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Aircraft carriers from the U.S. and Indian navies sailed together to lead the second phase of the Malabar 2020 exercise, conducting advanced air defense drills with their respective MiG 29K and F-18 fighters. In 2021, American and Indian guided-missile destroyers worked closely together, alongside the USS Carl Vinson and Japanese and Australian frigates and destroyers. […]
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Movies such as Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Rain Man, Minority Report, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Days of Thunder, *batteries not included and The Meg have one thing in common: film producer and Marine, Gerald R. Molen. Molen began his career in the movie business by changing tires on studio trucks. He moved on to hauling set pieces, horses for westerns and further items to productions. He dug deeper into transportation in the industry and was the transportation supervisor or coordinator on Breakheart Pass, The White Buffalo and Breakout in the 1970s.

Machine fighter. That’s what the African locals called Green Beret CW2 Nick Lavery on his deployments after returning to his Special Forces team as an amputee. After his life-threatening injury, the Green Beret was told being an operator would never happen again. 
He proved everyone wrong. 
Patriotic Roots
But first, he was a Boston native who loved football. “I don’t come from a very robust military family background at all. I had an uncle that was in for a real brief amount of time. My grandfather was in the very tail end of World War II.

If you’re like the rest of us, you’re always on the lookout for the best day to make a fresh start. When the calendar turns over a new month, it’s probably even more on your mind. Maybe today’s the day you’ve decided to get real about the changes you want to make in your life. From adding in more movement to your life to refining your diet, your options are truly endless. But where should you start? And how can you make sure that the changes you make really stick? Fortunately for you, plenty of veteran-owned wellness companies are here to help.

HII, one of the leading U.S.-based shipbuilders, is capitalizing on Navy requirement updates and rapidly maturing 3D-printing technologies to save time and money engineering and maintaining some of the military’s most powerful ships.
At a time when supply chain challenges are causing significant delays in manufacturing across the globe, the company is applying additive manufacturing advancements to 3D print some integral parts it needs to build platforms by the Navy’s deadlines.

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In 1977, with the Cold War in full swing, the U.K. Royal Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Swiftsure (S-126) slipped right into the heart of a large-scale Soviet Northern Fleet exercise in the Barents Sea. The British submarine penetrated undetected through the layered escort screens of destroyers and frigates and meticulously approached the Russian aircraft carrier Kiev. The submarine recorded extremely valuable acoustic signatures and took incredible underwater periscope pictures of the Soviet carrier’s hull and propellers.

The Navy is considering the possibility of introducing air-launched hypersonic weapons into the fleet, although that thinking isn’t as far along as its plans for deploying sea-launched variants, according to the service’s top official.
The Navy aims to install hypersonic missiles on Zumwalt-class destroyers by 2025 and Virginia-class submarines by the end of the decade as it looks to acquire new “conventional prompt strike” (CPS) capabilities.

The RAW, or rifleman’s assault weapon could have brought enhanced firepower to the rifle squad. But it was never adopted.
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Immediately following the glitzy rollout of the B-21 Raider at Northrop Grumman’s secure facility at Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, the hot takes started piling up. “It’s just an updated B-2 Spirit” and “B-2 2.0, big deal” quickly became par for the course on social media. I received a ton of inquiries from people genuinely asking if this is the great leap forward it was billed as or if the B-21 appeared to be just a ‘rehashed Spirit.’
The answer to those types of questions is, well, complicated, but not in a bad way.

Recently, Hunter Brown, a United States Air Force Academy cadet and member of the intercollegiate football team, died of a cardiac arrest while walking to class.  Tragic events like these are becoming all too common.  It is not acceptable to automatically regard these events as normal and categorically deny that they are not related to mRNA vaccines.  Those of us in the graduate community mourn Hunter’s death and extend our deep-felt condolences to his family and friends.