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GEN Brown Cares More for Promotion and Pay for Generals Than About the Country
At confirmation hearings this past week to possibly become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, GEN Charles Brown warned Republicans to not hold up promotion lists because “We will lose talent.”[i] He provided little discussion regarding the issues for delaying the promotion list.
Commissioned in 1984 as an F-16 pilot with over 3,000 flying hours, many in combat, Brown rose through the ranks of the Air Force. By all accounts, he had a very successful career…to a point.

Despite the fact that Australia has more than 40 F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters that have already been retired, there are some obvious difficulties in transferring them. The Australian Minister of Defense, Richard Marles, said in an interview given to ABC Radio National that the transfer of these planes is a “complex issue.” He confirmed that negotiations on fighter jets are ongoing, “but it is a much more complicated process than other forms of military support.”

Thus, by mid-July, the transfer of F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters had not gone beyond the discussion stage.

Officials in the Naval Oceanography enterprise (NOe) spent the last nearly two years crafting and refining an original data strategy that sets their unique organization’s overarching guiding principles, essential capabilities, goals and objectives to ultimately enable secure and seamless access to U.S. meteorological, oceanographic, position, time and astrometry data.
NOe components include the Oceanographer of the Navy, the operational commander Naval Meteorology Oceanography and Meteorology Command, and subordinate Echelon IV and V commands.

An unmanned aerial system from U.S. Air Forces Central’s newly formed Task Force 99 was deployed to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions against a U.S. adversary in the Middle East — and its performance was “very effective,” according to a senior Department of Defense official.
The task force was stood up in October at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, as the Pentagon looks for new ways to operationally evaluate robotic platforms and supporting technologies.

Italy plans to buy German-made Leopard 2 main battle tanks to bolster its ground forces following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an undersecretary for defense told parliament on Thursday.
Isabella Rauti, a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, told the Lower House Defense committee that Rome needed a “significant upgrade” of its ground forces and that the purchase of the Leopard 2 tanks was part of the strategy to improve the country’s army significantly.

Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Chris Guillory, explosive ordnance disposal technician, looks over an unexploded ordnance on Browns Island, North Carolina, June 27, 2022. Browns Island is off limits to all visitors though civilians pass by it on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Collette Hagen.

When summertime boaters come to the North Carolina coast, they hope to find a spot that looks just like Browns Island: a rugged barrier island with white sand beaches unspoiled by even a single footprint.

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The Federal Aviation Administration received pilot reports about a floating glowing white cylinder, a fast-flying white diamond-shaped object, a 25-foot-long black triangular drone, and someone zooming around using a jetpack in just one week in June 2021. This is according to logs from the U.S. Domestic Events Network, or DEN, that The War Zone recently obtained. Taken in all, the hundreds of ‘DEN line’ log entries provide a fascinating and somewhat unprecedented look into what a week of this network’s activity actually looks like.

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In 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court reached a unanimous decision in several consolidated cases, “declaring the fundamental principle that racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional . . .”  (Brown v. Bd. of Educ., 347 U.S. 483 (1954); and Brown v. Bd. of Educ., 349 U.S. 294, 298 (1955) (“Brown II”)).

The Defense Department is integrating multiple generative AI models into its series of global exercises that are intended to test out capabilities that could support the U.S. military’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control warfighting construct, according to a senior official.
The latest iteration of the so-called Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) is being led by the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office in partnership with the Joint Staff.

A Russian general commanding force fighting in southern Ukraine has been relieved of his duties after speaking out about the problems his troops are facing. This move reflects new fissures in military command after a brief rebellion by the chief From the mercenaries Yevgeny Prigozhin.