President Donald Trump has tapped Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach to be the next chief of staff of the Air Force and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The nomination was submitted to the Senate on Monday and referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee for consideration, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov.
Wilsbach recently served as commander of Air Combat Command, where he was responsible for organizing, training, equipping and maintaining combat-ready air, cyberspace, and electromagnetic spectrum forces. Prior to that, he was commander of Pacific Air Forces.
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The Army rolled out the details of a policy that will allow soldiers under investigation for misconduct to be promoted, receive awards, and move to a new assignments, rather than see their careers frozen in place.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made the new approach to investigations a central tenet of a speech he delivered to senior officers Tuesday in Virginia.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that the requirements for all military combat arms jobs “returns to the highest male standard only.”
Hegseth was speaking before a large gathering of general and flag officers in Quantico, Virginia.
“War does not care if you’re a man or a woman, neither does the enemy,” he said.
He added that the move is not meant to prevent women from serving in combat jobs, but said that may be the result.
The Spanish Army has a contract with France-based Exosens for the supply of 17,000 monocular night vision devices.
German armaments builder Rheinmetall has secured a contract to supply ammunition to an undisclosed Eastern European customer.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Address Military Leaders at Quantico.
“Welcome to the Department of War”.
“Preparing for war, and planning to win. Because we love peace.
“Our number one job is to be strong so we can prevent war in the first place.
“Those who deserve peace, are the ones who are willing to wage it.
“We owe our republic a military that will win any war.
“Any enemy will be crushed by the War Department.
“This is a moment of urgency. There is no times for games. We must prepare now.
In 2023, the Navy hired a Los Angeles video firm to make four short films about a string of deadly accidents and the human errors, including lack of sleep, that led to them. The films would be training videos for future officers and chiefs and chronicle the crew fatigue and poor training that led to the grounding of the USS Antietam, and the deadly collisions at sea involving the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain, all in 2017.
The Navy paid the studio $200,000 for a series entitled “Out of Harm’s Way,” and then the same amount for a second series in 2024.
And then, they disappeared.
Charlie Sheen is war movie royalty. “Platoon” is arguably one of the best ever made. There’s no Cold War movie better than “Red Dawn” (just ask Chris Hemsworth about that). He even lampooned war movies in “Hot Shots,” and “Hot Shots: Part Deux,” which set up the most epic war movie joke of all time, featuring his dad reprising his “Apocalypse Now” role as Captain Willard.
There’s good news for anyone who enjoyed Charlie Sheen’s Netflix documentary series “aka Charlie Sheen.
Medic Marwan Abedin working at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was shot by a quadcopter drone while inside the facility. Security footage shows the worker collapsing from a head wound near a window.
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As Europe continues to come to terms with both the Russian threat amid the war in Ukraine as well as the uncertainty surrounding the U.S. commitment to Europe, policymakers across the continent are urgently considering alternative deterrence arrangements. French President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly spoken of the “European dimension” to the French nuclear deterrent and his country’s willingness to open a conversation about extending a French nuclear umbrella to Europe’s non-nuclear states.