Author: Michael

“Hurry up and wait.”
We’ve all heard this phrase at one point or another, but at this exact moment in time, it really (and literally) hits home. A partial government shutdown is currently affecting thousands of U.S. Coast Guard service members and their families. 
In February 2026, Congress and the president failed to meet a deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid concerns that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers needed to be reined in after fatally shooting two American citizens in Minneapolis.

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The Army recently awarded a contract to AeroVironment for the company’s new long-range, one-way attack drone called Red Dragon, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The deal, valued at more than $17 million, was awarded March 12 with an estimated completion date of April 8. It includes funding for unmanned aerial systems, battery chargers, ground control stations, launchers, critical part kit materials, training materials, and field service representative support, per the announcement.

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Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, during which 5,931 Marines were killed — twice as many as all the Marines who died during World War I — including Medal of Honor recipient Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone. 
So it is somewhat surprising that a prominent lawmaker would reference Iwo Jima while arguing in favor of a U.S. military operation to capture Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf as part of ongoing operations against Iran. Yet that’s precisely what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) did over the weekend when he said on Fox News Sunday, “We did Iwo Jima. We can do this.

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For most of the last century, if something hostile was flying at your face, options boiled down to this: hope somebody around has a big gun. A Stinger team. A Patriot battery. An F-16 somewhere overhead doing F-16 things. The grunt on the ground pointed their tiny weapon up, got that potential threat in their sights, and proudly said out loud, “pew, pew.”
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Drones have officially broken that arrangement.

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