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Starmer is reportedly considering putting more strength behind his vision for the UK as a nation that puts “NATO First”.

After the Japanese captured U.S. Army Pvt. Joseph “Jose” Quintero in 1942, he began plotting his revenge.
Being imprisoned was bad enough. His mind filled with memories of Japanese bombers destroying American flag poles during World War II, Quintero devised a form of payback.
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Along with the help of another prisoner of war in their camp in Niigata, Japan, Quintero secretly began making his own flag. They would have been tortured or possibly killed if either one was discovered.
The Japanese guards, though, never caught on.

Six pilots and crew from a New York National Guard helicopter unit made a pair of flights into an active firefight in 2023 to rescue a team of French special forces soldiers who had been ambushed by Islamic State fighters. The mission received almost no public attention in the U.S until last weekend, when all six received valor awards from the French army.
The six guardsmen received the French National Defense Gold Medal, an award roughly equivalent to the U.S. military’s Bronze Star Medal with a “V” device for valor.

Many American men were trying to avoid serving the U.S. military in the 1960s and 1970s, but at least one American man was trying anything to get in—and it wasn’t Steve Rogers.
Captain Richard Flaherty had to get a waiver to join the Army during the Vietnam War. He wasn’t flat-footed, he had no debilitating conditions, and he was an otherwise perfectly healthy young man. His only problem was that he stood four feet, nine inches tall.

World War II history is filled with an unending list of famous names, many of whom are the generals and flag officers who planned and led the war to its now well-known conclusion. High-ranking military officers like George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and William “Bull” Halsey went from dominating the headlines to dominating the history books forever. 
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But everyone has to answer to someone, and as far as U.S. military personnel were concerned, even the Supreme Allied Commander had a boss.

BAE Systems has received a contract valued at over $500m to supply more M109A7 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers to the US Army.

During his State of the Union address, President Trump recognized Army Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover with the Congressional Medal of Honor. Slover was injured in the raid to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, Americans are called not only to celebrate the founding of the nation, but to reflect on the institutions that have defended its ideals across generations.
Among those institutions, none has maintained a clearer sense of continuity, identity, and purpose than the United States Marine Corps. From its birth during the American Revolution to its modern role as a globally deployed expeditionary force, the Marine Corps has adapted to every era of warfare while remaining faithful to its original mission.

President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to two pilots on Tuesday: Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover, who was wounded while flying a helicopter during January’s mission that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro; and retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams, who shot down four Soviet jet fighters during the Korean War.
Both Slover and Williams were presented with the U.S. military’s highest award for valor as Trump gave his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.

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In 2026, could UPS run all their ground delivery operations using 1965 Dodge A100 vans?
Sure they could. They could hire a whole new cadre of specialized mechanics to maintain the old girls. They’d need some place in the desert to keep a bunch of non-roadworthy A100s for spare parts, since many of those parts have not been manufactured in decades. For those parts that cannot be found, they can pay someone exorbitant prices to build replacement parts no one else but UPS needs.