On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers, 160th SOAR soldiers, Delta Force operators, Navy SEALs, and Air Force pararescuemen and combat controllers, collectively known as Task Force Ranger, engaged Somali militia fighters in the Battle of Mogadishu. Part of Operation Gothic Serpent, the effort to capture warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in response to his attacks on U.N. peacekeepers during the Somali Civil War, the raid to capture two Aidid lieutenants quickly devolved into some of the most intense U.S. military combat since the Vietnam War.
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Since she entered U.S. Transportation Command’s headquarters in 2021 as the first woman to ever lead that top mobility hub, Gen. Jackie Van Ovost was determined to enable new and advanced capabilities and a stronger underlying technology infrastructure to pave the way for more data-informed decisions and sharper, real-time views into military assets worldwide.
As a second major hurricane in as many weeks barrels towards the southern United States, the Pentagon has been tasked with pre-staging high-water vehicles and helicopters for both search and rescue and transporting relief supplies and troops in central Florida after Hurricane Milton.
The preparations come as close to 10,000 soldiers and other service members are deployed to relief efforts of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, Tennessee and elsewhere in that storm’s path.
A military veteran and an accomplice were charged with running an elaborate phone scam from inside a jail that targeted ailing veterans in healthcare facilities, including some who were in intensive care units. federal prosecutors said.
The pair allegedly targeted more than 60 victims from 30 medical facilities, some run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and attempted 130 fraudulent transactions on victim accounts, obtaining about $8,000 from the scheme, the Department of Justice said.
Ukraine has shifted its long-range strikes to Russian ammunition depots and away from sites of critical national infrastructure.
The National Guard takes great pride in providing aid and assistance to their own communities in the wake of natural disasters. To that end, over 6,700 National Guard members from 16 states mobilized in response to Hurricane Helene. Guardsmen in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia mobilized in and around their home states. Additionally, Guardsmen from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, Alabama, Indiana and Iowa provided assistance to the Southeast where Helene claimed over 200 lives.
Following an order made in July, this contract is set to supply the Lithuanian armed forces with an additional mobile air defence battery.
The Dutch government will create a joint Drone Action Plan with Ukraine; more than half of production will occur in the Netherlands.
Three of four companies in the US Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) programme have delivered their prototypes systems to the service.
Tommy Vu can do more burpees than you. That’s a fact. The major with the Oregon National Guard’s medical command proved it this past weekend when he set a new Guinness World Record for burpees in one hour, completing 1,027 of the notorious love-to-hate movements in that time period.
Why? Because he could. And for charity.
The workout, done in Salem, Oregon, saw the 36-year-old officer reclaim the top spot after falling to second place. Specifically, the record is for chest-to-ground burpees in one hour, by a male competitor.