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Marines assigned to the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, recently fired their weapons in self-defense after they were attacked by protestors who had breached the facility, a U.S. official told Task & Purpose.
Reuters first reported that the Marines had fired their weapons when protesters tried to storm the consulate on Sunday following the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who was killed the day prior during air and missile strikes against Iran launched by Israel and the United States.

The Army took another step Monday in its journey to beef up its communications and electromagnetic spectrum capabilities, releasing a solicitation for a “radio frequency-delivered effects” platform that can be easily transported and employed by troops on the battlefield.
The service in recent years has been pushing to enhance its EMS prowess and ability to share data, including via its “transforming-in-contact” initiative and Next Generation Command and Control effort.
The RF Delivered Effects Platform – Portable 2.

From the outset of the campaign, the US and Israel almost immediately achieved air superiority, exposing issues with Iran’s air defences.

In a letter addressed to U.S. troops the same day that American forces began striking targets inside Iran, the top commander in the Middle East said that the military was moving from “deterrence into active combat” and that those involved in the operation, dubbed Epic Fury, would “change the course of human history.”
The letter, dated Feb. 28 and signed “C.B. Cooper II,” was written by Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Task & Purpose confirmed.

It was supposed to be a standard intercept. In the pitch-black maelstrom over the Kuwaiti desert, three F-15E Strike Eagles from the 335th Fighter Squadron were hunting for Iranian suicide drones. They’re the low-budget, flying, exploding lawnmowers that Iran had been lobbing by the hundreds into the region.
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But the F-15s, multi-role aircraft designed to own every inch of the sky, didn’t fall to Iranian steel; instead, they fell to our own allies.

The Italian Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems OneArc a contract to upgrade the Italian Army’s virtual training environment.

The six American flyers who ejected from F-15E Strike Eagles over Kuwait on Sunday experienced a moment that pilots pray never happens but train for as if they know it will.
The pilots and weapons officers all ejected from their two-seat fighters, U.S. Central Command said Sunday, after being shot down over Kuwait by U.S. Patriot missiles fired by Kuwaiti air defense forces. All six flyers safely parachuted to the ground, where they were reported to be unhurt. 
The fact that all six flyers survived was a bright spot in the otherwise disastrous series of mishaps.

Veterans organizations in Washington, D.C. came together to nominate two prominent veterans to the U.S. Department of Education’s upcoming rulemaking committee on higher education accreditation. This committee is essentially a formal advisory group to develop or revise the federal regulations that govern how accreditation works.
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Amid burgeoning tensions, President Dwight Eisenhower went before the United Nations General Assembly on December 8, 1953, and called for peace.
Eisenhower’s speech came at an especially fraught time during the Cold War. The previous year, the United States tested a hydrogen bomb in the Northwestern Pacific, resulting in an island’s obliteration. The Soviets followed with their first successful H-bomb test in August 1953.
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If not rattled, Eisenhower was justifiably concerned as he stood before the UN.

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punishment and pruning are perfectly valid…and often the best option