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U.S. forces patrolling the southern Caribbean fired on a Venezuelan boat that U.S. officials say was linked to drug trafficking. President Donald Trump posted a video to social media of an apparent airstrike on a moving speedboat that he said was carrying a drug shipment.
“We, just over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat. Lot of drugs in that boat,” Trump told reporters at the White House, before hinting that further strikes may be coming. “And there’s more where that came from.

Nearly six years after the Space Force became the newest military branch, its guardians finally have a timeline for when they’ll be able to wear a new service dress uniform that is distinctive to the branch.
The Space Force plans to make its first service dress uniform available to guardians later this year with staged rollouts throughout in 2026, said Air Force spokesperson Maj. Kaitlin D. Holmes. Recruiters and military training instructors at boot camp will get the first wave, along with senior leaders and brand-new graduating Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets.

The Army has awarded a Lockheed Martin-led industry team an other transaction agreement to help the service move toward a next-generation command and control architecture, officials announced Tuesday.
The NGC2 initiative aims to improve how the force passes data to commanders so they can make better and faster decisions on the battlefield. It’s one of the Army’s top modernization priorities, and troops have already begun experimenting with the technology at venues like Project Convergence.

An Army program that used peer and subordinate feedback to select leaders for command is being discontinued.
The Command Assessment Program, CAP, was created as a pilot program in 2019 to evaluate sergeants major, lieutenant colonels, and full-bird colonels for command assignment in battalion and brigade-level units using peer and subordinate feedback. Each year, nearly 2,000 candidates are evaluated under CAP for Army leadership positions.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the headquarters for U.S. Space Command will relocate from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama — ending a years-long turf war over where the combatant command responsible for military space operations should be permanently located.
“Most importantly, this decision will help America defend and dominate the high frontier,” Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office.

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When Maria Reed’s husband retired from the Army this year, and her son Patrick became the fourth generation in the family to serve, she knew she wasn’t done serving the military community herself. As the creator of “Moving With the Military,” Reed has spent nearly a decade transforming homes–and lives of military families–one room at a time.
“I knew nothing about the military when I married into it,” Reed admits. “I think that’s why I do what I do now–I want to mentor young military families and support them through the journey.

Most people who lose an arm, a leg, and several organs in a suicide bomb would call themselves victims. Tyler Vargas-Andrews refuses to.
His motto is simple: “Never a victim.”
“I’m a casualty of war — but I’ll never be a victim. That’s a choice,” he said proudly. “Weakness is a choice, happiness is a choice.”
Vargas-Andrews grew up in Northern California, near Travis Air Force Base, surrounded by a community of military families. After September 11, many of his friends’ parents deployed to Afghanistan.

When Troy Campbell and Travis Ellis first met in 2012, neither could have predicted the movement they were about to launch. 
One was a Marine stationed near Atlanta, the other a businessman and community leader. Their paths crossed through the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce’s Honorary Commanders program, which pairs military leaders with local business and political figures to foster understanding of national defense and its impact on the community.
Ellis said the program changed him.

Austin Carrigg’s journey with the Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) began soon after her husband enlisted in 2002. Their oldest son was enrolled in the program due to respiratory issues, which canceled their orders to Germany and instead sent them to Fort Campbell, where her husband deployed shortly after.
Their second child, born after that deployment, had even greater medical needs. 
“That kiddo had a lot more going on medically than our first one,” Carrigg told We Are The Mighty.