Chuck Woolery, known for his work on Love Connection, Wheel of Fortune, Lingo, Scrabble, and other game shows, passed away on November 23, 2024, at the age of 83. Following high school, he served in the U.S. Navy for two years in the early 1960s aboard the USS Enterprise, CVN-65. CVN-65 was the first ever nuclear-powered U.S. Naval aircraft carrier that served well into the 21st century.
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A federally approved clinical trial study will look at how cannabis use impacts post-traumatic stress disorder — and it’s focused specifically on the veteran community.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, MAPS, announced this month that it got through the final hurdles with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to get approval for a clinical study to look at veterans’ “real-world” cannabis use.
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The Navy began procuring Constellation (FFG-62) class frigates (FFGs) in FY2020, and a total of six have been procured through FY2024.
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Long before James Cameron’s Terminator and Stanley Kubrick’s
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A proposal to bring healing three years after the end of America’s longest war.
Stephen Blank, RealClearDefense
The United States has long declared its goal to maintain a “status quo” that avoids an official position on Taiwan’s sovereignty, discourages Taiwan from declaring independence, and as a result, effectively equates to there being no outbreak in hostilities. Washington’s ad nauseam recitation of U.S. support for the “status quo” — defined as the existing state of affairs — is, however, increasingly disconnected from both the reality of China as the “most powerful adversary the United States has faced in living memory” and Taiwan’s maturation as a vibrant democracy.
“The coming war is going to be a technology war. The country’s top innovators feel that there is a huge disconnect between what the U.S. military ecosystem can produce and what’s possible if we engaged civilians to develop weapon systems for critical technologies…The only solution is to outsource advanced weapons systems development outside of the traditional services and government ecosystem and hand the development to civilians.” -Vannevar Bush to President Roosevelt in 1940 So said one of our country’s greatest innovators to the president of the United States.
U.S. and U.K. military personnel have been actively monitoring installations around and airspace over Royal Air Force Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Feltwell and RAF Fairford for mysterious small drones that have been repeatedly spotted near those bases since Nov. 20 and are yet to be attributed to any adversarial or other sources.
But so far, there’s been no associated operational or safety impacts to troops on the ground there, defense officials told reporters Tuesday.
“The U.S. military are guests in England … at the indication of the government of the United Kingdom.