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US Must Halt Drug Boat Strikes- UN
How dare you! How Dare You: U.N. Warns U.S. Attacks on Cartel Drug Boats ‘Unacceptable’ Simon Kent U.S. military strikes against cartel drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean journeying from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop, the U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk warned Friday. Türk called for an immediate […]
Valor Friday
Submarines played a pivotal role in World War I, the first conflict in which subs were in wide use by multiple combatants. While World War I proved the submarine was a viable type of warship, World War II would see even more wide use of the type. Germany was the most prolific user of subs […]
No more magnetic catapults?
Think this may be an off the cuff comment, rather than a serious statement? President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an executive order that would compel the U.S. Navy to use steam-powered catapults and hydraulic elevators on new aircraft carriers. Trump has railed against the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapults and […]
Daily FGS
Springfield M1903 Trio arrested amid multi-county copper wire theft operation in North Carolina Story by Connor Lomis GASTONIA, N.C. (WBTV) – Three people were arrested on Tuesday amid a multi-county copper theft operation in North Carolina. Records showed 38-year-old Justin McNeely, 43-year-old John Carpenter, and 39-year-old Joshua Robinson are facing multiple charges. Detectives said they […]
Good Luck With That, Pakistan
Pakistan threatens to ‘obliterate’ Taliban after peace talks fall apart Pakistan’s defense minister says the country doesn’t need its full arsenal to push Taliban ‘back to the caves for hiding’ By Landon Mion Pakistan’s defense minister on Wednesday threatened to “obliterate” the Taliban, which controls neighboring Afghanistan, after negotiations toward lasting peace between the two […]
Drone killer
Anyone remember a much less expensive ’80s sci-fi movie called “The Last Starfighter”? Fun movie in which a kid from a trailer park discovers that the Space-Invader-type game in his trailer park is actually a recruiting tool for an intergalactic war when he gets recruited for one of the sides – and then becomes the […]
Daily FGS
G/K43 Sniper Hegseth says US struck 3 alleged drug-running boats Monday, killing 14 By Konstantin Toropin Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. military carried out three strikes Monday in the waters of the Eastern Pacific against boats suspected of carrying drugs, killing 14 and leaving one survivor. The announcement, made on social media […]
Note from the Past
Message in a Bottle: Letter From Troops Heading to First World War Floats Home After 109 Years MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia´s […]
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