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It is the ninth known strike against an alleged drug boat in recent months.

The U.S. military has carried out another airstrike on an alleged drug cartel vessel — the second vessel to be hit in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in as many days, writes ABC News.
The latest strike was announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a social media post on Wednesday that also included video of the attack, which he said took place in international waters earlier that day.
Hegseth alleged the vessel was transporting narcotics and said three men were killed in the strike.

The Korean People’s Army on October 22 tested a new class of tactical ballistic missile, which uses a terminal stage with a hypersonic glide vehicle to revolutionise the country’s short range strike capabilities.

An airman found dead at F.E. Warren Air Force Base earlier this month was under investigation for an on-duty shooting that led to a service pistol being briefly pulled from duty across two major Air Force commands.
Officials at the base said Friday that Airman 1st Class Marcus White Allen was found dead on the morning of Oct. 8. White Allen’s death was the fourth among F.E. Warren security forces troops since July, a count that included the on-duty shooting for which White Allen was being investigated over.

The Army’s top acquisition official told DefenseScoop that he expects to see further growth in resources for the service’s FUZE initiative.
FUZE, which was announced last month by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, combines elements of multiple technology innovation programs — including the xTech, Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR), ManTech, and Technology Maturation Initiative efforts — under a more integrated framework to accelerate the delivery of new capabilities to soldiers, according to the service.

Long before grocery inflation or hoarding of toilet paper, there was a different kind of issue with the food supply: lack of volume. Throughout World War II, the U.S. saw severe shortages of items like metal, sugar, flour, coffee, and more. This was mostly due to attacks or embargoes on supplying countries. In the case of metal and rubber, those supplies were needed for the war effort rather than the general public. The same was true with many foods; citizens were given books of stamps that could be cashed in for allotment of food items during a certain period of time.

The Pentagon ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to sail to the Caribbean, adding one of the Navy’s largest and most potent formations to the major U.S. build-up in the region. The new deployment will add the aircraft carrier’s more than 70 aircraft and multiple destroyers to the array of firepower already sent to the region for a mission the White House insists is aimed at drug traffickers.

Before the injury, Lorna Illerbrunn said her husband would have simply wanted a retirement at a hangar, surrounded by Army helicopters, good friends, sandwiches from Jimmy John’s, and cold Miller Lite. 
Lorna Illerbrunn made sure all that was there for Garrett Illerbrunn’s retirement party, but what she really wanted was to make sure he had one last time in the cockpit of a helicopter.
“It took a lot of resources, time, energy, money, but I feel like it’s something that Garrett really could see how he was being honored,” Lorna told Task & Purpose this week.