Dennis Franz, the star of the long-running and highly acclaimed NYPD Blue and a supporting actor in the popular and enduring series Hill Street Blues, turned 80 on October 28. He has had a long and interesting career in Hollywood in film and TV. Before he made his way into Tinsel town, Franz served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He served with noteworthy units such as the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne and served 11 months in the country. Franz served in reconnaissance during the war and suffered from depression after his service.
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The Biden administration recently reported that there are 8,000 North Korean Soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia, close to Ukraine. They are allegedly there to assist Russia in its war against Ukraine.
America’s Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations stated, “We just received some information, just coming in now, that right now there are some 8,000 DPRK soldiers in Kursk Oblast.” DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea as commonly known worldwide.
This is Chapter 3 in the Transition Memoir. Catch up here.
Although my official transition out of the military didn’t begin until after my husband completed an eight-week training, it was the catalyst that began the downward swing of emotions and was the beginning of the end of feeling confident I was going to be okay after leaving the military behind. I had no idea what was coming or how hard it would be and how even after he returned the turn of events would leave my confidence shattered and my emotions a mess that I didn’t know how to pick through and move forward.
In 2020, David Pion-Berlin and Andrew Ivey wrote “Civil-Military Lessons from Latin America,” which argued that militaries can publicly dissent from orders that endanger military professionalism and human rights while protecting professional standards and preventing democratic backsliding. In the wake of additional cases of civil-military strain in Latin America over the last four years, we asked David and Andrew to revisit their article.
U.S. Special Operations Command updated its technical areas of interest in a broad agency announcement to include additional autonomous capabilities that could aid commandos with their missions.
The changes to the BAA came in an amendment posted Thursday on Sam.gov.
A new subsection, dubbed “collaborative autonomy,” is part of the document’s list of disruptive technologies that officials are eyeing.
Army special operations officials are developing a new robotics tech warrant officer career field that would be dedicated to incorporating robots and autonomous systems into military operations.
The new military occupational specialty is still pending approval, but U.S. Army Special Operations Command is “piloting the development of a Robotics and Autonomous Systems MOS for the Army,” Lt. Col. Allie Scott, director of public affairs for USASOC, told Task & Purpose.
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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, recently called Donald Trump a “fascist to the core” and “a wannabe dictator.” That such a senior military leader would feel comfortable saying this about his former boss is remarkable given that similar statements by officers have, in the past, resulted in severe punishment. The U.S. Constitution makes the president—the only democratically elected leader in the chain of command—commander in chief.
Leah Strosin, RealClearDefense
James M. Stephens, Marine Corps Gazette
Reevaluating a supposedly foundational text.
Tommy Marquez, RCDefense