Author: Michael

The annual Army-Navy football game is a hotly anticipated matchup between the Army Black Knights from the U.S. Military Academy and the Navy Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy. Each year, the two schools debut a special uniform that the players will wear for the rivalry event. In previous years, tribute has been paid to legendary Army units and historic Navy achievements. For the 2024 Army-Navy Game, the ranked and undefeated Black Knights will wear uniforms to commemorate the 101st Airborne Division’s “Rendezvous with Destiny” at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII.

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The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom signed a new agreement Monday that will see the three nations share each other’s testing facilities for hypersonic weapons.
Signed under Pillar 2 of the AUKUS trilateral security pact, the so-called Hypersonic Flight Test and Experimentation (HyFliTE) project arrangement includes plans to conduct at least six flight test campaigns by 2028, according to a news release from the Pentagon. A funding pool worth $252 million will be used to finance the efforts, the release noted.

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The new director of the Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is scheduled to meet with lawmakers in closed-door and open sessions Tuesday to discuss his organization’s activities investigating “unidentified anomalous phenomena” that have raised national security concerns.
The hearing with the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities comes on the heels of the release of the Pentagon’s fiscal 2024 consolidated annual report on UAP.

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President-elect Donald Trump is giving more and more hints that he is ready to use U.S. troops as part of his upcoming efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, initially posted on Truth Social on Nov 8: “GOOD NEWS: Reports are incoming that @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.

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Alaska black bears raided a supply room and a motor pool at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, leaving trails of MRE trash and climbing inside at least one Humvee in different incidents over the past month.
Perhaps unsurprisingly at JBER — which troops sometimes pronounce “J-Bear” — the bear raided at least on unit’s stash of cold weather Meals, Ready-to-Eat, or MREs leaving behind dozens of torn wrappers and packaging. About a week later, police and wildlife officials responded to a motor pool garage on base and found a bear inside a Humvee that was undergoing repairs.

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Authorizing Ukraine to use American munitions in Russia is one sign
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This article was drafted two years ago, published in a few outlets, and then on Substack at the end of October when Trump’s impending landslide victory was clear. With Biden authorizing Ukraine’s use of long-range American munitions in Russia, the path to expanded conflict gets wider, making the scenario described in this article more realistic.
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