Author: Michael

Sailors on the USS Gerald R. Ford have already been away from home for more than eight months and are now headed for yet another unanticipated stop, this time on the Greek island of Crete, following a fire on the ship, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Ford left Norfolk, Virginia, last June, and its crew has seen combat in two hemispheres during a deployment that could soon be among the longest in the Navy since the Vietnam War.

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As part of a broader effort across the Pentagon to improve procurement, the Space Force has finalized the nine specific mission areas that will guide its new organizations known as portfolio acquisition executives (PAEs), according to the service.
The Space Force announced Tuesday that it has officially established four more PAEs — a new organizational framework spearheaded by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s large-scale acquisition overhaul.

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The White House registered two new government domains this week: alien.gov and aliens.gov, according to publicly available federal records.
Their appearance comes about one month after President Donald Trump announced plans to direct the long-anticipated release of U.S. government records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and extraterrestrial beings.
Those new domains were not connected to websites as of Wednesday morning.

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L Todd Wood talks with former SEAL and Naval Academy graduate CMDR Dan O’Shea (USN, Ret) about a possible seizure of Iranian Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
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Military families shipping their household goods and cars to new assignments are seeing delays brought on by the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, Pentagon officials say.
A March 10 memo issued by the Defense Department’s Personal Property Activity, or PPA, warned that “the operation in the Middle East is causing severe, widespread, and rapidly evolving disruptions to air and sea shipments. Airport closures, suspensions of port operations, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and significant security risks are preventing vessel and airline ability to safely transit the area.

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In 2024, Thanassis Cambanis wrote, “Leave Syria, Keep Fighting the Islamic State,” where he argued the United States should withdraw from Syria, but continue to invest in counter-terrorism measures to combat the Islamic State. Two years later, after an American withdrawal from Syria and a new Syrian government in power, we asked Thanassis to revisit his article.Image: Photo by Staff Sgt.

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