Well, if that wasn’t the most clickbaity title of all time, we’re not sure what is, but it says more about you than us since you opened this article! Either way, we’re glad you’re here to see Navy’s newest 2024 Spirit Spot, as directed by the one and only Rylan Tuohy. So what differentiates this Spirit Spot from other Tuohy classics like, “We Give a Ship” and “Naptown Funk?” He crowdfunded the production. That’s right, Tuohy took to the interwebs to raise money to fund the making of this Spirit Spot.
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U.S. troops who have taken part in operations to counter Houthi rebels in Yemen have been authorized to receive the Global War on Terrorism Service and Expeditionary Medals, Pentagon spokesman Joshua Wick told Task & Purpose on Friday.
The medals have been authorized since last summer, when U.S. Navy aircraft and ships were in near-constant combat in the region, both striking Houthi land-based targets and shooting down drones and rockets fired by the rebels towards ships transiting the Red Sea. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Ronald T.
The Department of the Navy is issuing a request for solutions from industry to bring forth technologies that could better connect the U.S. military’s next-generation drones known as collaborative combat aircraft (CCA), according to an announcement posted Friday.
The RFS is being issued via the Expeditionary Missions Consortium-Crane (EMC2), and vendors must be members of the organization to respond.
Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** Over the past year, publications like the New York Times have faced an unrelenting stream of criticism for their Middle East coverage.
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office announced on 21 November that it had initiated an investigation into European defence firm Thales.
Mil Spec Type III 550 lbs. Paracord, better known as 550 cord, can strike any veteran’s nostalgic heartstrings, especially if they had a habit of leaving their gear around.
The cord is a dynamic rope made up of a nylon sheath with twisted nylon cords inside. Its name derives from its engineering specifications, known as MIL-C-5040 cord, which require most grades of it to have a breaking strength of 550 pounds, though some high-spec versions are rated to 750.
Happy Friday! Every time I walk into my local Starbucks, a barista I know asks me if World War III has started. It’s a reasonable question considering Ukraine claims Russia fired a non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters on Thursday that Russia had fired an “experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile” based on Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh ICBM, and Russian authorities notified the United States briefly before the launch through nuclear risk reduction channels.
Senop, a subsidiary of Millog and part of Patria, has secured an order from Saab for the delivery of its AFCD TI smart sight.
NZFD has finalised a contract with UROVESA for 60 new VAMTAC ST5 light and CK3 medium-sized unarmoured utility vehicles.
Returning fire two days after Army announced their 101st Airborne at Bastogne uniform, Navy Football dropped their uniform for the 2024 Army-Navy Game. On December 14, the Navy Midshipmen will raise the Skull and Crossbones and take the field honoring the Jolly Rogers. Fittingly, the squadron’s callsign is Victory and their tagline is “Fear the Bones.”
Navy Ace Ira C. Kepford scored 16 confirmed kills with VF-17 in the F4U Corsair (U.S. Navy)
The Skull and Crossbones has been used by different squadrons on different aircraft over the decades.