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The Marine Corps is rebooting how it trains Reconnaissance Marines, with an overhaul of the program’s notoriously tough training curriculum.
Marines who wish to serve as part of a scout or reconnaissance team will no longer go to a 12-week Basic Recon Course, instead will need to complete two new courses: the Ground Reconnaissance Course and the Amphibious Reconnaissance Course. The first now serves as the initial part of the training curriculum, and its first class reported on Monday, April 27.
Weeks after A-10s helped save two downed aviators behind Iranian lines, the Warthog community capped off the month with a third rescue: a 73-year-old Florida man who fell off his boat.
The rescue came as two A-10s from the 74th Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia were training over the Avon Park, Florida bombing range and received a call from local authorities to deconflict nearby airspace as part of an ongoing search. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office was using patrol craft, helicopters and even drones to scour the nearly 4,000-acre Lake Arbuckle for a distressed boater.
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Eight major U.S. technology companies have signed formal agreements to deploy their frontier AI capabilities on the Defense Department’s classified networks “for lawful operational use,” according to a Pentagon press release published Friday.
DOD’s new deals with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle follow a major contract dispute between the department and Anthropic that culminated earlier this year over potential ethical constraints that accompany the use of AI in warfare and for national surveillance.
Insiders with access to U.S. military war plans may be placing many more bets on real-world operations than previously understood, a team of researchers said Thursday.
Researchers studying betting patterns on the Polymarket prediction site found that nearly 52% of “longshot” bets placed on recent U.S. military actions were correct and paid off handsomely to unknown bettors. Similar bets on “political” topics have about a 14% success rate on the site, the team said. That success rate, researchers say, suggests that insiders were behind at least some of the bets.
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President Donald Trump has tapped Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess to be the third person to lead the Space Force as chief of space operations, the service announced Friday.
Schiess currently serves as the Space Force’s deputy chief of operations — a position he has held since November. If confirmed by the Senate, he would receive his fourth star and succeed CSO Gen. Chance Saltzman as the Space Force’s highest-ranking officer.
“The Space Force has made tremendous progress in a short time, and our mission has never been more important,” Schiess said in a statement.
In a major break with tradition, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle has directed that the Navy ships that transport Marines into war zones be commanded by surface warfare officers instead of aviators.
The change applies to amphibious assault ships, transport docks, and dock landing ships, Caudle wrote in an April 24 memo that has been shared on Reddit. The Navy confirmed to Task & Purpose that the memo is authentic.
From Lt Col Asad “Genghis” Khan USMC about the responsibility of command for Marine Officers and NCO’s – You must be willing to die for your men because they are willing to die for you.
Into the Lion’s Den podcast with Commander Dan O’Shea airs Friday May 1st 2026 on AFP.
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