Author: Michael

The U.S. military command that oversees forces across Africa will establish a “drone academy” and training center in Morocco to begin getting African partners up to date with their use in counterterrorism, officials announced.
U.S. Africa Command officials signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday with the leaders from the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces to establish the Africa Multidomain Training and Experimentation Center in Tan-Tan, Morocco, by 2030, officials said in a release.

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Zelensky is Seeking 300 Patriot Missiles for Ukraine Defense: In war, history shows that getting through the winter is especially crucial.

It might only be mid-July, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seeking a specific number of missiles to get through next winter.

Exercise Artemis Strike is a German-led tactical live fire exercise with live Patriot and Stinger missiles at the NATO Missile Firing Installation in Chania, Greece from Oct. 31-Nov. 09. Over 200 U.S.

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Despite months of military operations, economic pressure, and diplomacy, restoring commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has proven far more difficult than many expected. The waterway, one of the world’s most strategic, carries roughly 20 percent of global oil exports under normal conditions. But securing the strait has proven an extraordinarily difficult military challenge thanks to geography, Iran’s asymmetric capabilities, and the sheer scale of the operating environment.

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Okay, so if you’ve been seeing summer blockbusters and/or you’re into movie trailers, then you probably saw the teaser trailer for Tom Cruise’s upcoming film “Digger.” The teaser for the “comedy of catastrophic proportions” began with two minutes and 26 seconds of a Tom Cruise demo reel. 
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The teaser-trailer also starts with a list of his IMDb credits.
This is a screengrab from the trailer. What is happening, am I right?? (Warner Bros.

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George Milton Neal joined the Navy at 17 and by 1951 was one of the only Black sailors in the service assigned to fly on search and rescue helicopters. When a Marine pilot was downed deep in North Korean mountains, he volunteered for the mission to rescue the aviator and then helped his crew evade capture for nine days after Neal’s helicopter was also shot down.
On Saturday, the Navy christened a future destroyer named for Neal, who was later awarded the Navy Cross for the mission, in which he and the two pilots eluded the enemy for nine days after crashing.
The helicopter’s pilot, Lt.

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Last week, the Ukrainian Air Force (PSU) confirmed that it shot down a Russian Su-35 multirole fighter jet that was on combat patrol on the eastern front.

“​​Today, another Russian air terrorist was eliminated,” the PSU announced in a post on Telegram.

An F-16 Fighting Falcon, assigned to the 180th Fighter Wing, flies alongside a KC-135 Stratotanker with the 121st Air Refueling Wing over the skies of Canada, May 20, 2026. The F-16 Fighting Falcon can fly more than 500 miles, but the KC-135 can extend its radius beyond that and deliver airpower anywhere, anytime, globally. (U.S.

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Working at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is more than another government job. Veterans spent years dedicated protecting the American homeland. Working at the USPTO is directly protecting individual Americans by helping them defend their innovations. Since all we ever really have is what our minds can conceive, working for the agency that protects our ideas might be the most important job in government.
All that and you get paid, too.

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