Author: Michael

Five athletes from Tufts University’s men’s lacrosse team are in the hospital with a serious and life-threatening muscular disorder after a workout with a U.S. Navy sailor who recently graduated as a Navy SEAL.
A dozen members of the men’s lacrosse team were diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis after taking part in the workout on Monday, Sept. 16, a spokesman for Tufts University confirmed with Task & Purpose. Five of those athletes were hospitalized due to the severity of their conditions; Tufts said that number could change although as of press time it remains only five.

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Eight decades after the Allies jumped into the Netherlands in a failed attempt to seize a path into Germany, hundreds of paratroopers once again descended into Arnhem. Soldiers from more than a dozen NATO countries parachuted onto Ginkel Heath, outside of the Dutch city on Saturday, Sept. 21, commemorating the same jumps done by the Allies 80 years ago during Operation Market Garden. The jumps culminated a week of memorial events for the mission, a failed attempt during World War II to secure an invasion route into Germany.

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A former U.S. Army soldier who posted a video to YouTube threatening to commit a mass shooting at Fort Irwin will spend 24 months in prison. Christian Beyer, 42, was formally sentenced on Sept. 19, nearly a year after he shared his intention to sneak onto the base and murder specific soldiers.
The two-year sentence comes three months after Beyer pleaded guilty to sending threats via interstate communication.

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Image by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Authored by Haley McLean via Deaclassified with Julie Kelly,
In the days and weeks leading up to January 6, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was moving in lockstep with the political anxieties of top Democratic leaders.
These Democrats grew anxious as over 140 House Republicans planned to contest the election results during the electoral college certification that day.

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