Clarence “Bud” Anderson during World War II, next to his P-51 Mustang “Old Crow.” (photo courtesy the American Air Museum/Imperial War Museum).
One of the last masters of the air has died. Brig. Gen. Clarence Emil “Bud” Anderson, credited with downing 16 enemy planes over Europe in World War II, died this past week at his home in Auburn, California. He was 102.
“On 17 May 2024 at 5:29pm, WWII Triple Ace Brigadier General Clarence E “Bud” Anderson passed away in his home peacefully in his sleep surround [sic] by his family.
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Jaggert Oakes in Germany in 2021. (photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hammond/U.S. Army).
A U.S. Army soldier stationed at Camp Humphreys in South Korea died on Wednesday, May 14.
Spc. Jaggert Oakes, 22, was found unresponsive in his barracks at the base, according to an Army release. He was taken to a hospital on base and pronounced dead at 10:23 a.m. local time.
At the time, Oakes was serving as a human resources specialist assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade.
Staff Sgt. Daniel Smith, Sgt. William Taroc, and Staff Sgt. Henry Davis, all members of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, earned “ace” status after collectively downing 28 drones. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs).
The U.S. Army has three new aces. They aren’t part of a helicopter crew, but rather artillery soldiers who took out more than two dozen enemy drones while deployed to the Middle East.
The Army’s latest aces are Staff Sgt. Daniel Smith, Sgt. William Taroc, and Staff Sgt.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is divisive, as it emphasizes differences based on race, ethnicity, biological sex, gender identities, etc., which is opposed to the time-tested, traditional military culture emphasizing unity, teamwork, selflessness, sacrifice, and assimilation into the warrior ethos.
May 1969, a commercial bus full of sleepy recruits stopped during darkness at Fort Ord, CA. Two Drill Instructors (DIs) jumped on the bus and started screaming, “get off my bus, you dirtbags, and line up outside.
A data privacy amendment buried within the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill will allow private aircraft owners to fully block aircraft registration information. Concealing this information will make establishing who owns private aircraft much more difficult, and render aircraft harder to track.
President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) re-authorization bill into law yesterday. Last week, it passed a vote in the Senate 88-4, before going on to pass a vote in the House of Representatives by 387 to 26 on Wednesday.
The organizational structure of the United States Marine Corps’ Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1) has mostly stayed the same since its creation in 2016. However, one big change came in 2020 with the creation of the Tactics and Integration Department (T&I). The birth of the department was the direct result of the planning guidance put forward by former Marine Commandant Berger, known as ‘Force Design 2030.’
To make Force Design 2030 happen, VMX-1 needed to make sure all Marine assets could communicate and fight together.
A new proposal from House lawmakers could set the Defense Department on a path to forming the U.S. government’s first Center of Excellence explicitly designed to drive enterprise-wide, military-specific quantum computing applications.
Quantum computing is part of the emerging and potentially disruptive technology field of quantum information science, or QIS, which broadly applies the laws of physics and complex phenomena happening at atomic and subatomic levels to store, transmit, manipulate, compute or measure information.
On May 2, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall boarded a modified F-16 fighter jet equipped with specialized artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities that enabled the aircraft to autonomously fly and perform tactical maneuvers against human pilots.
Ukraine launched a large-scale, long-range drone attack against oil infrastructure within Russia’s borders. Sevastopol, home of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, in the Russian-occupied Crimea peninsula, was also targeted. The attacks come a day after it was confirmed that Ukraine had destroyed several Russian combat aircraft in a missile strike on Crimea’s Belbek Air Base, as you can read about here.
While the exact numbers cannot be independently verified, this appears to be the largest-ever coordinated drone assault on Russia by Ukraine.
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