Author: Michael

More than 1,000 active-duty soldiers with the 101st and 82nd airborne divisions are on the ground and in the skies above North Carolina, working to help local National Guard units and emergency responders aid communities impacted by Hurricane Helene.
As of the weekend, more than 7,000 service members from the United States Army and the National Guard are active across the southeast.

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The Air Force is moving its planes out of MacDill Air Force Base once again, this time as the base braces for the approaching Tropical Storm Milton. 
On Saturday, the commander of the 6th Air Refueling Wing, based out of MacDill, announced that the wing will be relocating its aircraft starting on Oct. 6. The planes “will return when flying conditions are favorable.”
“I’ve decided to relocate our aircraft, beginning [Sunday], ahead of Tropical Storm Milton,” Col. Edward Szczepanik, commander of the 6th Air Refueling Wing said on a video posted to Facebook.

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Can you find these missing submarines? The Navy wants to know, and if you can, to recruit you. That’s the gist of the U.S. Navy’s latest recruitment effort, which isn’t through a conventional advertising campaign but through a series of puzzles and challenges on Reddit.
This month the Navy launched “Sub Reddit Hunt,” a new online scavenger hunt meant to “designed to attract the next generation of submariners.

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