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The 48-star flag is an understated legend. While we all love Alaska and Hawaii, the United States became back-to-back World War champions when the Stars and Stripes had only 48 stars. That’s the vibe Firebrand Flags founder Kyle Daniels was trying to recreate when he jumped into Normandy for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day in 2024. 
“I was thinking about the legacy of World War II soldiers,” Daniels told We Are the Mighty. “D-Day is one of the most pivotal days in human history.

The new Counter-Intelligence Unit will protect the most critical defence capabilities, at home and overseas, against serious threats.

Anti-personnel mines are widely reviled, especially in the humanitarian community, but there are certain places in which they could be used to prevent war in the first place. The eastern edge of Europe is one of those places.On March 18, the defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland recommended the withdrawal of their states from the Ottawa Convention, which bans anti-personnel landmines.

Veterans organizations will hold a day of protests in various cities and at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities around the country on Friday, June 6, headlined by a rally in Washington, D.C. that will feature the punk and activist band Dropkick Murphys.
The protests, say organizers of the D.C. event, are aimed at speaking out against expected staffing cuts to the VA, which they say will greatly impact care for veterans.
“We want to have a big tent for this.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it receive 445 pages of records from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, revealing that speakers at the March 2024 “Founders Day” event were instructed to “AVOID saying ‘removed,’ ‘replaced,’ ‘deleted’ [when referring to the new mission statement] – just refer to the ‘updated mission statement and reinforce that the motto remains unchanged.” [Emphasis in original] The records also tie DEI efforts to the mission statement controversy.

From left, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Andrew C. Gainey, commanding general, U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general, U.S. Army Europe and Africa and Command Sgt. Maj. Chad B. Harness, command sergeant major of SETAF-AFPublic Domain

The war between Ukraine and Russia seems never-ending. Tensions escalated last week after Ukraine destroyed Russian aircraft deep inside Russia and Russia struck civilian targets in response.

An email apocalypse that swept across the Marine Corps earlier this year now has a legendary ending, cementing its place in Corps lore.
It all began in April, innocently enough, when Marine Cpl. Andrew Hundley, a cyberspace warfare operator, completed his corporal’s course, an important but routine series of classes that Marines must take as they move up in rank.
But then someone tasked with the incredibly ordinary and minor office chore of emailing a copy of Hundley’s training certificate made a big boo boo.
You see where this is going.

After over a year of uncertainty over the fate of the Air Force’s efforts to develop boost-glide hypersonic missiles, the service’s top official told lawmakers that its upcoming budget request for fiscal 2026 will include funding for the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW).
Following a troubled flight testing campaign, the Air Force decided not to include any funding to procure ARRW in its budget request for fiscal 2025.

Navy leaders are preparing to roll out new procurement incentives as part of a broader campaign inside the department to confront challenges that are affecting how sailors and civilians buy and adopt commercial technologies for real-world missions.
“I think we’ve done a pretty good job of changing some of the incentive structures for our industry partner teammates. What we are now working through — and you’ll see quite a bit from the Department of the Navy on this in the next week — is changing the incentives for our acquisition teammates.

The Navy is offering more sailors with gender dysphoria the opportunity to take early retirement, according to a notice from the service released this week. Under the new rule, sailors with as few as 15 years on active duty can now apply for early retirement.
The cash and benefits of a formal military retirement package, which troops must usually serve 20 years to earn, are significantly more generous than those offered to those who separate earlier in their careers.