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In late 2020, I connected with Lt Gen Rod Bishop (USAF, Ret) over the Hunter Biden laptop and its contents. Our discussions continued and we eventually realized that an organization needed to be set up to return the service academies to their rightful mission – to create warrior leaders for our nation’s armed forces.
The DEI/CRT agenda was in full swing, but we really didn’t realize how far it had advanced until President* Biden entered The White House and the full extent of the Marxist agenda became clear.

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In a blow to the military industrial complex and war profiteers in general, Pete Hegseth was confirmed as President Trump’s Secretary of Defense tonight after Vice President Vance cast his first tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate. Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky joined all Democrats to create the tie.

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Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, was confirmed as the next secretary of defense after Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate Friday night.
Senators voted 50-50 before Vance had to be called in to tip the balance.
After he’s formally sworn in, Hegseth will take the helm at the Defense Department as the DOD gears up for potential wars against high-tech adversaries such as China.

Military spouses are often the silent force that drives the strength and resilience of military families. Despite their significant contributions, their stories remain largely untold. The Mighty Spouse Award Program aims to change that by recognizing the diverse, often underappreciated role of military spouses across the nation. From supporting active duty service members to shaping vibrant communities, this award shines a well-deserved spotlight on the unsung homefront warriors who make sacrifices behind the scenes.

Alex O’Toole — the program officer for the Pentagon’s enterprisewide data and analytics “Advana” platform that’s in the midst of a major transformation — is preparing to soon exit that role and the Chief Digital and AI Office, sources told DefenseScoop this week.
His planned departure comes as President Donald Trump is installing new leaders across the Defense Department, and the government’s vision for the CDAO’s future (as well as Advana’s) remains unclear.

The National Reconnaissance Office and the Naval Postgraduate School recently put a new CubeSat into low-Earth orbit to conduct experiments and reduce risk for future programs of record.
The technology suite, dubbed Otter, was launched Jan. 14 via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, the Navy said in a news release Friday.
The platform’s primary payload has “space-based maritime domain awareness capabilities.

Military police and engineers from eight states are among the Army and Marine units the Pentagon is sending to the southern border this week while soldiers with the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions could join them soon, a U.S. official confirmed on Friday.
The soldiers from the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain have not yet been issued “prepare to deploy orders,” the official told Task & Purpose. Rather, they have been informed that if the secretary of defense orders the Army to send more troops to the southern border, they would be the next to go.

A small unit of Marines recently experimented with new 5G networking capabilities as the Corps is expanding its adoption of the technology to enable nimbler operations in more complex environments.
The force, part of Marine Air Control Group 38, participated in Steel Knight 24, an exercise at Camp Pendleton, California, where they used a 5G system to remote into a AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar for its multifunction air operations center, which includes the air controllers and air defenders serving as the sensor to coordinate aircraft in the tactical battlespace.

Welcome back! The Pentagon is wasting no time responding to President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the southern border. On Wednesday, the Defense Department announced that 1,000 soldiers and 500 Marines would deploy to the border area by the end of the week.
In addition to those forces, about 100 airmen will be involved in flying roughly 5,400 currently detained migrants out of the country, a senior defense and military official told reporters on Wednesday.

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