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Pilot and aviator callsigns are the stuff of legend. In fiction, they can be iconic and instantly cool — think “Iceman” and “Maverick,” you know those are great — while in reality there isn’t a guarantee. Sometimes they can be nicknames given to new pilots by more experienced ones, often in jest. Whatever the case, one U.S. Air Force pilot with the callsign “Mullet” got a lot of attention online this week. It wasn’t for any of his actions, it’s because of what he took with him in the skies over the Middle East.

CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 27: Roger Corman present The Grand Prix Award during the closing ceremony during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 27, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images).
Long-time director and producer Roger Corman died on Saturday, May 11 at the age of 98. The director of films such as “The Little Shop of Horrors” and “The House of Usher,” who was seen as one of the greatest B-movie makers in all of Hollywood, was also a Navy veteran.

The gradual reduction is ahead of the type’s withdrawal from service in 2025, although more than 300 vehicles look set to be retained.

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Almost eight decades after a plane crash took their lives, five U.S. Army soldiers are finally being awarded the Purple Heart. 
The five soldiers were among 31 killed 79 years ago when their plane crashed while trying to land in Okinawa. However, for decades only two of the victims of the crash ever received the Purple Heart. The U.S. Army is now working to correct that. On Friday, May 10, these five, all Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii, were posthumously given the award in a ceremony at Pearl Harbor. 
The five — Staff Sgt.

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One of the fighter squadrons that helped shoot down dozens of Iranian missiles last month has some fresh paint honoring those kills. 
F-15E Strike Eagles and their pilots with the Air Force’s 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron returned back to base at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom this week. Amid reunions with family and friends, photos taken on the return show the F-15E’s with new kill markings and paint on the nose of the fuselage.

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Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author’s cut of an essay entitled “Odysseus Lost” that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024.

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The expeditionary sea base USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams (ESB-4) grounded off the western coast of Africa on Thursday, U.S.

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I cannot say I truly understood my time in the Army before I met my wife, Katy.