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Smaller in both size and budget, the Marine Corps often lags behind the Army when it comes to infantry rifles. Early in World War II, Marines were still using bolt-action M1903s from the previous World War, while the Army fielded the semi-automatic M1 Garand. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Marines cleared houses with old M16s sporting 20-inch barrels, while soldiers collapsed the stocks of their handier M4 carbines.
This time, however, will be different. When it comes to the Army’s adoption of the M7 rifle, the Marine Corps has decided not to follow suit.

A former U.S. Air Force major and experienced fighter pilot has been arrested on federal charges accusing him of illegally providing combat training to pilots in China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., 65, also known by his call sign “Runner,” was taken into custody Wednesday in Jeffersonville, Indiana, shortly after returning to the United States from China in early February 2026. Brown, a U.S.

Over nearly 30 years in the Navy, I learned how to solve problems.
I started as an aviation electrician’s mate, fixing aircraft on the flight line. I later drove warships as a surface warfare officer. Eventually, I transitioned into public affairs, serving in multiple combat zones, working with foreign militaries, and on joint staffs where policy, law, and strategy collided daily.
Fixing airplanes teaches systems thinking. Driving warships teaches accountability under pressure.

Summary and Key Points: Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, a defense expert and former US Army Infantry officer, recounts the legendary “time-travel” flight of SR-71 pilot David Peters.

-Flying from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa to Beale Air Force Base in California, Peters and co-pilot Ed Bethert utilized the Blackbird’s Mach 3.32 speed and the International Date Line to land 17.5 hours before their scheduled departure time.

“A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.” The characters in Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? fine-tune their mental and emotional states with the “Penfield Mood Organ,” a device named after neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, known for his research on electrical brain stimulation. This fictional apparatus remarkably resembles modern non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation (neuromodulation) and its potential for cognitive enhancement.