Marine Pvt. Jamil Winston Jr. (left) and his wife Marine Pfc. JuliMarie Winston (right) graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot on May 17, 2024 after going through boot camp together. (Photo courtesy of Jamil C. Winston).
Marine Corps privates Jamil Winston Jr. and JuliMarie Winston are a husband and wife who prove that the couple that trains together can stay together. Both graduated on May 17 from boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, just in time for their first wedding anniversary in June.
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A series of imagery confirms that the widely used Sea Baby uncrewed surface vessel (USV), or drone boat, has been equipped with Grad-series artillery rockets. The rocket-armed boat has reportedly already been used to successfully engage Russian vessels. Once again, the development demonstrates that Ukraine is exploring using its growing fleet of USVs for missions beyond one-way kamikaze attacks, although there remain questions about the overall feasibility of the adaptation.
A rear view of a Sea Baby USV launching a Grad rocket while chained down during tests on land.
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin reassigned Sergei Shoigu from defense minister to secretary of the national security council, effectively dismissing him from his post of twelve years. Putin picked Andrei Belousov, an economist and technocrat with no military experience, to take his place.
The Pentagon set a goal of implementing a zero-trust cybersecurity architecture across the department by the end of fiscal 2027, but now, officials have been asked to go significantly faster, according to a senior official.
Under the zero-trust concept, managers are supposed to assume that networks are already compromised by adversaries, meaning they must constantly monitor and authenticate users and their devices as they move through a network.
The U.S. Army’s future fleet of High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) intelligence-gathering business jets are set to use a radar the development of which originally began as an upgrade for the U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane. This comes as the U.S. Air Force is now looking to retire all of its iconic U-2s in 2026.
A Pentagon budget reprogramming document, which was approved in February and subsequently posted online, confirms the inclusion of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System-2B (ASARS-2B) in the HADES sensor suite.
Richard Brooks worked as a writer, director, novelist and producer. His films include Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry (he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay), In Cold Blood and Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Brooks joined the Corps in 1943 while World War II was raging on. His service was mostly spent with the Marine Corps film unit in Quantico, VA.
He sometimes went to Camp Pendleton in California as well. Brooks learned about filmmaking while in uniform and wrote a novel, The Brick Foxhole, during his service. He wrote and edited documentaries while in the Corps.
China, Russia and India are projected to eat into the US’ outsized share of global electronic warfare spending in the coming years.
The Department of Defense has awarded more than 80 task orders for its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability with a total value of more than $600 million, according to a senior official.
JWCC is the Pentagon’s high-priority enterprise cloud effort that replaced the aborted Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) initiative. Google, Oracle, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft were all awarded under the $9 billion JWCC program in December 2022 and are competing for task orders.
The initiative is a key element of the department’s push for digital modernization.
Algerian defence spending soars in response to instability in the Sahel since 2020 and will continue to do so.
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