Extensive flooding has damaged multiple buildings at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The facility in Bethesda, Maryland, which treats thousands of injured service members as well as American presidents, saw 50 rooms, 11 hallways and five elevators impacted as a result of several pipes freezing and then bursting due to the cold weather. Services on site have been greatly impacted for the last two weeks, and it will take many more to fully repair the installation.
The situation started on Jan.
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Reports are coming in that the social media accounts of Captain Rebecca Lobach, the female pilot of the recent mid-air collision over Reagan National airport in Washington, DC, have been scrubbed, along with those of her family.
As I mentioned in another article, I have several thousand hours in high-performance rotary-wing aircraft flying for a Tier One Special Operations unit.
Mid-air collisions do happen.
In my experience, they typically happen on a no-moon night with very low visibility while on night-vision googles, during low visibility in bad weather, while flying in close formation, or when one aircraft makes a violent movement and a close-by aircraft cannot move in time to avoid a collision.
U.S. forces launched several airstrikes in northern Somalia, targeting members of the Islamic State’s branch in the country. U.S. Africa Command as well as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the operation on Saturday. It’s the first American military operation in Somalia announced by the Trump administration; Trump’s previous presidency saw extensive aerial strikes inside the African nation.
The attacks took place in Somalia’s Puntland state in the north, with Hegseth specifying they occurred within the Gholis mountain range.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Announced Friday that all options, including military strikes against cartels on Mexican soil are “on the table.”
Hegseth asserted that nothing is out of the question “if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.”
The development comes after Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office to designate “cartels and other organizations as foreign terrorist organizations.
STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY of Capt Rebecca Lobach, the Army Blackhawk co-pilot:
“We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. She was a bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong. No one dreamed bigger or worked harder to achieve her goals.
Rebecca began her career in the United States Army as a distinguished military graduate in ROTC at the University of North Carolina, and was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide.
Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach excelled at everything she did, and she would always help someone in need, even in the early hours of the morning, said her friend 2nd Lt. Lexi Freas.
“She was passionate about leadership, passionate about mentorship, and passionate about being a master of her skill craft,” Freas told Task & Purpose on Saturday. “Everything she did, she put 100% of her heart and effort into. No task was too big or too little for her to handle for her soldiers and the people that she mentored and loved.
(White House Executive Order) By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
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On August 24, 2021, the Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Secretary of Defense later rescinded the mandate on January 10, 2023.
The vaccine mandate was an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden on our service members.
The U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division released the names of two soldiers who died Thursday night during a training accident. Spc. Jacob Mullen, 25, of Maryland and Staff Sgt. Shelbe Butner, 28, of Missouri were killed in a vehicle rollover at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
3rd Infantry Division announced the death of two soldiers on Friday but did not immediately identify them in order to first notify next of kin. Both soldiers were a part of 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division and described by the division as “dedicated motor transport operators.
The day before the official start of Black History Month in the United States, the U.S. Department of Defense canceled and blocked any celebrations of it and other “identity months.”
The Jan. 31 release from new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declares “Identity Months Dead at DoD.” The directive from the secretary’s office argues that “[e]fforts to divide the force – to put one group ahead of another – erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.