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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.

President Donald Trump is rolling out nominations this week to promote several officers to four-star rank and give them leadership of combatant commands.
On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich has been tapped by the commander-in-chief for appointment to the grade of general and assignment as commander of U.S. European Command. NATO has also agreed to appoint him as supreme allied commander Europe, according to the announcement.
Grynkewich is currently serving as director of operations, J-3, with the Joint Staff at the Pentagon.

Roshel has entered into an exclusive production agreement with ST Engineering for the ExtremV amphibious all-terrain vehicle in Canada.

The Army’s top leaders faced tough questions from lawmakers on Wednesday about media reports that the Pentagon is shifting $1 billion away from repairing Army barracks to instead fund military operations along the southern border.
And if that happens, there will be fewer repairs and renovations to the soldiers’ living quarters next year, the Army’s top general told lawmakers on Wednesday.

The Swedish Armed Forces has been directed by the government to allocate Skr550m ($57m) towards Nato’s assistance efforts for Ukraine.

James H. McGee, AmSpectator
The pitfalls of a target rich environment: lessons from Ukraine’s recent assault on Russia.

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