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Shawn Ryan on the Biden cancer lie, his years working for the CIA, and why suddenly everything seems fake.

Eighteen soldiers with the 6th Ranger Training Battalion have been temporarily suspended as instructors pending the outcome of an investigation into a May 16 incident in Florida, during which they allegedly fired blank rounds from their weapons at a public beach, said Jennifer S. Gunn, a spokeswoman for the Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Currently, the Ranger instructors cannot train students going through the final stage of the U.S. Army Ranger Course at Camp Rudder, located on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Gunn told Task & Purpose on Thursday.

The Navy and Marine Corps are poised to consolidate legacy and standalone IT networks into an enterprise information ecosystem as part of a large-scale modernization campaign that seeks to reduce the cyber attack surface, improve user experience and optimize technology investments.
In an unclassified memo viewed by DefenseScoop this week, the Navy’s Chief Information Officer Jane Rathbun unveiled this policy change and overarching plan to overhaul networks and their respective infrastructure into an integrated system that leverages enterprise IT services.

The Defense Information Systems Agency will see a 10 percent cut to its overall staff as a result of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to lean out the entire federal workforce, the agency’s leader told lawmakers Wednesday.
The upcoming losses are due to some DISA employees accepting deferred resignation or voluntary early retirement programs, terminations of probationary employees and other workforce reduction initiatives inspired by Elon Musk’s DOGE, according to Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, head of DISA and the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network.

Meanwhile an L3Harris exec told Breaking Defense that US Special Operations Command could request more of the prop planes than originally planned.

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) has received its first five 0A-1K Skyraider II close air support prop planes, the first of what officials said they hope to be a fleet highly configurable plane for bespoke special missions.
“Once we field operational crews here in the next few years, I think we will find ways to employ it and maybe ways we’re not even thinking about yet,” AFSOC commander Lt. Gen.

Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm in recent years. However, the technology has been around for longer than you might think. After Nick Mastronardi graduated from the University of Notre Dame with degrees in honors math and physics, he commissioned as an Air Force officer and went straight to work on automated systems. At the Air Force Research Lab, Mastronardi served as a research physicist and advanced munitions technology program manager. His work on feedback systems led him to teach at the Air Force Academy, where he met Alex Pedersen.

Editor’s Note: Nick Danforth’s journey as author of this column is drawing to a close. Keep an eye out for his forthcoming book, tentatively titled Fifty Maps That Don’t Explain the World! Meanwhile, we will continue our cartographic explorations, with more on maps coming soon from War on the Rocks.  We’ve finally come to the edge of the map, and I, for one, am stumbling off it. Mid-Afternoon Map will continue to appear in some form — perhaps under AI authorship — but this will be the last installment I write.

John Grady, USNI News
“Now is the time for fundamental change,”

Roblin, PopMechanics
The F-47’s illustrated features might have been intended as red herrings—or had their proportions exaggerated—all along. That’s no accident.

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