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The US State Department has approved two potential foreign military sales (FMS) to Morocco.

“Snow has fallen on the mountains you dreamed of.” This Turkish saying describes a situation where something that was long hoped for or dreamed of has finally become reality, but it comes with unexpected challenges, risks, or disappointments. And this seems to be the situation in front of Turkey after Syrian rebel forces put an end to the 50-year-long Assad regime.

President-elect Donald Trump announced a slew of selections Sunday for key Pentagon positions, including deputy secretary of defense and undersecretaries for the acquisition and sustainment, research and engineering and policy directorates.
Trump’s pick for deputy SecDef, billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg, is the co-founder, co-CEO and chief investment officer for global investment and private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. He has a net worth of approximately $5 billion, according to Forbes. Unlike many previous nominees for the Pentagon’s No.

Troops living in barracks will be getting free Internet in the near future, after Congress approved the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. 
The sweeping $895.2 billion defense bill includes authorization from Congress for the military to roll out high-speed wireless Internet access for troops living in unaccompanied barracks.

The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, better known as the Warthog, is a famously capable close-air support platform. Boasting a low stall speed, durable airframe, and ability to operate from short and/or unpaved runways, the Warthog is the only production-built aircraft flown by the U.S. Air Force that was designed specifically for the CAS mission.

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The U.S. Navy operating in the red Sea apparently just shot down one of America’s own aircraft – an F-18 that had been operating against the Iranian-backed Houthi Rebels in Yemen.
The crew of two was recovered alive, with one sustaining light injuries.

Calls for accountability screamed over X.

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A U.S. Navy cruiser shot down a Navy F/A-18 fighter jet over the Red Sea early Sunday morning, U.S. Central Command said. 
The F/A-18 was shot by weapons from the guided-missile cruiser the USS Gettysburg after taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on Dec. 22. Both Navy aviators were able to eject from the fighter jet and were recovered safely. One of the two sustained minor injuries, according to CENTCOM.

Despite a major push by the military and Department of Veterans Affairs to address and reduce suicide among former service members in 2022, the number of veteran suicides that year did not drop. 
6,407 veterans killed themselves in 2022, three more than in 2021, according to a new report released by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The findings looked at information from 2022, the most recent year that data was available. Although an increase, it is a far smaller increase year over year compared to 2021, which saw 114 more suicides than in 2020, ending two years of declining numbers.

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NBC News just put out an article that says Trump is ‘rethinking firing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, USAF General C. Q. Brown.
They got along well, and Trump is “changing his tone” on Brown, the two people said, and it now appears Trump will not fire him right away, wrote NBC.
Brown “congratulated Trump on his election and made it clear he was ready to work with the president,” one of the people familiar with the conversation said, adding that “[Trump] liked that.

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Letter received by an Army veteran and parent. Some details removed to protect the author’s son.
I am a 6-year U.S. Army veteran and served in __ Ranger Battalion and __ and __ SFGA.
My son has an application submitted to USMA West Point to enter plebe year class of 20__.
The third candidate question he was required to answer for his candidate packet is the following:
“3. West Point and the Army are committed to the idea that respect for others and an understanding of diversity are important leadership traits.