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AeroVironment recently unveiled an uncrewed electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft system being pitched for the US Army’s long-range reconnaissance

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The Coast Guard released its first operational posture statement to highlight the many missions it is required to accomplish in a time of stretched resources, a senior service…

Justin Matejka, RealClearDefense

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Iran says Israel’s airstrikes on military targets in three provinces caused limited damage, after U.S. officials had lobbied against attacks on nuclear sites.

Guest post by Court Anderson, Editor of TheManhattan.press
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. created a ruckus online when he shared his thoughts about an updated Dept. of Defense directive. Yesterday, in a speech at Turning Point Action, RFK Jr. claimed that the directive, designated 5240.01, authorizes the use of deadly force by the US military on its own citizens.

REPORTED: RFK Jr is referencing a recent update to the DOD Directive 5240.01 pic.twitter.com/8SJ1nTelJZ
— Midnight Crier (@prepperdaves) October 24, 2024

The blowback from mainstream media was unanimous and swift.

My husband was deploying for a year with a MiTT Team (Military Transition Team). He had been assigned to the unit as an Individual Augment. That meant he was picked out of his home unit and temporarily assigned to a new unit. This team worked up for the deployment an hour away from our home. For the three months leading up to the deployment my husband had to drive an hour both ways and often stay overnight for training events. 
I started mentally transitioning to him being gone before he ever left.

This is Chapter 2 in the Transition Memoir. Catch up here.
If your mom asks you in the hospital room after delivering birth how you are feeling and you refer back to the fact you survived your deployment to Afghanistan and being a mom shouldn’t be a problem, your identity might be wrapped up in your military service. I was weeks away from leaving the military, decision made, path laid, but I was still clinging to my identity of military service. 
I was just a few months out from leaving the military when my first son was born. I left the military before he was four months old.

When I was diagnosed with cancer last year, there were so many things I wasn’t prepared for. One of them was the amount of questions I would get about my diagnosis, treatment, plans and even my insurance. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions and my responses. Everyone’s journey is different and some people choose to share, some overshare, and some don’t want to discuss it at all. I’m an open book, and I try to educate others as much as I can.

A former U.S. soldier was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering a pregnant, 19-year-old soldier on an American Army base in Germany more than two decades ago, officials said.
The 2001 cold case of Pfc. Amanda Gonzales was put to rest in May when a jury found Shannon L. Wilkerson guilty of second-degree murder.
“Evidence introduced at trial indicated that Wilkerson feared he was the father of Gonzales’ unborn child and that her pregnancy would interfere with his military career and his marriage to another soldier on the base. Wilkerson was a member of the U.S.