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Soldiers have a new incentive to get a high score on the service’s new Army Fitness Test. Those soldiers who score at least 465 are eligible to be exempt from the service’s body fat standards, Army officials have announced.
The maximum score that soldiers can get on the AFT is 500 points. To be eligible for the exemption, soldiers are required to score 80 points or more on each of the five events.

Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in Virginia for a reunion, of sorts, with the M4A3 Sherman tank that he drove onto the beaches of Iwo Jima.
Now 100, Willhite stood beside the tank, “Lucky,” on Aug. 15, the 80th anniversary of the announcement of Japan’s surrender in World War II, according to a museum news release. Lucky is one of just six surviving Sherman tanks that saw combat on Iwo Jima.
“It’s amazing,” Willhite said in the news release.

Naval Technology
The Phalanx CIWS is a “rapid-fire, computer-controlled, radar-guided gun” designed to neutralise a variety of close-in threats, including anti-ship missiles at sea and on…

“My center is giving way, my right is retreating, excellent situation, I attack.” French Gen. Ferdinand Foch pronounced these desperate words in September 1914 as German troops massed 25 miles from Paris for their final assault. The same words could be used today by analysts and diplomats still willing to promote greater cooperation between the United States and its European allies.