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FLRAA was required to have the ability to travel roughly 2,440 nautical miles without refueling.

It’s been 30 years since movie audiences — and particularly military ones — met iconic disabled vet, Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, played by Gary Sinise. The character, says Sinise, changed his life.
Decades later, while visiting deployed troops overseas, troops would often not even know his real name, so they would greet him warmly as “Lt. Dan.”
Playing the role inspired Sinise to activism and charity work for veterans. As the movie turned 30, Sinise said he was grateful for the roll that paved the way for him to serve America’s military servicemen and women and honor veterans.

A retired Marine general found dead on the Twentynine Palms training center died of a pulmonary embolism hours before he was set to leave the base, a coroner found.
Maj. Gen. William F. Mullen, 59, was found by base authorities June 29 in guest housing at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California. The county’s coroner released its report on his death Thursday.
“Major General Mullen’s dedicated service to our nation and the Marine Corps will always be remembered.

The Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $200 million contract to build its second Deep-space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) that will be stationed in the United Kingdom, the Defense Department announced Friday.
Under development by Northrop Grumman, DARC is an all-weather, ground-based radar system designed to detect and track objects moving through geosynchronous orbit — over 22,000 miles above the Earth’s equator. Expected to serve as a key capability for the U.S.

In the days leading up to my husband’s first deployment, I remember him commenting that he was excited; he was ready to deploy. First, I must admit, I was crushed. How could he be excited to deploy? Wouldn’t he miss me? I distinctly remember that we were not on the same page. He had trained for months (if not years) to prepare for this mission. He was ready to deploy. As a spouse, I didn’t receive training, and emotionally I was not ready for the months to come.

Sitting across from my husband at our kitchen island over coffee, we began a conversation that would mark the beginning of our experience in transition and our walk towards recovering all that we had lost. “I feel completely betrayed.” The phrase hung heavy in the air as I processed the harsh words he had just spoken. The first thing I can remember thinking was the question in my mind, “Does he feel betrayed by me, the military, or the outcome of serving?” As it turns out, the answer was all three.

At the age of 17, Arthur Gregg enlisted in the Army in 1946. His Army biography cites frustration with segregation and the service of Black soldiers during WWII as the inspiration for Gregg to join up. Gregg spent the next 35 years in uniform serving his country. When he retired in 1981 as a Lieutenant General, Gregg was the highest-ranking Black officer in the U.S. military. On April 27, 2023, Fort Lee, Virginia was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams for Lt. Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley. Then-Maj.

Former Florida sheriff’s deputy Eddie Lee Duran Jr. has been charged with manslaughter for killing Senior Airman Roger Fortson in a split-second shooting at his off-base apartment, court documents show, a line-of-duty shooting that Duran’s department ruled as “not objectively reasonable.”
“A warrant for Duran’s arrest is outstanding at this time,” Florida State Attorney for the 1st Judicial Circuit Ginger Bowden Madden said in a statement on Friday. “If convicted as charged, Duran faces a maximum sentence of thirty years in state prison.

As the U.S. military prepares for future fights and simultaneously confronts intensifying conflicts in multiple regions of the world, Pentagon leaders are advancing efforts and technologies that promote civilian harm mitigation, according to a senior official deeply involved in that work.
“The world has gotten much more complicated, and we often think about how certain domains we’re now operating in routinely never existed a couple decades ago — cyberspace, electronic warfare.

Soldiers with the Army’s 10th Mountain Division paid tribute to their unit’s World War II lineage earlier this week by climbing to the tops of all 46 highest peaks in New York’s Adirondack Mountain Range in 25 separate groups.
More than 200 soldiers took part in Operation Commando Summit on Aug. 20 and 21, marking the first time that one organization has collectively summited all 46 High Peaks in a single day, according to a news release from the 10th Mountain Division.
“This event is a poignant reminder of who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed,” Sgt.