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Last May, an Air Force captain at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington was convicted of disrespecting her superior officer, Col. Travis Woodworth — specifically for hanging up on him during a phone call. 
The convicted airman, Capt. Heather Donovan of the 1st Air Support Operations Group, was reprimanded and docked $2,160 pay for two months, according to Air Force records. She was already voluntarily separating from the Air Force at the time of the offense.
Donovan faced three other charges at the court-martial.

While much of the public talk about artificial intelligence has been centered around ChatGPT, AI art, and whatever else is popular on TikTok these days, the U.S. military has quietly been developing intelligence that can pilot an F-16 in simulators. Now, the Department of Defense has taken the AI out of the simulator and made it work in a real F-16 Fighting Falcon. 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, program known as Air Combat Evolution (ACE), began work in 2019 to create scalable, human-level artificial intelligence that could be autonomous in air combat.

A popular historical anecdote is the design of the famous M1 carbine by convicted murderer David Marshall Williams. He’s so connected with the weapon that a movie was made about his invention of the M1 titled Carbine Williams, a nickname he adopted. However, while Williams developed the short-stroke gas piston used in the carbine, credit for the weapon’s invention is owed much more to Winchester employees Fred Humiston and William Roemer.

The M1 carbine was famously used by paratroopers during WWII (U.S.

The Burma Campaign is an often overlooked front of WWII, but it’s an area filled with interesting stories and incredible heroics. The Battle of Ramree Island might be the most interesting story of the war. For just about six weeks in the beginning of 1945, 6,000 British and Indian forces invaded the 100 square mile island with the goal of capturing its port and airfield from its 1,000 Japanese defenders. Naval and air forces strafed, bombed and shelled the Japanese before the British landings.

Evolving from instructional films produced internally, the U.S. Army now uses modern war movies as teaching aids in professional military instruction. Being able to reference popular media puts instructors and students on common ground and makes lessons more effective. One movie that is commonly referenced is We Were Soldiers and its depiction of the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War.

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WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – The United States will announce a new military aid package for Ukraine on Friday, worth roughly $400 million and comprised…