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Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, can now buy beer and hard seltzers from the base’s new dining hall, Army officials said.
42 Bistro at Fort Hood is the first of the Army’s new dining halls to offer alcohol for sale. The bistro opened in February and is what the service is calling a “campus-style dining venue,” modeled off of college cafeterias and run by a private contractor.
“Our soldiers are adults, so we’re treating them accordingly,” said Lt. Col. Joseph Payton, a spokesperson for III Corps at Fort Hood.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spent much of last week promising “victory” in his war in Ukraine.

Those claims ring increasingly hollow as more details emerge of secret funerals for one – and at one time reported as potentially two – of his top generals.

Putin New Year’s Message. Image Credit: Russian Government.

Vladimir Putin Russian President 2019. Image Credit: Kremlin.

Those reported to have been killed were victims of what was a planned assassination attempt that occurred only a short distance from the Kremlin itself.

Roughly 250 active duty soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, are currently assisting with efforts to battle a wildfire in Washington state that has burned almost 58,000 acres since it began on July 17.
Most of the soldiers helping with the firefighting efforts are assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, said Lt. Col. Cain Claxton, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command.

A top German General says Russia is preparing to launch a wider war as it fights a full-scale conflict in Ukraine.

The Kremlin, he says, is using hybrid attacks to probe NATO’s defenses.

T-14 Armata Tank Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

T-14 Armata. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The warning comes from Gen. Carsten Breuer, the 17th Inspector General of Germany’s Bundeswehr.

In his position, he acts as the top military advisor to the German government and leads the nation’s ongoing military rearmament and strategic defense overhaul.

With the status of the Strait of Hormuz in much flux, there hadn’t been much attention in recent days on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, where the Iran-allied Houthi militia had imposed a blockade on Saudi oil last month.

But that changed Wednesday, when the Houthis fired a missile at a ship in that Strait, killing six people.

An F-15EX Eagle II Fighter Jet assigned to the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, taxis out from Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Oct. 21, 2021.

The world of Ukrainian missile defense advocates was euphoric when, during the early July NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, U.S. President Donald Trump stated he was willing to give Kyiv “the blueprints” needed to build its own Patriot missiles.

But the sense of optimism has since faded due to US technology releaseability issues.

Collins Aerospace has won a contract valued at up to $472m from the US Army to deliver engineering services for the CH-47 Chinook fleet.

Northrop Grumman announce the development of a 50mm gun-based platform during the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama

With Hurricane Sandy threatening the United States’ east coast, Robin Walbridge still planned to set sail.
Walbridge, captain of the HMS Bounty, intended to leave New London, Connecticut, on Thursday, October 25, 2012, as scheduled. St. Petersburg, Florida, was the ship’s destination. Being out on the ocean during a hurricane is dangerous for any ship, but Walbridge believed a vessel was safer at sea than it was tied up in port.

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The Navy declined to say when Reagan might next be deployed.