Author: Michael

The Pentagon and Office of Personnel Management announced a recruiting effort Tuesday that officials are calling “War Force.”
The initiative doesn’t seek to hire trigger-pullers but rather AI experts and other software engineers that could “embed down to the unit level across the department” to support operational needs and “ensure a more lethal United States military,” according to an OPM press release.

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On Sept. 16, 1620 the Mayflower left Plymouth, England bound for the new world, bound for the northern Virginia colony. They never made it—not to Virginia, anyway. Trouble with the ships, stormy seas, and some unexpected course corrections delayed their arrival to America and when they finally saw their new continent, the most disturbing trouble of all happened: they were low on beer.
The ship’s commander, Capt. Christopher Jones, made an executive decision: the Pilgrims would be departing a little sooner than they expected so there would be more beer for the crew.

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Oil is closing out its weakest quarter in five years on Tuesday, with Brent crude down roughly 30 percent over the three months and off about 20 percent in June alone, the steepest quarterly fall since the pandemic crash of 2020. The slide has carried both major benchmarks back to where they traded just before the United States and Israel began striking Iran on February 28. West Texas Intermediate sat near $70.75 a barrel and Brent near $73.22, a remarkable round trip for a market that watched prices climb above $120 at the height of the war.

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China’s YY-20 Tanker Increasing The Range Of Its Fighters: China released a military video promoting its newest sixth-generation stealth fighter as it is refueled mid-air by the YY-20 aerial refueling tanker.

This air-refueling capability was one that the PLAAF didn’t possess until this decade, but it is rapidly gaining expertise and experience.

J-36 Fighter in the Sky. Image Credit: X Post.

The YY-20, with a capacity of 90 tons of fuel, enables the Chinese to conduct force projection with their land-based fighters to ranges that were unreachable just a few short years ago.

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An old friend pinned a Special Forces tab onto Terry McIntosh’s blue blazer earlier this month during an impromptu celebration at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The tab was a gift from Al Kittredge, a retired Special Forces officer, who presented it to McIntosh to mark the Army’s decision to formally acknowledge McIntosh’s status as an 18-year-old Special Forces soldier in 1968.

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