Let me tell you something about the American Dream for military families: It comes bubble‑wrapped, labeled “fragile,” and shipped via a private contractor who will probably lose one of your boxes marked “sentimental items.”
Related: Yes, we’re still waiting on orders. No, we don’t have an update
The orders drop. You’ve got 60 days, two kids, one dog, and no idea what the rental market looks like in Fort Nowhere. A PCS isn’t just a move, it’s a budget killer in camouflage.
I’ve lived in 12 different domiciles over the last 20 years across five PCS duty stations.
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The U.S. Navy commissioned the 19th and final Independence-class littoral combat ship today. The USS Pierre officially entered service, at a time when the Navy is looking to scrap or repurpose littoral combat ships.
The Navy welcomed the Pierre into service with a ceremony in Panama City, Florida. Elected representatives and Navy officials, including Navy Secretary John Phelan, spoke at the event. Phelan called the commissioning of the USS Pierre a “critical step” in strengthening the Navy. Cmdr.
The M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) is chonky. It’s a nightmare to clean. It’s a reasonably heavy, demanding, ammo jam waiting to happen, that will cycle the one speck of dust you missed at 3 a.m. in a firefight. Soldiers have cursed it, kicked it, and thrown it in the dirt. However, they may have also been saved by its song. Because when it works, that unmistakable 800 rounds of poetry per minute is the single most comforting noise on the battlefield. It’s a true light machine gun. Now, its era is over.
Marines guarding the U.S. embassy in Haiti traded gunfire with “suspected” Haitian gang members this week, the Marine Corps said on Saturday,
The shootout, first reported by the Washington Post, happened on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 13. Marines who were “supporting embassy security operations were fired upon by suspected gang members in Port-au-Prince,” Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Steven Keenan said in a statement to Task & Purpose. The Marines then returned fire. No Marines were injured.
It’s almost commonplace for military members to get married young. Probably too young. But that wasn’t always the case. In fact, there were entire decades where Uncle Sam (and governments in other countries) actively discouraged his troops from getting married or having a family. These days, some of the methods the United States used would be illegal. But at the time, soldiers were highly incentivized to avoid matrimony, holy or otherwise.
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This report has two principal objectives: 1) inform the public, members of the US Congress (MOCs), and other federal officials about the poisoning* and subsequent murders of upwards of 40,000 American military veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic; and 2) cause MOCs and other federal officials to seriously investigate these alleged murders that occurred during the operation of a nationwide illegal criminal enterprise (explained herein) in violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1970.
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A front-page story in the Washington Times by Ben Wolfgang is headlined “Top Officers Lose Trust in Hegseth.
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