Author: Michael

Ukrainian Air Force officers have developed an entirely new clean sheet set of tactics to operate F-16 fighter aircraft in the country’s ongoing war effort against Russia. Highlighting the necessity of this, F-16 pilots and other officers have recently criticised the air combat tactics taught by NATO members as “unsuitable” for engagements with Russian forces, particularly singling out their limited suitability to operate in a theatre where Russia fields a particularly dense and capable ground-based air defence network.

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An official revision to Air Force uniform policy announced Friday allows some airmen to wear uniforms with visible “DIRT,” others to show their “AGE” and some to literally be on “FIRE.”
Duty identifier patches are back.
“I’ve decided to bring duty identifier patches back because the Air Force is made up of many different specialties, each with a unique role in our mission to generate airpower,” said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach. “We are a unified force working together to win.

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Federal immigration agents boarded a cruise ship docked in Miami and detained a Coast Guard veteran earlier this week in what the veteran and his wife say was a case of mistaken identity.
Jose “Joey” Martinez and his wife, Tammy Verhas, were “dead asleep” in their room when federal agents dressed in all black burst into their room at around 6:30 a.m., the veteran recalled. It was about two hours before the Carnival Cruise Line guests were scheduled to disembark from the ship and go through customs in Miami, Florida.

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The National Security Agency on Friday announced Tim Kosiba as its deputy director, nine months after the Trump administration axed his predecessor — reportedly at the behest of a far-right activist.
Kosiba, a veteran of the NSA with a 33-year career in federal government, according to a press release, was previously deputy commander of the cyberespionage agency’s largest field office, which is located in Georgia. He was also the deputy director of the agency’s Commercial Solutions Center, among other cyber roles in the FBI and Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

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