A florida sheriff fired the deputy that shot and killed Air Force special operations aircrew member senior airman Roger Fortson.Photo courtesy Fortson family.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson at his apartment on May 3 has been fired, the sheriff’s office announced on Friday. Deputy Eddie Duran was fired after an administrative investigation found his use of deadly force was “not objectionably reasonable,” a news release from the sheriff’s office says.
“The objective facts of the administrative investigation concluded that Mr.
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Screenshot of a video showing an Israeli soldier leading an American soldier in a Jewish prayer. Though filmed on the Gaza pier, U.S. official say troops assigned to the relief mission are holding to U.S. promises. Video from @colliveofficial on Instagram.
Capping a tumultuous week around the war in Gaza, President Biden proposed a new ceasefire Friday between Israel and Hamas while U.S. officials confirmed that the U.S. Army-built cargo pier on the Gaza beach will need another week of repairs after breaking apart in bad weather.
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The Department of Defense is set to make more moves in the coming months to bring new vendors and applications into its Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) architecture.
On Thursday, the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office announced a new initiative called Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories.
Retired Adm. Robert Burke, who served as the vice chief of naval operations, faces federal bribery charges over a $500,00-per-year post-retirement job. US Navy photo.
A former Admiral who was once the Navy’s No. 2-ranking sailor and served as one of NATO’s most senior commanders was arrested Friday on federal bribery charges.
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The 2024 Bilderberg conference is currently taking place Thursday, May 30 to Sunday, June 2 in Madrid Spain.
General David Petraeus, (USA, Ret) is attending the annual event for the fourth time. Petraeus was the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
This is part three of a three-part series examining how the Army is approaching electronic warfare and applying its “transforming in contact” concept — which uses deployments and troop rotations to test new equipment — to EW. You can find part one here and part two here.
PHILADELPHIA — With a variety of dynamic threats across the world, the Army is coming to terms with the fact that units across theaters will have different electronic warfare equipment based on region.
The best evidence has emerged of renewed work on a land-based version of China’s FC-31/J-35 stealth fighter. Progressively clearer photos of one of Shenyang’s prototype fighters seem to reveal key features different from those found on the carrier-based J-35, on which development had been more recently focused. This may well tie in with official Pakistani plans to acquire a version of the jet but raises questions about China’s own plans for a potential land-based variant.
Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Marcin Platek.
About 100 U.S. Marines will come ashore at Normandy, France next month as a tribute to the Allied troops who landed there 80 years ago in one of the most decisive battles of World War II.
The United States and other Western Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 to begin the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. German resistance was especially fierce at Omaha Beach, where U.S. troops suffered 3,600 casualties, including 770 killed.
The British Army’s new Challenger 3 main battle tank will see the introduction of the L55 main gun, a type operated across Nato.
The Netherlands has become the first nation to declare that its F-35 stealth fighters are now fully responsible for the nuclear strike role, something that had been expected since the aircraft was fully certified to carry the B61-12 thermonuclear bomb earlier this year. Coming amid repeated nuclear saber-rattling from Russia, the development is an important one in the context of NATO’s nuclear deterrence posture in Europe.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) announced that the F-35A will fully take over the Dutch nuclear role tomorrow, June 1.