A boom operator on a KC-135 tanker earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses on recent combat missions, the Air Force confirmed this week, a rare double-award of the military’s top medal for flight.
Staff Sgt. Gabrielle Stallings, a KC-135 boom operator, was one of 15 members of the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron who were presented with DFCs or Bronze Stars for combat flights on March 31, in a ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington.
In all, 12 pilots and boom operators from the squadron were awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses.
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“World of Warships” has been on gamers’ radar for more than a decade now, and the updates just keep getting better. This year has been no exception. In its earliest days, players were abuzz with the idea of being able to fight as the Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz. Today, the roster includes the American battleship Missouri, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the UK’s HMS Hood, and the iconic carrier USS Enterprise.
In 2024, Shaan Shaikh wrote, “Three Visions for NATO Air and Missile Defense,” where he laid out three potential scenarios NATO could take in the next few years to further its air and missile defense capabilities. Two years later, amidst alliance tensions and ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, we asked Shaan to revisit his arguments.Image: Sgt. Mariah Gonzalez via DVIDSIn your 2024 article, you laid out three potential directions NATO could take in the next few years for further developing its air and missile defense capabilities.
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The first casualty of war is always the plan—something the Russian Army relearned the hard way when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Kyiv was supposed to fall in a matter of days. When the shock of Russia’s initial assault subsided, however, the two opposing armies became entrenched in a virtual stalemate. This stalemate has remained more or less unchanged ever since.
World War I devolved in much the same way. The German plan for the war was supposed to take all of six weeks.
U.S. troops carried on one of the Global War On Terror’s most enduring battlefield traditions by downing millions of energy drinks during the Iran war.
The topic came up during Wednesday’s Pentagon news briefing as Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided reporters with a string of final tallies for U.S. military operations against Iran following President Donald Trump’s Tuesday announcement of a two-week ceasefire. Among statistics on battlefield targets struck, Caine addressed what troops had been chugging.
The British Army has received two Airbus H145 Jupiter HC Mk2 helicopters in Brunei, part of a £148m ($196m) Ministry of Defence (MoD) initiative to renew the UK’s rotary fleet.
The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire today (8 April) with talks starting in Islamabad on Friday 10 April.
Dieter Dengler was so poor while growing up in Germany that he and his brothers picked through garbage for scraps.
Desperate to escape his impoverished circumstances, Dengler was willing to go anywhere. He was in high school when he saw a magazine that spotlighted U.S. military pilots. It seemed like a great opportunity to Dengler, who immigrated to America in 1957 and enlisted in the Air Force.
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Dengler spent four years in the Air Force without learning to fly. During that time, though, he became a U.S.
Watch live as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine hold a press conference in the Pentagon Press Briefing Room.
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