Category: Army

US Army updated its tattoo policy last June, allowing recruits and current soldiers to have tattoos on their hands, nape, etc.

SOCOM selects L3Harris Sky Warden for armed overwatch role.

In a last-ditch effort, Benavidez spat at the doctor as he closed the morgue bag where Benavidez’s body had been placed. The doctor responded, “I think this one will survive.” Benavidez had fought for six hours to save the lives of his comrades and survived all the sustained injuries.

Just a couple of weeks after the Army reneged on its pledge to accept recruits without high school diplomas; they came up with another scheme to meet their already low recruitment goals. On June 29th, I wrote about how the Army was miserably failing to meet its recruitment goals, so they dropped the educational requirements […]

“The Myanmar military’s use of landmines is abhorrent and cruel. At a time when the world has overwhelmingly banned these inherently indiscriminate weapons, the military has placed them in people’s yards, homes, and even stairwells, as well as around a church,” said Matt Wells, Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Deputy Director – Thematic Issues.

“His death in Syria takes a key terrorist off the field and significantly degrades the ability of [the Islamic State] to plan, resource, and conduct their operations in the region,” the White House said in a statement.

Other nations are also participating in the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine Mission, including Poland, Sweden, Canada, Lithuania, the UK, and Denmark. 

“A price cap on Russian oil is one of our most powerful tools to address the pain that Americans and families across the world are feeling at the gas pump and the grocery store right now,” she noted.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanded that Russia end its “filtration” system, which has resulted in the forcible expulsion of thousands of Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territory. Blinken referred to this practice as a “war crime.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced during a NATO conference in Madrid that the United Kingdom will send an additional one billion pounds (or 1.2 billion USD or 1.16 billion EUR) in military assistance to Ukraine.

Iran is expected to supply Russia with “hundreds” of drones, some of which will be able to carry weapons for use in the conflict in Ukraine. Iran is also preparing to train Russian forces on operating these drones as early as July.

A cruise of weapons on the Ukrainian combat zones was covered in a special report prepared by SOFREP in 2015. To date, the Ukrainian Forces are magnifying the use of these weapons to fire back against the assaults made by Russian soldiers on its continuing conflict.