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Syria, with an estimated completion date of June 29, 2017. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $6,370,000 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Kaiserslautern, Germany APO AE, is the contracting activity.
An American volunteer with the Kurdish Peshmerga caught a Squirtle near Mosul, Iraq and subsequently challenged Daesh (ISIS) to a Pokémon battle.
the U.S. Air Force wants to field a 200-kilowatt laser cannon by 2020 — and it appears to be three-quarters of the way to getting it
Delta Force underwent a transformation of sorts, Sacolick said, all aimed at preventing another “Black Hawk Down.”
The Battle of Mogadishu, “revolutionized how we did business,” he said.
Using a robot to clear a hazard, from a Combat Engineer perspective, makes perfect sense. Why endanger further innocent lives for the sake of a bad guy?
The Navy via DFAS-CL went as mad as my ex-wife on payday with the checkbook and mismanaged accounting and spending across the board.
Only 115 enlisted personnel and military officers were caught and convicted since 2005. These service members committed bribery, contract-rigging, embezzlement, and theft valued at $52 million during their deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Now that the Pentagon has opened up combat positions to women, the Senate has voted on, and approved, a defense bill that would require women to sign up for the military draft when they turn 18. It would be the first time in American history that women are required to sign up for the draft […]
This discrepancy about Chris Kyle’s record raises new questions about the Intercept’s credibility and the ongoing issue of exaggeration in journalism.
Ummm….didn’t we just report on this? Oh, wait, yes…we did. Apparently one incident involving a Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker of Russia’s Aerospace Forces doing a barrel roll over the top of an RC-135 Rivet Joint wasn’t enough because–yep, you guessed it–it happened again today. It was over the Baltic Sea…and in international airspace…again. Understandably, some hackles […]
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FighterSweep Fans, when your drop rate eclipses your replenishment rate, there’s a problem. That is exactly the issue our men and women downrange are experiencing in the ongoing Operation Inherent Resolve. The good news is actual target engagement rates have been on the rise; coalition aircraft dropping more bombs, but the downfall is a looming […]
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