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Marine Sgt. Jason Frink was shown in a video getting into a physical altercation with hotel staff in San Diego. (Screenshot).

Marine Corps officials said they are looking into an incident caught on video in which a Marine can be seen shoving a hotel clerk and getting into a fight with a security guard in San Diego.
“We can confirm the Marine in the video is Sergeant Jason Frink, stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA,” said 1st Lt. Arthur Deal, a spokesman for I Marine Expeditionary Force. “The Marine Corps is still actively investigating the incident.

The U.S. and Japan have formally committed to collaboratively advancing specific emerging technologies for military use and linking their defense industrial bases as global supply chains remain strapped.
During a meeting at the Pentagon last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japan’s Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada signed two bilateral arrangements aimed at driving that new cooperation between their nations in the near term.
Via a new legally-binding Memorandum of Understanding for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Projects (MOU for RDT&E), Japan and the U.S.

The heavy losses that both sides are suffering on the ground in Ukraine are forcing innovation.
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The United States Marine Corps’ (USMC) F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is getting out of its comfort zone, as leaders look to short stretches of roads and other potential improvised operating areas to prove the first stealthy Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) fighter’s ability to fight from austere, remote, and hastily established locales. Such capabilities could prove to be absolutely essential in a high-end conflict in the Indo-Pacific, namely against China.

Michael Vallely, left and Daniel Wondering, assigned to Fleet Readiness Center Southwest, shave titanium grommets on the engine bay door of an F/-18E Super Hornet aircraft attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77), Dec. 16, 2022. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sasha Ambrose/U.S. Navy).

The Navy completed repairs to a F/A-18E Super Hornet jet last week that the service described as the “first of its kind.

From the state that keeps getting neglected to Congressional controversies, there are 7 weird facts about the names of the Navy’s ships.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has moved into the next phase of its Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors program, or CRANE. The project is centered on an experimental uncrewed aircraft, which Aurora Flight Sciences is developing, that does not have traditional moving surfaces to control the aircraft in flight.
Aurora Flight Sciences’ CRANE design, which does not yet have an official X-plane designation or nickname, instead uses an active flow control (AFC) system to maneuver the aircraft using bursts of highly pressurized air.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, to lead an investigation into what led to the crash of an Airbus H225M helicopter that killed everyone onboard, including the nation’s Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky, earlier today. More than a dozen other people, including children, on the ground also died. The SBU has said it cannot yet rule out the possibility that sabotage, pilot error, or a technical malfunction was the cause.

Gen. Mark Milley
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley visited a military base in Germany on Monday to inspect the expanded U.S. training of Ukrainian forces.
Milley arrived at the base for the second day of training on a visit that sends a strong message to Moscow that the U.S. will not back down in its support of Ukraine in its war with Russia.
American advisors are training 600 Ukrainian troops on armored vehicles, tanks, a variety of weapons, and combat techniques.

The U.S. exposed and arrested Ana Montes, known as the “Queen of Cuba” with the help of her sister who was an FBI agent.
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