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The Navy’s new Virginia-class submarines are projected to run $17 billion over their planned budget through 2030, a problem emblematic of a crisis in the program, the House’s top…

Rebecca Burgess, Law & Liberty
Like Ulysses, returned combat veterans often show a diminished capacity for social trust.

Tommy Cash, younger brother of the famous Johnny Cash, passed away at 84. They were both two of seven children in the Cash family. Tommy and Johnny shared many things in common, including country music and being a U.S. military veteran. Johnny served in the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s as a SSgt and Tommy served in the U.S. Army after high school in the late 1950s. Tommy served in the U.S. Army as a disc jockey for the Armed Forces radio network. Post-service he trailblazed into the country music scene and by the mid-1960s was making headway by getting a contract with Musicor Records.

This is Chapter 4 in the Cancer Memoir. Catch up with previous chapters here.
I have rewritten this part of my cancer journey a handful of times. I am trying to find the best words to describe the first five months of my active cancer fight. In just five months, I watched my body slowly transform into a completely different person, from losing my hair, eyelashes and eyebrows, gaining weight, and being unable to walk up and down the bleachers at my daughter’s soccer games without assistance.

There is a term used in public health research called “weathering” to describe the risk of chronic illness in minority groups who experience prolonged socio-economic adversity and marginalization. While this term focuses on racial minorities and economically disadvantaged groups, military families fit much of the criteria. We’ve faced a considerable amount of “weathering” in our own way. 
The past two decades of global conflict placed military families under enormous strain and now quality of life stressors are taking center stage.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — After multiple engagements with industry, the Space Force is addressing top concerns from commercial firms regarding Pentagon plans to stand up a commercial space reserve fleet — including alternatives to “denial of service” clauses and options for financial protection.
The Space Force intends to have companies under contract for its Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) by 2025 or earlier, Col. Richard Kniseley, director of the Commercial Space Office (COMSO), told reporters this week at AFA’s Air, Space and Cyber conference.

The Navy’s highest-ranking admiral and first woman to lead a U.S. military service said she is in good health after undergoing treatment for Stage 1 breast cancer, the Navy announced on Friday.
Doctors treating Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti said she is now “cancer free” after completing radiation therapy in August, according to the Navy.
Franchetti, 60, is being treated at the John P. Murtha Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a Navy news release says.

USChinaPress.com

Taking advantage of the Freedom of Speech in America, the CCP has been engaging in a massive media war against America on American soil for decades. Recently, the CCP has further intensified its attack, especially on young Americans using various social media/streaming platforms, such as TikTok, YouTube, etc. This article presents only a few examples.
The CCP’s Chinese-language media in America often tend to be overlooked by Americans. Maybe this is due to the language barrier. These media aim to brainwash overseas Chinese with CCP’s propaganda.

The Army is experimenting with different applications of its current systems to devise new concepts as a way to outpace emerging threats on the battlefield.
“Much of what we’re doing right now is just using what we have better and then experimenting within our units here to evolve with what we have today at the pace with which we’re observing change in the world,” Maj. Gen. Christopher Norrie, commander of 3rd Infantry Division, told reporters Friday during a media call.

Present at the DVD 2024 armoured event at Millbrook test grounds, the Challenger 3 is a heavily upgraded version of the Challenger 2 tank.