Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. More than 9,000 Afghan refugees who had been living in temporary housing on military bases in the U.S. since the fall of Kabul in August have been resettled in local communities, many with the aid of a makeshift army of veterans groups, military family organizations […]
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The Space Force finally has its own rank insignia
NewsRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. The military’s newest branch — the Space Force — unveiled what its rank insignia will look like with a social media post from its highest enlisted official Monday. Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force Roger A. Towberman showed off the new insignia more than nine months after the branch finalized the […]
Navy and Marines set deadline for all members to receive COVID vaccine
Covid-19Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Sailors and Marines now have 90 days to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk disobeying a lawful order, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the maritime branches’ top leaders said in a series of messages released Tuesday and Wednesday. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike […]
Crunches are out, planks are in for Marine Corps PFT
NewsRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. The Marine Corps has announced it will be phasing out crunches as part of its annual physical fitness test as part of a larger overhaul of the assessment. Crunches will be replaced by planks — which were added as an option in 2019 — as the mandatory abdominal strength test in 2023, the […]
The bar bet that may have won America’s independence
HistoryRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Two men walked into a bar. Specifically, it was Brooke’s, a gentleman’s club on St. James’ Street in London. The two were prominent English gentlemen who probably should have been at home with their families — it was Christmas Day 1776. Instead, they were there to share drinks and […]
5 John Browning firearm designs that changed the world
HistoryRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. When Gavrilo Princip shot Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, he did it with an FN Model 1910 pistol. The assassination of the archduke became the catalyst of World War I, which itself laid the groundwork for World War II, and later the Cold War. […]
Marines score hit in first test of NMESIS missile concept
Military AffairsRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Marines scored a direct hit in a first-ever live-fire test in which they launched a Navy missile from the back of an unmanned tactical vehicle to strike a surface target at sea. The Marine Corps has combined two existing technologies to produce a deadly new way to hit targets […]
USMC experimenting with more versatile infantrymen
Military AffairsRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Infantry Marines get specialized training to operate specific weapons, but that could change as the service experiments with a model to create generalists who can use several different systems in combat. Three infantry battalions are spending two years testing new models that could revolutionize the Marine […]
USAF’s oldest living general, Harry Goldsworthy, turns 107
HistoryRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. In 1960, then-Col. Harry Goldsworthy and his team were given the near-impossible task of getting an intercontinental ballistic missile site up and running in roughly two years’ time. There was little confidence they would succeed. The Air Force Ballistic Missile Committee, reporting to the Office […]
Capt. Rick Flag to repeat his command of ‘Suicide Squad’
LifestyleRead the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Special Forces leader Capt. Rick Flag will be back in the movie relaunch of DC Comics series “The Suicide Squad,” due in theaters and streaming on HBO Max on Aug. 6. Carrying over from the 2016 movie, Flag again will be played by Joel Kinnaman […]
