The U.S. military carried out airstrikes on more than 800 targets in Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen since March 15, U.S. Central Command said this past week.
These strikes have destroyed multiple command-and-control facilities, air defense systems, advanced weapons manufacturing facilities, advanced weapons storage locations, and killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders,” CENTCOM spokesman Dave Eastburn said in a statement to Task & Purpose, echoing comments given to reporters at the end of the week.
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Federal immigration agents arrested the spouse of an active-duty Coast Guardsman on Thursday on-base at Naval Air Station Key West.
The Coast Guardsman and spouse were at the government housing area on the base on April 24 when agents of Homeland Security Investigations, a part of Immigration and Custom Enforcement or ICE. The family was in the process of moving onto the base in Florida.
Reports of the arrest were posted to social media, including military subreddits on Reddit.
U.S. Army Capt. Travis Chewning-Kulick is fast. Very fast. Specifically he’s very fast when inside a U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal suit. Chewning-Kulick, commander of the 752nd Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), just set a Guinness World Record for the fastest mile in a bomb disposal suit.
His time? 7 minutes and 4 seconds.
Chewning-Kulick set the new world record on the morning of Friday, April 25 at Fort Cavazos in Texas.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed his dismay on April 25 after a new report found that more than two-thirds of U.S. military reserve personnel are overweight.
Washington-based think tank American Security Project (ASP) published a white paper this week that found that nearly 68 percent of reserve troops are overweight or obese.
n 2018, when the Department of Defense last surveyed obesity rates in the reserve military components, it found that around 65 percent of reserve troops were considered overweight or obese.
The U.S. Navy officially named the sailor who went missing in Guam, a week after his last known appearance. The Navy and U.S. Coast Guard called off the search for Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Gabriel D. Holt on Thursday, having scoured more than 11,000 square nautical miles in the ocean over five days.
Holt, who served aboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, has been listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown. Holt was last seen onshore in Guam at 11:57 p.m. on April 18, when the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group arrived in port, and was listed as unaccounted for the following day.
We have written about certain Israeli voices’ push to involve the United States in another Middle Eastern war – this time with the nation of Iran.
We have discussed how there is significant evidence the regime of the mullahs could be taken down from the inside, with U.S. assistance to Iranian resistance elements and how war is not the only option to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The Senate Armed Services Committee has announced that the hearing to consider the nomination of Matthew Lohmeier to be the Under Secretary of the Air Force will be held on Thursday, 1 May 2025 at 9:30 am ET in room SD-G50, Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Watch the hearing livestreamed on this page.
Also being considered at the same hearing is Justin P. Overbaugh, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and Daniel L. Zimmerman to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
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