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Tech, Tactics, and Trauma: Cutting-Edge Medicine on Display at CAPEX 2025
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Drones buzzed overhead, special operators stalked through the shoot houses, and medics monitored vital signs of patients in the field. This wasn’t some disconnected tech demo or surgical exercise; this was integrated, visceral, and real. At the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s capabilities exercise (CAPEX 2025), March 31-April 6, 2025, the convergence of cutting-edge...[Read More]
Terrorists granted paid accounts, blue checks on X: Report
U.S.-sanctioned terrorist organizations appear to be enjoying the perks of paid, premium accounts and verified blue check marks on the social media platform X, a potential violation of U.S. sanctions, according to a report published Thursday. The social media giant has accepted payments from individuals who appear to be affiliated with Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the Hamas militant group, among ...[Read More]
Terrorists granted paid accounts, blue checks on X: Report
U.S.-sanctioned terrorist organizations appear to be enjoying the perks of paid, premium accounts and verified blue check marks on the social media platform X, a potential violation of U.S. sanctions, according to a report published Thursday. The social media giant has accepted payments from individuals who appear to be affiliated with Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the Hamas militant group, among ...[Read More]
Texas Guard can make immigration arrests under new Trump agreement
Texas National Guard soldiers now have the authority to make immigration arrests and help detain and deport undocumented people under an agreement between the state and the Trump administration that requires those duties be done under the supervision and direction of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official. Guard members exercising the authority must be in contact at all times with a CBP off...[Read More]
Texas sends more than 400 Guardsmen to US-Mexico border
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday said he’s sending more than 400 soldiers from Houston and Fort Worth to the U.S.-Mexico border to collaborate with Border Patrol agents “to stop illegal immigrants from entering our country and to enforce immigration laws.” Abbott said he will also send C-130s, an aircraft that can take off and land on rough terrain, and Chinook helicopters. The troops, part of a unit ca...[Read More]
The 18-year-old World War I corporal behind Fort Benning’s renaming
For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump administration is set on restoring the familiar one — this time for a different Benning. The new namesake is Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military’s second-highest honor for his battlefield courag...[Read More]
The 2025 Navy Week locations include 14 cities across the United States and one U.S. territory
MILLINGTON, Tenn. — The Navy Office of Community Outreach recently announced the 15 locations it will visit in 2025 as part of the Navy’s signature outreach program known as Navy Weeks. Navy Weeks provide an opportunity for communities to better understand how the Navy delivers power for peace, from seabed to space.
The 3 FBS Service Academy Football Programs, Ranked
Playing at a service academy means their academics actually matter, and then they have to spend five years serving in the military.
The 5 Americans who made history by earning the Victoria Cross
Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military award for valor. The first, William Henry Harrison Seeley from Topsham, Maine, was driven by a family squabble to go to sea when he was 22 years old. After deserting a merchant ship in Boston, he enlisted in the Royal Navy and served aboard the warship Impérieuse on the China...[Read More]
The accidental Word War II victory of a little PT boat that could
The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle. Such exploits made for thrilling literary, film and television fodder, but the public image of the PT boat speeding along, dodging enemy shellfire to sink an enemy...[Read More]
The American woman who sculpted new faces for battle-scarred WWI vets
As the world and its soldiers went over the top and straight into mechanized warfare, the horrors of large-caliber machine guns and artillery warfare ushered in a new age of gruesome deaths and horrific injuries. World War I claimed the lives of 8 million men, with another 21 million wounded. An estimated 60,500 British soldiers suffered head or eye injuries, according to a 2011 article in the Bri...[Read More]
The Army’s permafrost test bed in Alaska set for significant upgrade
As warming conditions create new operating pathways in the Arctic and military training increasingly emphasizes proficiency in the cold, the Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center is preparing to open a state-of-the-art center supporting research at its permafrost tunnel research facility. A new $11.4 million operations center, next to the tunnel in Fox, Alaska, is set f...[Read More]