Private First Class Lewis Albanese was a member of the United States Army, who received a posthumous Purple Heart and the prestigious Medal of Honor for his courageous service during the Vietnam War.
PFC Lewis Albanese Background
Born in Vincenza, Italy in 1946, Albanese’s family immigrated to Washington State when he was a child. He spent his young adult years in the Seattle metropolitan area and worked at Boeing Aircraft Company. But in 1965, Albanese felt a calling to serve his country, and he enlisted in the Army. He completed BCT at Fort Carson, Colorado.
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The latest episode of The Mandalorian has sealed the series’ tone as one that harkens to child-like Star Wars, as opposed to the grounded and mature Andor. Looking back, the clues have always been there, starting with a child as the protagonist. New whimsical characters were introduced and old wounds healed with a nice tidy bow. I’m not particularly mad about it. Let’s jump in.
Spoilers ahead.
The episode begins with Bo-Katan Kryze’s previous comrades, Mandalorians now led by Axe Woves (Simon Kassianides) who have been hired to defend a free planet called Plazir-15.
Defense leaders in testimony before Congress revealed deep concern about the U.S. ability to sustain a contest with China.
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In a whirlwind of hearings in March, Pentagon leaders revealed how much the Ukraine war has cut into American munitions stockpiles.
Massive rates of ammunition consumption from the war have caused the Pentagon to reevaluate needs for a potential China contingency.
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A Taiwanese Mirage 2000 fighter jet lands at an air force base in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on 9 April 2023 as China was conducting a second day of military drills near the country. (Jameson Wu/AFP via Getty Images)
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed several aircraft and vessels either near or across the median line in the Taiwan Strait in the wake of a meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California.
An F-35C Lightning II test aircraft conducts the first separation of an AGM-154C variant Joint Standoff Weapon from an F-35. (US Navy)
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) in conjunction with prime contractor Lockheed Martin is exploring methods to accelerate the process of certifying and integrating new weapons and systems into the advanced jet fighter.
JPO officials are weighing alternatives, from modernising current weapon test plans to issuing rapidly integrated clearances or interim clearances for weapon systems, to dramatically ramp up weapons integration into F-35.
Conspiracy theories, by their very nature, are not easily debunked. It is hard to prove definitively that something did not happen. Conspiracies involving politics can be especially murky. Rough-and-tumble presidential campaigns often do feature dirty tricks for electoral advantage, but false accusations of such skullduggery are arguably even more routine. Which, then, is the case […]
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When an AI fighter pilot beat an experienced human pilot 15-0 in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight competition, it didn’t just fly better than the human. It fought differently. Heron Systems’ AI agent used forward-quarter gunshots, when the two aircraft were racing toward each other head-to-head, a shot that’s banned in pilot training […]
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A computer-generated image of Sikorsky-Boeing’s Defiant X. (Sikorsky-Boeing)
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied a Sikorsky-Boeing team’s protest to overturn the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) decision, which awarded to Bell Helicopter a USD7.1 billion contract to replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk as the service’s mainstay helicopter.
Russian forces press hard on Bakhmut, trying to capture the city. On the 408th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces made some progress in and around Bakhmut. The Ukrainian army is reinforcing the area in an attempt to prevent the takeover of the city.
The Battle of Bakhmut rages.
For over seven months, Russian forces have been attempting to take Bakhmut. They’ve made it into the city and are threatening to encircle the Ukrainian military by moving south and north.