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As a teenager from the Penobscot Indian Nation in Maine, Charles Norman Shay pulled drowning troops to shore on Omaha Beach, earning a Silver Star as a medic during World War II. In his final decade of life, he lived in a small Normandy town just miles from that shoreline, sharing his story with tourists and American troops who visited the hallowed beach. A statue of Shay now stands above the sands, part of a memorial to Native American soldiers who fought in the landings.
Shay, 101, died Wednesday in his home in Thue et Mue, France, just outside of Caen, about 30 miles from Omaha Beach.

…can we get past the brown fields, radiation, and Moonbatistans?

First of all, as we do, let’s go to the chart room to look at one of the most geographically perfect places on this planet to have shipyards and naval bases: San Francisco Bay.
As our nation faces again a challenge in the Pacific that necessitates an increased basing requirement on our West Coast, it is only natural we would look first at where nature provided us such a blessing.

Since the Trump administration’s Signalgate affair surfaced in March, the Pentagon’s Office of the Chief Information Officer has been working on modern instant-messaging options for personnel to securely communicate at various classification levels in compliance with U.S. policies and the law.
But public details on those efforts are sparse — and challenges remain, according to a top defense watchdog.

Four Army-developed surveillance and reconnaissance systems have been deployed to the southern border to support U.S. military activities there, according to the service’s capability program executive for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors.
The Trump administration earlier this year surged troops to the area to help U.S. government agencies stop border crossings and address other activities of concern.
“Obviously, real-world operations are occurring down there.

Pentagon, Washington, D.C. – I sat down with Under Secretary of the Navy for a few minutes yesterday in the Pentagon Press Briefing room.
OFFICIAL BIO: The Honorable Hung Cao was sworn in as Under Secretary of the Navy on October 3, 2025. He is the Department of Navy’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Management Officer overseeing nearly one million Navy, Marine Corps and civilian personnel and an annual budget exceeding $250 billion.

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***RussiaThe Russo-Ukrainian peace negotiation merry-go-round continues but ultimately will leave everyone back where they started.The latest flurry of activity began two weeks ago when Ukraine and Europe were blindsided by a 28-point peace proposal produced between U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian interlocutors.

More than 100 sailors were sleeping a few dozen yards from the point of impact where a merchant vessel slammed into the steel sides of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman on Feb. 12. Another group of eight sailors was on duty in a compartment just 10 feet from the impact, according to a Navy investigation released on Thursday.
Both groups survived unscathed, narrowly avoiding disaster.
“A small change in the timing of the collision or the angle of the impact could have caused catastrophic results,” Rear Adm. Todd E.

It’s a big deal whenever an aircraft carrier loses a plane during a deployment. In a six month span while deployed to the Red Sea this year, the USS Harry S. Truman lost three F/A-18 Super Hornets, including one that was accidentally shot down by another Navy ship in a friendly fire incident.
On Thursday, the Navy released investigations into the losses of each aircraft during the Truman’s deployment from September 2024 to June 2025 that revealed a variety of errors and poor decisions that led to the incidents. 
Also Thursday, the Navy released a separate investigation into the Feb.

Editor’s Note: Of course, our question is here at AFP – why are these drones needed in the Middle East? Are we entering a new conflict?

The U.S. military has fielded its first squadron of one-way attack drones to the Middle East under Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS), according to United States Central Command (CENTCOM).
The unit operates Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones, derived from Shahed models used by Tehran and Moscow. The U.S.

It’s no coincidence that decorated military pilot and former Defense Department executive and legislative liaison Mike Madsen is joining Obviant as the data intelligence startup’s first vice president for national security at a time when the government is moving to modernize the services’ approach to buying weapons and technology. 
“There’s a humongous appetite for acquisition reform,” Madsen told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Tuesday. “So, the time is right with this disruptive mindset right now to improve things and to digitize things.