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Marine leaders will decide this year whether to outfit each of their divisions with a maritime reconnaissance company

Sam LaGrone, USNI News
The Coast Guard could see $14.

Chad Williamson, RCD
On May 5th, more than 20,000 people will converge in downtown Tampa for the annual Special Operations Forces Week—known simply as

Bloomberg
the F-35, the costliest U.S.

As the Trump administration continues to widen its engagement with Iran, Washington has yet to grasp a stark reality: An Israeli-Saudi peace deal is almost certainly beyond reach in the foreseeable future. The reasons for that deserve examination, because they are emblematic of much wider trends in the region and American engagement internationally. The sooner Washington recognizes it, the better.     Two years ago, many insisted Saudi-Israel normalization was possible through a wider U.S.-fostered “mega-deal.

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the ensuing response by the medical establishment, was an eye-opening experience for tens of millions of Americans. We watched as the medical establishment put the biopharmaceutical complex’s bottom line above the health and well-being of the American people.
Sadly, greed in medicine isn’t new and it isn’t restricted just to pandemic responses. Indeed, greed is often the primary motivation for much of our medical establishment’s response to almost every single healthcare challenge we face.

I sat down with Rob Evans of Hots&Cots, Rob explains the series of events that happened at Ft. Johnson, formerly Ft. Polk, where several soldiers were turned away from DFAC due to errors with meal cards. DFAC refused to use head count form 3032 and told soldiers to see their S1 to get meal card issue corrected. Oh, this was a weekend. Not middle of duty week. So, soldiers were expected to pay out of pocket or make other meal plans. Rob also explains the response from leadership at Ft. Johnson. Situation is still ongoing as of this recording. Updates to follow if a resolution is found.

The Pentagon is preparing to deploy counter-drone capabilities around the U.S.-Mexico border as part of its ongoing support of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and security mandates there, two senior defense officials told lawmakers Tuesday. 
“[President Donald Trump] has issued several executive orders directing the Department of Defense to take all appropriate and lawful measures to ensure the complete operational control of the border.

1st Cavalry Division is helping the Army determine what the future of armored formations will look like.
1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, or Iron Horse, has been designated as one of the next so-called “transforming-in-contact” brigades, a top initiative for Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George. The effort aims to speed up how the Army buys capabilities and designs its forces by injecting emerging capabilities into units and letting them experiment with them during exercises and deployments.
The first iteration, TiC 1.

Marine Raiders are not expected to conduct Arctic operations in the near future because they are busy in other theaters, said Maj. Gen. Peter D. Huntley, who leads U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, MARSOC.
Currently, MARSOC has a persistent presence in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command theaters as well as East Africa, Huntley said in a statement to Task & Purpose.
“MARSOC deploys forces persistently to the three regions, and also conducts episodic engagement and training in other combatant commands,” Huntley said.