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The Senate Armed Services Committee joined with its House counterpart to authorize spending for a pair of Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine as part of the Fiscal Year 2025…
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Here are all the upgrades and new weapons that will turn the B-52 into a multi-role weapons and sensor truck of the future.
John Hill, Airforce Tech.
Merlin Pilot will reduce the crew flying U.S. tanker aircraft, leaving a single pilot flying the C-130J and KC-135 in the future.
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Operational Incompetence Dangerously Crippled America’s Expeditionary Force-in-Readiness
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The crew of an Alaska Air National Guard HH-60 and two pararescue specialists found and rescued 6 survivors of a plane crash in a remote National Park. Alaska National Guard photo by Seth LaCount.
A rescue helicopter crew and two pararescuemen from the Alaska Air National Guard found six survivors of a small plane crash — including two with severe injuries — deep in a remote national park, far from any roads in early June.
Lance Cpl. Austin Brian Schwenk was shot and killed at Camp Lejeune on Oct. 18, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Brunner Sanden Deitrick Funeral Home & Cremation Center in Ohio).
Lance Cpl. Austin Brian Schwenk was born on the Marine Corps’ largest base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
“He was born a Marine,” said his father Robert Brian Schwenk Jr., who served in the Marines from 2002 to 2006. Austin followed his father into the Marines, graduating from boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina in 2022.
In October, Lance Cpl.
When it comes to elevation and changes for the Air Force’s cyber component, the service’s top officer wants to make sure officials are meticulous in getting it right.
“AFCYBER is one of those … we want to make sure we measure twice and cut once because there’s different elements of that with respect to where the manpower belongs and … comes from different sources,” Gen. David Allvin, chief of Staff of the Air Force, told reporters at the Pentagon Friday.
The Space Force’s acquisition branch has discontinued its contract with Raytheon (RTX) to build three missile warning and tracking satellites for Epoch 1 of the service’s Resilient Missile Warning and Missile Tracking – MEO (MEO MW/MT) program, DefenseScoop has learned.
Space Systems Command notified Raytheon of the discontinuation in May and held a design closure event earlier this month, an SSC spokesperson said in an email.
Maj. Gen. Paul Stanton has been nominated to be the next director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and commander of Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network, the Pentagon announced Friday.
If confirmed, Stanton will pin on his third star with the new role.
He comes from the Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence where he took command in June 2021 and has been charged with helping the Army with its data problems as well as focusing on the future of cyber and electronic warfare.
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