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Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David Wolfe wears a physical reminder of why he chose to make the service his career.
Fastened inside his service coat is an Air Force pin that belonged to his father, who served as a combat photographer during World War II and later joined the Air Force when it became an independent military branch.

While the Russo-Ukrainian War dominates attention in Eastern Europe, China is quietly expanding its influence in the region. As NATO strains under growing internal pressures and the European Union confronts unresolved questions about its future, Beijing’s capacity to project power in Europe in pursuit of its own interests is becoming an increasingly consequential force in the continent’s politics and economics.

The Army is loosening its grip on recruiting waivers for mental health and misconduct, putting those decisions in the hands of the commanders who oversee street-level recruiting.
On Jan. 22, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll rescinded a 2020 directive that gave his office the authority to approve and deny waivers for recruits with mental health conditions or misconduct that would bar them from enlisting.

For three decades, the official word on Gulf War Illness (GWI) was a collective shrug from the Department of Defense. When you came home from Kuwait or Iraq in ’91 with a brain that felt like it was wrapped in a wet woobie, a stomach that digested food harder than a Sarlac Pit, and joints that cracked like chemlights every time you climbed out of a chair, the medical records usually just called it “undiagnosed.

The Pentagon recently tapped California-based tech company LILT to supply artificial intelligence-powered translation options to military forces worldwide.
According to a press release viewed by DefenseScoop before its public release Tuesday, the Defense Department’s Chief Digital and AI Office awarded LILT a flexible other transaction contract to expand its platform for military domain-specific vocabularies, after it was prototyped and proven via the Defense Innovation Unit.

RTX’s Raytheon has completed a ballistic test of the US Army’s NGSRI, the missile intended to replace the Stinger surface-to-air system.

More than a week after federal immigration agents killed a Veterans Affairs nurse in Minneapolis, a staffer at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center says patients visiting the hospital have asked why there is nearly no sign that Alex Pretti worked there.
“I’ve had veterans a little surprised there was not something at the front entrance acknowledging Alex,” said a VA staffer at the hospital. “I understand the reasons local leadership feels they cannot respond, and it stings.

Col. James M. Valpiani announced as the new dean of the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. (Courtesy of the Air Force Academy)

Col James M Valpiani has been named as the new dean of faculty at the United States Air Force Academy, my alma mater.
This is a very positive step.
Col Valpiani is a warrior pilot with nearly 100 combat missions. He is a scholar, an astronautical engineer and a test pilot.
We could not think of a better choice to fill this position at the Academy.

If you spend enough time around military hospitals, you develop a healthy cynicism for the word “breakthrough.” Every year, the Pentagon promises us game-changing technology that usually amounts to a new rifle nobody asked for, that is five pounds heavier, requires knowledge of advanced engineering to operate, and probably runs on batteries for some reason.

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