Author: Michael

A sailor assigned to a nuclear submarine scaled the wall of a burning building to save an entrapped woman Tuesday, an act caught on video.
Nuclear Technician Petty Officer 1st Class Gabriel Nagy-Journey, a sailor assigned to the USS Albany in Norfolk, was driving home from work when he heard a woman screaming about a fire in the nearby apartment building in Norfolk, Virginia. 
He joined a group standing next to the burning apartment building, just beneath where an elderly woman was leaning out of a second-story window, with smoke billowing out.

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A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** This weekend, Russia signed into law a strategic partnership agreement with North Korea that includes a mutual defense provision and strengthens security ties between the two countries.

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As insiders hustle to realize high-stakes efforts to accelerate the military’s adoption of advanced uncrewed capabilities — including Replicator — the Pentagon is increasingly buying integrated software enablers to equip such systems with the capacity to link up and work together autonomously.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks shed new light on this work in a press release Wednesday.

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Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has nominated to serve as defense secretary, is a Fox News host who served in the National Guard and who has been a vocal critic of women in combat roles, diversity and inclusion efforts in the military, and other policies that he’s decried as “woke s—t.”
Currently a Fox News host, Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard in 2003, ultimately becoming a major.

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The Army’s newest legal arm is using a “reach back” authority to prosecute old cases of serious crimes that may have escaped prosecution. 
Since opening its doors in December, the Army’s Office of Special Trial Counsel has reopened more than 100 older cases, which has included recalling retired service members to active duty to face charges they may have once believed they’d escaped.
The new office launched in December 2023 to answer the long-standing complaint from justice advocates that the military justice system often left legal decision-making to unit commanders.

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On the heels of a suspiciously timed International Bird Flu Summit in DC, and following reports of new cases of bird flu in humans here in the U.S., we get word that the French government is sounding the alarm on the spread of bird flu.
According to Reuters:
France has raised its risk level of bird flu to ‘moderate’ from ‘negligible’, it said in a decree published in the official journal on Tuesday, a move that will reinforce security measures around poultry farms.

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