There comes a time in every field op when things change so much that all one can do is laugh hysterically at nothing with your battle buddies. Some of my most memorable moments when I was enlisted in the Marine Corps was when stuff just went completely wrong and we didn’t even have anything to shoot at. There was no way to blow off steam and everything at that one point went so out of our control we would just repeat how badly things were and damn near wet ourselves.
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The Leopard 2 tank has an incredibly stable gun and will add a very strong punch to the Ukrainian military’s capability.
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U.S. Army General Michael Kurilla warned that U.S. forces could carry out additional strikes if needed.
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In the early hours of Thursday morning, the Chinese military said that it drove away a U.S. guided missile destroyer that had “illegally” enter Chinese-claimed waters in the South China Sea.
According to the Southern Theatre Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the USS Milius entered waters near the disputed Paracel Islands before being warned by the PLA and allegedly driven away by the Chinese military. The U.S.
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, supporting Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, conduct a M777 Howitzer night operational rehearsal exercise in eastern Syria, Jan. 01, 2023. (U.S. Army National Guard photo courtesy of Spc. Benjamin Tierney).
An unmanned aerial vehicle struck a coalition military base in Syria on Thursday, killing one person and injuring six others.
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Tensions between the U.S. and Iranian-backed militias in Syria have ratcheted up in the past 24 hours.
Iranian-backed militia members fired missiles at a U.S. base in Syria, according to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR), an independent and impartial UK-based human rights organization. That was an apparent response to a strike by two U.S. Air Force F-15E multirole fighters on facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Thursday. That strike was in retaliation for a deadly drone strike on a U.S.
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepts an U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea on March 14, 2023. (U.S. Air Force).
Editor’s note: this article by Alex Hollings first appeared on Sandboxx.
Last Tuesday, a pair of Russian Su-27 fighters intercepted an American MQ-9 Reaper drone operating over international waters in the Black Sea. In the days that followed, various competing narratives emerged. Russia has contended that the U.S.