The Marine Corps is overhauling how it trains its reconnaissance troops as ubiquitous surveillance tools redefine modern conflict and service officials wrestle with difficult questions over sensor and robotic employment for new training.
Two new courses replaced the Basic Reconnaissance Course, a 12-week program known for its grueling nature in a move service officials said was meant to modernize training, reduce wait times for advanced schools and strengthen baseline infantry skills to meet fleet demands.
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The Pentagon plans to install laser and microwave weapon systems at five bases in the United States by year’s end, to defend the important installations from aerial drones.
On Thursday the military’s task force overseeing drone policy announced that five bases will be participating in the directed-energy counter-unmanned aircraft systems pilot program. They are Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri and Naval Base Kitsap, Washington.
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The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force announced a new pilot program this week aimed at fielding directed energy systems for UAS defense to five military installations across the country over the next six months.
Joint Interagency Task Force 401, an Army-led entity charged with boosting the military’s counter-drone efforts, said the initiative is intended to protect infrastructure, military installations and domestic missions against unmanned aerial systems.
The Defense Department publicly released more than 150 new files on Friday, about phenomena formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, including several reports from NASA astronauts who reported seeing unidentified objects in space and on the moon.
A total of 162 documents, which range from 1942 to 2025 and include audio clips and photographs, were posted on a new Department of Defense website.
The Pentagon’s inspector general recently met with the Justice Department’s first-ever assistant attorney general for the national fraud enforcement division to explore opportunities for their teams to cooperate more closely on efforts to confront increasingly complex scams impacting the Defense Department and military.
According to a press release, “the discussion centered on potential joint initiatives that could further align investigative and prosecutorial priorities.
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Detection systems on Joint Base Andrews failed repeatedly between January and March as jet fuel spilled into a local creek that eventually flows into the environmentally sensitive Chesapeake Bay.
Air Force personnel didn’t report the problem to the state until an odor and fuel sheen appeared near the headwaters of Piscataway Creek on March 23, Maryland authorities said.
It took about two more weeks before base officials reported the full extent of the 32,000-gallon spill, the state said.