The Dining-In is a military custom that predates the Air Force, the military, even the United States. There are many versions of the same even, whether that branch calls it Mess Night, Regimental Dinner, or something else. Though other branches hold these, this is one of the oldest traditions of America’s second-youngest branch of military service.
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This most traditional form of Air Force unit social events is held at any unit level—Wing, Group, or Squadron.

The Chief of Staff’s Bible is a tradition literally as old as the Air Force itself, but one very few have ever even heard of.
On his first days in office, the general in charge of the newly formed United States Air Force bought a Bible that’s been a part of every swearing in ceremony for Chiefs of Staff for nearly 80 years.
And in it contains the signature of all of the Air Force’s top general officers—the Chiefs.
“No documented history of the Bible exists,” Ann Stefanek, Media Operations Officer at Air Force headquarters told We Are The Mighty.

An army might run on its stomach, but let’s be real: what’s actually going in its stomach is equally important. Armies don’t run on bread alone. When Napoleon said that famous line, his army was running on wine, brandy, and vinegar. Luckily (or unluckily, for those who love a good pickleback) military food and beverage has evolved.
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“I am proud that the U.S. Army and Philippine Army have the capability to conduct training meticulously,” Col.

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Just before midnight on Nov. 24, 2025, New Castle County police officers conducting a routine property check in Wilmington’s Canby Park spotted a white Toyota Tacoma parked after hours. What initially appeared to be a standard traffic stop uncovered a detailed terror plot. The suspect — a University of Delaware student — was found in possession of a converted machine gun, more than 100 rounds of ammunition, body armor, and a handwritten notebook mapping out a planned attack on the campus police department, including entry points, escape routes, and the name of a specific officer.

Three days into the Iran war, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the quiet part out loud: The Revolutionary Guard’s Qods Force has long carried out plots around the world and now intended to deploy those capabilities against the U.S. homeland. The United States, a Qods Force statement carried on Iranian television warned, “will no longer be safe” as the Qods Force targets Americans within the homeland and abroad. “The enemy should know that their happy days are over and they will no longer be safe anywhere in the world, not even in their own homes.” U.S.

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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has moved the new Z-20T assault helicopter into air-ground training, reflecting a growing reliance on the new aircraft which is poised to revolutionise its airborne assault capabilities. Developed as the first heavyweight combat helicopter type in Chinese service, the Z-20T which was designed to complement the Z-10 attack helicopter, and made its first public appearance during a military paradeon September 3, 2025. The aircraft combines an airlift capability with integrated firepower in a single airframe.

In late April Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty confirmed that a review of plans to procure 88 F-35 fighters from the United States remained ongoing, despite this review originally having been scheduled to be concluded six months prior around September 2025, with with no timeline given for a final decision. While McGuinty noted that procurements from non-U.S. sources were under consideration, at a time when public opinion and much of the political leadership have supported reducing reliance on the U.S.

The Turkish defence sector has unveiled the country’s first type of intercontinental ballistic missile, the Yildirimhan, which is expected to transform the country’s long range strike capabilities and those of NATO more broadly. The missile has an estimated range of around 6,000 kilometres, placing it at the boundary between intermediate-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and can reportedly achieve speeds of over Mach 20. It is described as using a four-engine configuration and liquid propulsion based on nitrogen tetroxide.

Leonel Garciga left his role as the Army’s chief information officer last week, the service announced Tuesday.
His departure from the job had been anticipated. Federal News Network previously reported that he was expected to exit in June.
Garciga, a Navy veteran who has served in the federal government across intelligence, information technology and engineering sectors for nearly three decades, was selected as the Army’s CIO in July 2023.

Marine Corps leaders are considering making Scouts a Primary Military Occupational Specialty, similar to Machine Gunners and Mortarmen, said a senior Marine commander in charge of training.
Currently, Scout platoons are designated within infantry and light armor reconnaissance units and manned by Marines trained in traditional PMOS.
Marine Maj. Gen. Michael A. Brooks, who leads Training Command, laid out the concept for a Scout PMOS on Monday. 
“There is interest in turning our scout MOS, which is 0315, into a Primary MOS,” Brooks said on Monday.

The U.S. military is fusing sensors, surveillance platforms and manned and unmanned air and watercraft into a networked, AI-enabled command and control architecture as part of a large-scale campaign to retain nonstop overwatch and localized control over the Strait of Hormuz early into Project Freedom, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.
During a Pentagon press conference Tuesday, the top U.S.

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A retired Air Force fighter pilot accused of teaching American tactics to Chinese airmen allegedly drove erratically to avoid an FBI tail, kept a fake passport, and deleted messages from foreign pilots to cover his tracks, according to recent filings in federal court.
New court documents shed light on how Gerald E. Brown, 65, allegedly intended to retire in China after several years on a $250,000-per-year job teaching Chinese military pilots, prosecutors say, which he also hoped would give him a chance of “going fast again and pulling g’s.

