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Military Recruitment Success in 2024
Prep Courses, Policy Tweaks Largely Drove the Military’s Recruiting Success in 2024 By Konstantin Toropin , Steve Beynon , Drew F. Lawrence and Thomas Novelly After years of negative recruiting news and headlines, all the military branches managed to eke out wins this year and meet their recruiting goals — largely aided by new programs […]
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro runs afoul of Hatch Act
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro previously mentioned that military work and politics shouldn’t be mixed. Del Toro stressed that the Department of the Navy is an apolitical body. However, in January this year, while on official government business, he switched into “campaign mode” while speaking of the need for Joe Biden to have a second […]
KSM Plea Deal Revoked!
SECDEF Lloyd Austin Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revokes plea deal for 9/11 terrorists The deal was revoked for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two others who played a large role in the terror attacks on 9/11 By Stepheny Price Fox News The plea deal that prosecutors agreed to with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. […]
Project 2025 and the VA
Five Sided Wind Tunnel What does Project 2025 mean for military veterans? Project 2025’s proposals for the VA calls for changes to veteran healthcare eligibility and disability claims. PATTY NIEBERG Project 2025, a policy guide that could be the blueprint for a second Donald Trump term, would revamp the Department of Veterans of Affairs with […]
Red Sea Retaliatory Airstrikes Resume
Yemen Fater-1 Air Defense System US-British Warplanes Launch Heavy Retaliatory Attacks On Yemen BY TYLER DURDEN US and UK warplanes launched several airstrikes on Hodeidah International Airport in western Yemen in the overnight and early Friday hours. “US–British aircraft targeted Hodeidah International Airport with three raids,” a security source told Yemen’s SABA news agency. The […]
Hamas Pier Final Follies?
US military’s Gaza aid pier will be permanently removed By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press The pier built by the U.S. military to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza will be reinstalled Wednesday to be used for several days, but then the plan is to pull it out permanently, several U.S. officials said. It would […]
Military Housing Woes Continue
Five Sided Wind Tunnel Lawmakers demand answers from Army over squalid barracks conditions, scant progress since damning report Lawmakers are concerned with a lack of progress following a probe into ‘hazardous’ living conditions By Charles Creitz Fox News As Americans celebrate freedom nationwide on July 4, some of those charged with preserving that liberty are […]
Hamas Pier
Hadji Don’t Surf Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein US humanitarian pier reanchored to the coast of Gaza By Cristina Stassis The U.S. military reanchored its temporary humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza, less than a week after detaching it ahead of high seas, a […]
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