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Marine veteran and actor Adam Driver will portray Air Force combat controller John Chapman in a movie based on the battle in Afghanistan that earned him the Medal of Honor. Chapman died as he fought alone for hours on a mountain top in Afghanistan early in that war, drawing fire on himself as a vulnerable helicopter approached carrying a team of Army Rangers.
Longtime director Ron Howard is set to direct the film, which is reportedly to be called “Alone at Dawn.

A memo circulating on social media that purportedly outlines a new, hardcore fitness test for to the Air Force’s physical fitness policy is not authentic, Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek said on Monday.
Over the weekend, the undated memo was posted on unofficial Reddit and Facebook pages. It claimed that airmen who score 90 points or higher on the service’s new PT test would only have to take the test once a year and could also opt out of the 2-mile run. It also purportedly included details of a new “Combat Readiness Test.

The Navy is looking for automatic target recognition and tracking capabilities — and particularly, those that can stalk drone swarms or multiple vessels simultaneously — to deploy in operations involving its maritime helicopters.
Companies interested in supplying such products are invited to respond to a new request for information from Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane by Oct. 31.
“The ideal background for these solutions would be from air to ocean as surface or air to air with sea state as background utilizing different sensor types.

President Donald Trump has nominated Mark Roosevelt Ditlevson for an important policy role at the Pentagon.
Trump’s pick for assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs was submitted to the Senate Oct. 2 and referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee for consideration, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov.
Ditlevson had been serving in that role on an acting basis for several months, but his confirmation would put him in the job on a more permanent footing.

Sleep is, apparently, one of those things that medical professionals tend to claim is vital to not dying. While in the military, you’ll get so little sleep that your body grows accustomed to functioning at a high level with just four hours of non-continuous sleep.
For one reason or another, putting aside large chunks of time for that vital sleep just doesn’t happen. So, troops quickly learn how to rack out at the drop of a dime while smothered in their gear. Or they find a nice, cozy spot underneath a Humvee in the glaring Afghan sun with only their rifle and pebbles to keep them comfy.

Burying aircraft is not a new practice. The only standout question is why a country buries an entire fleet of planes. Saddam Hussein buried all of Iraq’s advanced fighters before the 2003 American-led invasion so they wouldn’t get destroyed, for example. But Australia wasn’t worried about an invasion in 2010.
It also didn’t bury all of its planes. It only buried just one of its retired airframes, and the reason was worker safety.

Mistral and Uvision has been jointly awarded a contract valued at $982m by the US Army for the HERO 120 loitering munition system.

Australia has taken delivery of its first two Boeing AH-64E Apache helicopters at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Townsville.

The U.S. Navy’s maintainers have had to strip submarines and fighter jets for spare parts to repair other planes and subs, a government watchdog found. In at least one case, mechanics repairing a Navy fighter jet could not repair a radio because the cables needed for the job were only available from the manufacturer.
“Only that vendor can make the part, and generally, repairs to that part are made on the OEM’s schedule,” the Government Accountability Office found in a report released late last month.

Fans of service academy football got their first taste of the intensity that will define the 2025 Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy race. Secretary of Defense (War) Pete Hegseth was on hand in Annapolis on Saturday for the opening showdown between Navy and Air Force.
In an epic shootout, the Midshipmen handed the Falcons another heartbreaker loss, thanks in large part to senior slotback Eli Heidenreich’s career day.