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The Pentagon’s task force focused on defeating unmanned aerial systems announced Tuesday that its hub for military personnel to buy anti-drone technology reached initial launch.
The Defense Department billed the “Counter-UAS Marketplace” as an online platform where its personnel can purchase mission-specific anti-drone tech from a “growing catalog” of more than 1,600 items while avoiding “the lengthy contracting process typically associated with defense procurement.

Douglas Hegdahl walked freely around the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison camp, one of many American prisoners of war held there in 1967.
He was sweeping the courtyards during the prison guards’ afternoon “siesta.” The guards called the American sailor who fell into their laps “The Incredibly Stupid One.” They believed he could neither read nor write and could barely even see. But the “stupid” Seaman Apprentice Hegdahl was slowly collecting intelligence, gathering prisoner data, and even sabotaging the enemy.

Key Points and Summary: Gordon Gray, the Kuwait Professor at George Washington University, examines the strategic voids in the Board of Peace (BoP) following its February 19 inaugural meeting.

-While UN Security Council Resolution 2803 authorized the International Stabilization Force (ISF), spearheaded by Major General Jasper Jeffers, significant friction remains regarding the disarmament of Hamas.

Starmer is reportedly considering putting more strength behind his vision for the UK as a nation that puts “NATO First”.

After the Japanese captured U.S. Army Pvt. Joseph “Jose” Quintero in 1942, he began plotting his revenge.
Being imprisoned was bad enough. His mind filled with memories of Japanese bombers destroying American flag poles during World War II, Quintero devised a form of payback.
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Along with the help of another prisoner of war in their camp in Niigata, Japan, Quintero secretly began making his own flag. They would have been tortured or possibly killed if either one was discovered.
The Japanese guards, though, never caught on.

Six pilots and crew from a New York National Guard helicopter unit made a pair of flights into an active firefight in 2023 to rescue a team of French special forces soldiers who had been ambushed by Islamic State fighters. The mission received almost no public attention in the U.S until last weekend, when all six received valor awards from the French army.
The six guardsmen received the French National Defense Gold Medal, an award roughly equivalent to the U.S. military’s Bronze Star Medal with a “V” device for valor.

Many American men were trying to avoid serving the U.S. military in the 1960s and 1970s, but at least one American man was trying anything to get in—and it wasn’t Steve Rogers.
Captain Richard Flaherty had to get a waiver to join the Army during the Vietnam War. He wasn’t flat-footed, he had no debilitating conditions, and he was an otherwise perfectly healthy young man. His only problem was that he stood four feet, nine inches tall.

World War II history is filled with an unending list of famous names, many of whom are the generals and flag officers who planned and led the war to its now well-known conclusion. High-ranking military officers like George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and William “Bull” Halsey went from dominating the headlines to dominating the history books forever. 
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But everyone has to answer to someone, and as far as U.S. military personnel were concerned, even the Supreme Allied Commander had a boss.

BAE Systems has received a contract valued at over $500m to supply more M109A7 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers to the US Army.

During his State of the Union address, President Trump recognized Army Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover with the Congressional Medal of Honor. Slover was injured in the raid to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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