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Well, Bye.
General Mark Milley Top Military Officer General Mark Milley Retires General Mark Milley steps down on Friday after a tumultuous term as the top US military officer that saw him face repeated crises at home and abroad. General CQ Brown will replace him, becoming the second Black officer after Colin Powell to serve as chairman […]
Tuberville’s Trauma- Memo Highlights the Horrors
Deferred Retirements, Unemployed Spouses, Field Officers Working as Generals: Democrats’ Memo Details Effects of Tuberville Blocking Military Promotions At least 25 three- and four-star officers were forced to delay retirements to ensure continuity of command due to a Republican senator’s months-long blockade against hundreds of military promotions, according to a new memo from Senate Democrats. […]
Flag Wars Finger Pointing
Senate Republicans now blame Democrats for military leadership gaps By Leo Shane III In a surprise turnabout, Senate Republicans now are accusing Democratic leaders of slowing senior military promotions by refusing to schedule individual votes for the highest Defense Department leadership posts in order to work around the months-long hold by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., […]
Space Force Affirms New Focus
Late in the Cold War a stand-alone command was considered necessary to de-conflict space operations between the military services, as each branch had space capabilities of its own. The first iteration of the Space Command was created in 1985 to provide joint command and control for all military space operations. GW Bush’s administration needed to […]
Tuberville’s Delayed Flags May Grow to 650
Senator Tuberville (R-AL) The current Administration is not pleased. The Alabama senator’s hold on all DoD civilian and military Flag and GO nominations is “unprecedented in its scale and scope” and “a clear risk to U.S. military readiness” according to SecDef Austin. Three Service Secretaries have just chimed in on a combined press release beating […]
Deputy SecDef Watches the Unknown
Secretary Kathleen Hicks Hicks takes direct oversight of Pentagon’s UAP office; new reporting website to be launched In separate discussions over the last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and a Pentagon spokesperson briefed DefenseScoop on the near-term vision for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. BY BRANDI VINCENT Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks recently moved […]
Kabul PUC
Soldiers, Marines from Kabul evac awarded Presidential Unit Citation By Davis Winkie Editor’s note: This story was updated on Aug. 31, 2023 at 6:14 p.m. EST with additional information from Navy public affairs. Two years ago, the fall of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, to the Taliban sparked one of the largest humanitarian operations in U.S. military […]
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