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The sunken amphibious assault vehicle (AAV), in which seven missing Marines and one sailor drowned in a tragic accident on July 30, was located. The vessel was found shortly after the search was called off and the Marine Corps and Navy had begun the process of notifying the families of the deceased. The accident had happened […]
During World War II, the Nazis tried to systematically eliminate the Jews from Europe with their “Final Solution.” Anne Frank’s family that had been hiding in Amsterdam from the Gestapo for more than two years was betrayed and arrested. Anne Frank and seven other Jews were sent to the Nazi death camps. Seven of them […]
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reported that it observed and killed an armed group of four people who approached the Israeli border fence with Syria and planted explosives. Maglan Special Forces troops had the group under surveillance. The SF operators opened fire with machineguns and called in an unidentified aircraft that fired a missile at […]
Mark Esper, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, announced earlier last week that European Command EUCOM will relocate from Stuttgart, Germany to the NATO headquarters in Mons, Belgium. He also ordered Africa Command (AFRICOM) to draw up plans to relocate its headquarters. But unlike EUCOM, there is not a place for AFRICOM to go. As part […]
In the mid-summer of 1990, Saddam Hussein made a decision that changed the face of the Middle East and sealed the fate of Iraq and his own rule. In the early morning hours of August 2, 1990, Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait and in a lightning operation, quickly took over the country in just two days. […]
The military has called off the search for the seven Marines and one sailor who went missing after a deadly accident off the coast of San Diego on Thursday. The eight troops are now presumed dead after an exhaustive 40-hour search yielded no results. Fifteen Marines and one sailor were onboard an amphibious assault vehicle […]
On Friday, a federal appeals court vacated the death sentence for Boston Marathon convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not screen jurors adequately for potential biases. The case had rocked the city of Boston. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase […]
In terms of working environments, the United States Air Force and State Farm insurance run pretty closely together, according to Cassie Thompson, who has spent many years associated with both. “I think this job is the closest thing I’ve had to my Air Force career which was a fantastic career,” she said. Thompson was born […]
The “Twitch” amendment to the Pentagon’s spending bill is dead. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), had proposed to ban the military from or severely reduce the military recruiting through the e-sports gaming community. Her amendment barely got 50 percent of Democrats in the House on board and was roundly defeated by a 292-126 margin on Thursday. […]
On July 30, 1945, just days after delivering the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian, the cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), steaming alone en route from Guam and heading to Okinawa, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Nearly 900 of its 1,195-strong crew died. Now, the eight surviving crewmembers were honored by Congress. […]
A routine training exercise turned deadly for a Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) unit on Thursday afternoon. One Marine is dead and others are missing in an AAV (amphibious assault vehicle) mishap off San Clemente Island in southern California. “1 Marine has died, 8 service members remain missing and 2 were injured after an AAV mishap […]
Federal and North Carolina investigators closed the door on another sham marriage ring set up at Fort Bragg, NC. The investigation resulted in grand jury indictments for both active duty and former soldiers stationed at the base. The charges state that the accused were involved in a criminal organization designed to fraudulently wed foreign nationals […]