-sought notice.

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Moving, especially moving across the country, isn’t something that gets easier. The more times a military family packs up and moves … it might become more efficient, of course. But leaving the place one knows, where you’ve made friends and family, that part never gets easier. There are only more people who are left behind.
If you’ve ever PCSd, you know the drill. You may be numb to all the changes of moving and landing somewhere new.

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A 10th Mountain Division soldier has been charged with the murder of a fellow soldier at the Fort Drum, New York base, Army officials said.
Spc. Riley Birbilas was charged Monday in the murder of Spc. Jacob Ashton. Both served as infantrymen assigned to 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment in the 10th Mountain’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team. 
Ashton was found dead on Fort Drum on Aug. 5. Officials did not release additional details about his death.
Birbilas was booked in the Oneida County jail Aug. 9, according to the county’s inmate search tool.

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On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Task & Purpose will publish the first edition of a new interview series with military leaders and newsmakers, ‘Between Two T-Walls.’ Our first episode is a wide-ranging, sit-down interview between Pentagon reporter Jeff Schogol and Army Maj. Gen. Joel “JB” Vowell, who we spoke to as he was finishing a one-year stint as the commanding general of Operation Inherent Resolve.
We modeled the show’s format on the deadpan celebrity interview show “Between Two Ferns,” hosted by Zach Galifianakis.

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