The Pentagon for many years has repeatedly failed to pass a clean department-wide audit, but senior officials are hoping that new AI capabilities can help them get over the hump.
The department is under pressure to achieve results.
“We’ve got a mandate. Congress passed a law that says that we need to get a clean opinion by our FY28 agency-wide financial statements.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was an entirely avoidable, but potentially deadly period in Cold War history. In 1946 George Kennan, an American diplomat in the Soviet Union, sent a telegram to President Harry S. Truman’s State Department about his view of the USSR’s aggression. It would come to define the United States’ relationship with the Soviets for the next 45 years.
Kennan wrote that the Soviets were “impervious to logic of reason… highly sensitive to the logic of force.” This outlook became the cornerstone of U.S.

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The war with Iran has once again raised questions about Washington’s ability to prioritize its interests in East Asia and particularly to manage intensifying competition with Beijing. Furthermore, the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have presented American and Chinese leaders with new challenges and potential opportunities, as they respond to the war’s global impacts. We asked five experts to address how the war is shaping competition between Washington and Beijing.Read more below.

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Air Force officials have launched a command-directed investigation into why at least two armed Security Forces airmen mistakenly entered a residence on Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, while a child was alone inside, a base spokesperson said. A video of the incident shows at least two officers entering the home with their service pistols drawn.
“We can confirm that on April 28, members of the 316th Security Forces Squadron entered the wrong home while armed, and a minor was present inside,” the Joint Base Andrews spokesperson told Task & Propose.

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Northrop Grumman has secured a contract from the US Army for the second phase of development on the Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS).

Hanwha Defense USA is setting up an integration and test facility for its K9 Mobile Howitzers in Opelika, Alabama.

By October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was on the defensive. Allied forces in the Pacific had pushed back the gains Japan made in the years following its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of the Marianas were captured as other island strongholds had been bypassed and isolated. American and Australian ships were headed for the Philippines.
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Japan’s Navy, desperate to show the Americans it could still fight (and thus prevent an invasion of the Japanese home islands), went all-in at Leyte Gulf.

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A “sonic thump” may not have the same awesomeness factor as a sonic boom, but it still has the right stuff. And like it or not, it’s the new standard in supersonic flight. NASA’s Quesst mission (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) is demonstrating the ability to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without generating the sonic booms that come with breaking the sound barrier.

Taiwan’s defence budget is set to rise in the coming years, with its spending as a proportion of GDP rising to over 5% by 2031.

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The helicopter attack happened after Iran launched multiple cruise missiles, drones and small boats trying to target U.S.

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Part 2 of the 2026 Army Inter Unit Team Boxing

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The Russian Armed Forces have made effective use of the BuK-M3 medium range surface-to-air missile system to defend against strikes by Ukrainian forces launched using the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), with Russia’s Battlegroup Centre having recently used them to intercept attacks from distances of over 30 kilometres. “During combat duty, air surveillance posts and radar systems detected an aerial target. The data was promptly transmitted to the Buk-M3 unit’s crew.

One number buried in the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request reveals a decade of acquisition decisions in a data point: The U.S. Navy is requesting 785 Tomahawk cruise missiles. In 2025, Congress funded 55. That 1,200 percent jump is the cost of choices never stress-tested against the scenario unfolding today — a sustained air campaign against Iran while China watches the magazine drain.As a congressional staffer, I watch acquisition reform proposals grind through the legislative machinery every day.

When India’s third ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine — the INS Aridhaman — entered service on April 3, 2026, it marked a milestone decades in the making.With three boomers, India can now reliably always maintain at least one on deterrent patrol, thus completing the sea leg of its nuclear deterrent. Earlier, India successfully tested the capability to deploy multiple independently targetable warheads from a single missile.

Inside Lebanon, the conditions for the next extremist uprising are quietly taking root.In the summer of 2007, the Lebanese Armed Forces fought Fatah al-Islam for three months inside Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Fatah al-Islam was a Salafi-jihadist group that exploited the camp’s power vacuum to establish a strong recruitment base, drawing recruits from Palestinian, Syrian, and broader Arab networks. Once the dust settled, more than 400 people were dead, and the 30,000 residents of Nahr-Bared were displaced for a second time.

Chinese state media has published footage of the first export configured fifth generation fighter built in the country, a J-35AE aircraft, leading analysts to widely conclude that the first contract for the sale of the aircraft has likely been signed. The unveiling of a fully configured aircraft with export markings has been seen to indicate a shift towards more active efforts to market the fighter type abroad.

Iran has launched cruise missiles, drones, and weaponized small boats against commercial vessels and warships in the Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours, according to Adm. Brad Cooper, who briefed reporters on a new U.S. Central Command-led operation to safely reopen the global shipping chokepoint amid the war in the region.
“We have defeated each and every one of those threats through the clinical application of defensive munitions,” the Centcom commander said Monday. 
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Two officers with the West Virginia National Guard received awards for heroism Monday for stopping a gunman who attacked a National Guard patrol in Washington, D.C. The attack killed another West Virginia soldier.
Army Maj. Ryan S. Reynolds and Air Force Maj. Edwin O. Stanfield received the Soldier’s Medal and Airman’s Medal, respectively, on Monday. The two were outside a Metro station in Washington in November when a gunman opened fire on a patrol of Guardsmen nearby, killing Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and injuring Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, two West Virginia National Guard members.