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This is Chapter 2 in the Cancer Memoir. Start with Chapter 1 here.
I was diagnosed on November 15, 2023, with stage 3 breast cancer.
I want to rewind a little. Before my diagnosis and starting my cancer journey, I was not aware of what really goes into receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. It is not just one mammogram and boom: you have a diagnosis. It is a combination of images and tests. My journey started with a mammogram, then an ultrasound, and four biopsies later, I had my diagnosis. I say all of this because a lot of this cancer journey is a hurry-up-and-wait adventure.

A Maryland Air National Guard member left paralyzed from “routine” back surgery at a military hospital had no legal recourse because of a 1950 Supreme Court decision called the Feres Doctrine which rendered the government free of legal accountability for service member injury claims.
Now, veteran groups are trying to bring the case before the Supreme Court in the hopes of overturning the doctrine which, they argue, has denied thousands of service members legal recourse.

The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and AI Office kicked off an inaugural “challenge” to industry, asking vendors to pitch their solutions for contested logistics and sustainment to help the Pentagon advance its Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) initiative.
The move, which the mission commander of the U.S.

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Naval Air Systems Command has launched a new effort to integrate an artificial intelligence-enabled pilot with one of its aerial targets, laying the foundation for the service’s plans to introduce autonomous flight capabilities into its aviation fleet.
The Navy this week announced that it awarded a contract to Shield AI that will allow the company to integrate its AI pilot — dubbed Hivemind — onto the service’s BQM-177A subsonic aerial target.

The Navy fired the commanding officer of the USS John S. McCain for what it termed “a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer.”
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, who has commanded the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer since October 2023, was relieved of command during its current deployment in the Middle East, where it has been operating since April while assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
No details were available on why Yaste was removed from command.

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Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore claimed Thursday that it was “an honest mistake” when he lied about being a prestigious Bronze Star recipient on a 2006 White House fellowship application. 
Moore, who was 27 years old when he applied for the White House position, blamed his Army superiors for the inclusion of the falsehood on the application and said he never corrected the mistake because he was eager to “begin the next phase” of his life, in a statement released after the New York Times reported on the embellishment.

R. Grant, RCD
Spoiler alert: if you haven’t been following the Navy’s plans this summer to buy a new jet trainer for carrier pilots, a big change is coming.

NatDefMag
Just like the terrestrial combatant commands, Space Command needs better ways to maneuver and prosecute targets in its area of responsibility, and emerging technologies such as…

Bloomberg
The Pentagon is withholding $5 million from Lockheed Martin Corp.