The senior enlisted leader of a major Air Force training base was removed from his position after an investigation, officials at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi said Thursday.
Chief Master Sgt. Michael Venning was removed from his position as the command chief of the 81st Training Wing at Keesler on Sept. 23, 2024.
Col. Billy Pope, 81st Training Wing commander, found that results of a command investigation of Venning “warranted the removal,” base officials said in a statement sent to Task & Purpose.
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In 2016, Michael Poznansky wrote “The Ordinary and Unique Russia’s Electoral Information Warfare Game,” where he argued that while Russia has consistently interfered in elections globally, the unique circumstances of the Donald Trump–Hillary Clinton election created a singular opportunity for the Russian government to interfere in a U.S. presidential election. In the wake of years of continued interference attempts, we invited Michael back to reflect on his article. Read more below.
The Army is back to meeting its recruiting goals, but with recruits that are skewing older than they used to and who often need academic or fitness help before boot camp, officials said Thursday.
With a new focus on those two groups, the Army exceeded its fiscal year 2024 recruiting goal for enlisted soldiers with just over 55,300 recruits, a rebound after two years of misses.
Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis, commander of Army Recruiting Command, told reporters that the Army’s average recruit is now 22 years, 4 months old and still “going up.
The US has given the green light for the sale of Stinger missiles to Egypt, with the aim of reinforcing the Middle Eastern partner.
LONDON — Distributed Spectrum Inc., headquartered in New York City, was tapped to deliver advanced sensing to identify Indo-Pacific threats as the U.S.-based winner of the first-ever AUKUS Electronic Warfare Challenge, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Thursday.
During the trilateral security partnership’s third ministerial meet-up unfolding in London this week, defense leadership from each of the participating nations unveiled the companies from their respective hubs who came out on top of this new innovation contest.
The US State Department has announced the transfer of $920m in Foreign Military Financing to Romania, on Nato’ Eastern Flank.
Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Carter Malkasian’s recent article on “America’s crisis of deterrence.” They debate whether recent policy failures are a breakdown of deterrence theory or U.S. policy, and, if so, what to do about them. Chris advocates for the benefits of nuclear power, Melanie expresses excitement about French spies, and Zack commends semiconductor producers for delivering on the CHIPS Act. Episode Reading Carter Malkasian, “America’s Crisis of Deterrence: How to Adapt on Old Theory to New Realities,” Foreign Affairs, September 20, 2024.
Like clockwork, the mainstream media and our broken medical establishment is once again breaking out their tried and true scare tactics regarding COVID and the upcoming seasonal flu season. According to USA Today,
As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants.
A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly across multiple countries, including the U.S.
Scripps Research’s Outbreak.info page, last updated on Sept. 5, reported 95 XEC cases across 12 U.S. states and 15 different countries.
LONDON — The AUKUS alliance is open to further expanding its Pillar 2 capability areas to encompass more emerging technology categories for strategic acceleration, two senior defense officials told DefenseScoop.
The news comes as defense leaders from the U.S., U.K., and Australia are gathering in London on Thursday to participate in the trilateral security partnership’s third official ministerial meetings, since its launch in 2021.
The Vietnam War was a wild time and the last war in which American citizens were drafted into service. Young men were pulled from school, jobs, or straight from their high school graduations to go tp Vietnam. With them, they brought their love for beer — some of whom remembered home by painting their helicopter rocket pods to resemble the beers they’d left behind.
“We were young guys,” said Jim Koch, a former pilot in a battalion whose UH-1s took to the skies of Vietnam oversized Coors and Budweiser cans on their sides. “At 21 years old, I was one of the older pilots.