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An airman who set himself on fire two years ago in Washington, D.C. to protest Israeli military actions in Gaza did so with a clear head, and not because of a mental health crisis, his wing commander said in newly obtained documents.
With that determination, the senior leader overturned an Air Force investigating officer’s conclusion that Aaron Bushnell’s final act was brought on by psychiatric problems.
Instead, the commander wrote, Bushnell’s death was due to his own “misconduct” and “Not In the Line of Duty,” a rare reversal of an investigating officer’s findings.

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In 2016, Ben Friedman wrote, “The Trump Administration Will be Hawkish,” where he argued that despite Trump’s non-interventionist campaign rhetoric, structural forces, hawkish appointees, and an entrenched foreign policy bureaucracy would push him closer toward conventional military interventionism. Ten years later, we asked Ben to revisit his arguments.Image: Max Goldberg via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2016 article, you argued the Trump administration would adopt a hawkish foreign policy, namely towards Russia, China, and Iran.

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Just as all Marines are riflemen, they must now also be proficient in a new battlefield technology: Artificial intelligence, or AI.
All Marines have until Dec. 31 to complete a roughly 45-minute online course about the basics of AI, according to a recent Marine Administrative Message, or MARADMIN. Civilians working for the Marine Corps are also “highly encouraged” to take the course, the message says.
“Designed for Marines of all ranks and occupational specialties, the course emphasizes AI awareness and practical application rather than technical expertise,” said Maj.

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“It must not be killed or shot at except in an emergency arising out of self-defense.”
That was one of the U.S. State Department’s cardinal rules for American fortune seekers, proto-cryptozoologists, and/or adventurers who were making the trek into the Himalayas and hoped to encounter the Abominable Snowman—also known as the Yeti. 
Also Read: Some US troops reportedly saw Bigfoot in Vietnam
The Yeti, like its legendary North American relative Bigfoot, is a mythical ape-like creature that many have claimed is real.

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