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Army Green Berets with specialized mountaineering training were attempting to reach a site on Mount Rainier in Washington where the wreckage of a Navy EA-18G Growler was spotted. The plane went down two days ago on a training flight, the Navy said, and the jet’s 2-man crew remained unaccounted for after rescuers spotted the crash site early Thursday amid bad weather and mountainous terrain.
The Whidbey Island-based EA-18G crashed on Oct. 15 during a flight the Navy called a “routine training mission.

When Jenna Malone’s husband, Isaac, returned home from his deployment with PTSD and a TBI, she stepped in as his full-time caretaker, but their marriage began to unravel. To make matters even worse, Jenna developed secondary PTSD. She was juggling work, three kids under the age of 5, and caring for her husband amid his suicide attempts and his refusal to get help.
“It took me a long time to realize what secondary PTSD was and how it was impacting me,” Malone told We Are The Mighty. “One of the most helpful things on our journey was a program called Warrior Care Network.

Sometimes, the sweetness of life is found in the simplest of things—like waffles for dinner or cheering at a high school wrestling match. In the whirlwind of military life, it’s easy to get caught up in the chaos and miss these precious moments. Learning to be present can transform your experience, allowing you to savor the small victories amidst the challenges.
Here are five tips to help military community members, especially spouses, embrace the present and make the most of the moments that matter most.
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This is Chapter 1 in the Transition Memoir. Come back every Thursday to read Amanda Huffman’s story, one chapter at a time.
When people ask me how I decided it was time to leave the military, I tell them I made a list. It isn’t a lie; I did make a list. But it also isn’t the whole story. The easier truth is that I had already decided that military life wouldn’t work for us once we decided to start a family, but there was more to it. There was also hurt and betrayal from those I served with that pushed me to leave. 
I made a list when I got pregnant with my first son.

Host L Todd Wood speaks with ‘Alex’ from Kyiv on the situation in-country. Zelenskiy demands nukes.
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The Marine Corps’ latest flight testing of its jet-powered XQ-58A Valkyrie drone saw the system use common tactical data links to share targeting information with F-35 stealth fighters, according to the service.
The event, which occurred earlier this month during the annual Emerald Flag joint exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, comes as the Corps is conducting research, development, test and evaluation for its Penetrating Affordable Autonomous Collaborative Killer-Portfolio (PAACK-P) program, and the U.S.

By the time new soldiers get to their first unit, they have faced being hunted by a swarm of drones, according to the head of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
The Army has revamped the Forge, which has been the capstone event of basic training for over half a decade, based on lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, Gen. Gary M. Brito told Task & Purpose in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.

Defense Department leadership selected Anduril-made, quiet and modular Ghost-X aerial drones to be quickly mass-produced in the second tranche of the Replicator initiative.
Sources who spoke to DefenseScoop on the condition of anonymity this week confirmed that the uncrewed system was put forward for Replicator 1.2 by the Army’s Medium Range Reconnaissance (MRR) program — and ultimately made the cut.
Replicator was largely conceptualized by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and her team, who first unveiled the initiative in August 2023.

In 2021, Jim Lamson and Jeffrey Lewis wrote “Iranian President Raisi’s Renewed Emphasis on Space Is Likely to Create New Tensions,” which argued that Iran’s prioritization of space under President Raisi could lead to new challenges for the United States. In the wake of President Raisi’s death and the inauguration of his successor, Masoud Pezeshkian, we asked Jim to revisit his article. Read more below.

The Army wants flexible funding from Congress on electronic warfare to more easily move money around programs to focus on priority areas.
Officials are finding from Ukraine’s conflict with Russia that the technology landscape can change in days, not months. As a result, the Army is pitching the need for fiscal nimbleness to be able to make changes to systems on the battlefield or procurement efforts to get soldiers the capabilities they require.