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They say age is just a number. There are many cases in recorded history where boys who were too young for military service lied about their age, claiming to be older so they could enlist and fight for a cause they believed in. What’s far less common is for men of a certain age to lie about that age — claiming to be younger.
If you could ask Canadian-born John William Boucher, he would probably tell you that age really is just a number and that he has the medals from two American wars to prove it. He was born in Ontario when Canada was still a British colony.
Two active-duty soldiers and an Army veteran were arrested for conspiring to sell classified materials on Army combat vehicles, rocket systems and military exercises to agents of the Chinese government, according to federal officials.
Sgt. Jian Zhao and Lt. Li Tian are soldiers based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, and Ruoyu Duan is a former U.S. soldier who was active between 2013 and 2017, according to federal court documents. All three were arrested this week on charges of handing over classified information to Chinese agents for as much as $50,000.
President Trump has reportedly grown angry that America essentially provides for Europe’s defense, while the Western capitals on The Continent push for war with Russia, likely enacting their globalist puppet masters’ agenda.
Europe was caught in the act, along with enablers in the U.S. deep state, working with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy prior to the recent blow up in D.C., to torpedo a peace deal with Russia.
The Air Force has lengthened the capstone event that all recruits face at the end of basic training to make sure that airmen sweat in training so they don’t bleed in war.
The first boot camp class to complete the new three-day PACER FORGE event — short for Primary Agile Combat Employment Range Forward Operations Readiness Generation Exercise — went through the 57-hour event this week, according to the Air Force.
Defense and military representatives from the U.S. and Algeria are getting set to participate in official working groups and design near-term implementation plans for the countries’ newly formalized deal to deepen security partnerships, according to a top official involved.
Sabri Boukadoum, Algeria’s ambassador to the United States, shed new light on that upcoming coordination session during a conversation with two reporters at the nation’s embassy in D.C. this week.
Secretary Pete Hegseth is directing all Defense Department components to embrace a rapid software acquisition pathway and use commercial solutions opening and Other Transaction authority to speed up the procurement of digital tools for warfighters.
The department’s Software Acquisition Pathway, or SWP, was set up during the first Trump administration under then Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord as part of a broader push for a so-called Adaptive Acquisition Framework that enables the department to procure software differently than it buys hardware.
The UK arranged a £30m deal to send Ukraine loitering munitions for its Black Sea operations as Britain takes the lead on European security.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled an ambitious financial strategy, termed the ReArm Europe Plan.
The British Army DE&S have officially accepted the 50th AH-64E Apache helicopter at Boeing’s Mesa manufacturing facility in Arizona, US.