Author: Michael

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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American troops stationed in Japan can no longer drink at off-base establishments late at night, the head of U.S. forces in Japan ordered.
The new order updates liberty hours for troops, barring them from going to any “drinking establishment” between the hours of 1 a.m.-5 a.m.  The order, announced in September, went into effect on the first of the month. It applies to all American troops, regardless of branch, rank or age. It comes following internal review by leadership after several American service members were accused of sexual assault this year.

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