Rafael Peralta could not wait to become an American.
Originally from Mexico City, Peralta would do anything for his adopted homeland. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on the same day he received his green card in 2000 and was killed four years later while serving his country.
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Peralta’s actions on November 15, 2004, during the Second Battle of Fallujah in Iraq earned him the Navy Cross. For years, Peralta’s family refused to accept the Navy Cross.
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The Army originally planned to field the hypersonic weapon in 2023, but technical issues and flight test delays forced the service to push back its deadline.
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The FMTV A2 LVAD enables fast airdrop of supplies and equipment directly to remote or contested locations for Army missions.
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GA-ASI’s MQ-20 Avenger autonomously intercepted a piloted aircraft, tracked it, and executed a simulated kill while respecting airspace constraints safely.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense has reported a sharp increase in the Air Self Defense Force’s emergency fighter scrambles in December 2025, with 79 launches having been made to intercept foreign military aircraft approaching the country’s airspace. Fighters were scrambled only 33 times the previous month, with incidents in December representing 17.6 percent of the year’s total of 448. Chinese military aircraft accounted for 53 of the December scrambles, while Russian aircraft were responsible for 23.
Textron Systems has secured a $163.4m contract to supply 65 COMMANDO Select variant vehicles to Ukraine.
When I was in middle school, I ate lunch every day with the same group of boys. Most of us brought the same brown-bagged peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, faithfully made by our parents. One boy, however, regularly brought fluffernutter and banana sandwiches. Before long, curiosity turned into demand, and classmates began paying him fifty cents for the alternative. Our parents still packed peanut butter and jelly — but most went uneaten, discarded unopened into cafeteria trash cans.America’s depots are increasingly becoming the uneaten peanut butter and jelly.
Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few days in May 2025.On May 7–10, the two countries fought an 88-hour war after India accused Pakistan of orchestrating a gruesome terrorist attack in April that killed 26 civilians. This was one of the most significant conflicts between the two nuclear-armed rivals in decades. The war involved a series of unprecedented strikes on Pakistani territory, counter-air battles, aerial-drone duels, naval maneuvers, and disinformation campaigns.