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The Army recently established an artificial intelligence career field that select officers can transfer into starting next month, DefenseScoop has learned. It is also considering the potential for warrant officers to join the new role.
The service created the 49B “area of concentration” for AI and Machine Learning on Oct. 31, according to Maj. Travis Shaw, a spokesperson for the Army. Between Jan. 5 and Feb.

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The Black Seminole Indian Scouts stand among the most skilled and effective irregular fighting forces ever to serve in the United States Army. Operating between 1870 and 1914, they inherited a legacy forged through centuries of resistance, migration, cultural fusion, and frontier survival. Their abilities in tracking, reconnaissance, border security, and small-unit tactics made them indispensable to the Army during the final decades of the Indian Wars.

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Maria Levi did not carry a rifle. She carried pasta. After an Allied prisoner of war escaped from an Italian camp in September 1943, Levi waded barefoot across a river with a pot balanced on her head to feed him. It sounds like a fable until you remember what it really was: supply and sustainment, delivered by a civilian, in occupied territory, to a man the Germans would happily shoot. She was one of the thousands of Italian women who did their part to win World War II.
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Italy’s armistice on Sept.

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Marines, civilians and members of industry interested in attending the U.S. Marine Corps’ AI “workshop” at Quantico should mark their calendars for March 9-12, 2026, according to a new MARADMIN message released Monday.
The gathering was originally scheduled to take place last month, but it was postponed due to a lapse in appropriations associated with the federal government shutdown.
The Marine Corps’ service data officer is organizing the event, which will focus specifically on generative AI and agentic AI.
The term “agentic AI” has been added to the name of the event.

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