Happy Friday! The Army announced this week that male and female soldiers in 21 combat military occupational specialties will have to meet the same standards on the new Army Fitness Test, which also eliminates the standing power throw event, which soldiers dubbed the “overhead yeet.”
Both men and women between 17 and 21 years old who serve in combat arms military occupational specialties will have to deadlift at least 140 pounds under the new changes — women previously had to lift 120 pounds.
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While few details have been released about the aircraft, “the capabilities that it brings to the fight are game changing,” said Maj Gen Joseph Kunkel
The 2S22 Bohdana, also referred to as Bogdan or Bogdana, is a 155mm artillery system developed by Kharkiv Tractor Plant in Ukraine.
Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for the showcase were transparent: Moscow offered to sell its fifth-generation fighter jet to New Delhi the next day. This is nothing new. Defense ties between the two countries go back decades. For the Biden administration, those ties were both an irritant and a puzzle: an irritant because India’s purchases undercut U.S.
SecDef works to return personnel with full restitution
Today, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth uttered words that thousands of U.S. military personnel loved to hear – the Covid vaccine mandate was an illegal order. Hegseth ordered all those who were forced out over vaccine refusal to be returned to service with full restitution.
Armed Forces Press has been vocal about the illegal nature of the order for years, sticking our neck out, and taking flak from those leaders lacking courage to do the right thing for our troops.