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President Donald Trump ordered 800 National Guard troops into the district to "help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C.”

The USS George Washington joined British and Japanese aircraft carriers in the North Philippine Sea for a show of force.

Consider it an aerial technical.

The new facility on the Army base, with an initial capacity for 1,000, will open Aug. 17. 

A naval aviator turned Gemini and Apollo member, his leadership helped prevent the failed 1970 mission from turning deadly.

They don’t need to work either, they just need to be blown up.

“An individual has now been arrested on suspicion of making a false official statement, obstruction of justice, and involuntary manslaughter,” an Air Force spokesperson said.

When his nine-man team was ambushed in Vietnam in April 1967, 2nd Lt. James Capers Jr. called in a mortar strike on their position to keep the enemy at bay and led his men to a helicopter landing zone.

A recent Air Force accident report found that a B-2 pilot stood out of his seat to stomp on the brakes as the stealth bomber skidded down a runway.

Army Spc. Taylor Adam Lee allegedly sent along the technical information with a note that read “The USA is not happy with me for trying to expose their weaknesses.”

A federal watchdog report found that despite evidence of open-air burning in Vietnam, there hasn’t been much research into the health effects veterans face.

“They acted in a way that I think all of us hoped we would under fire, but they did,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is looking into reinstating the practice of Army drill sergeants swarming and screaming at trainees.

Base officials said Quornelius Radford, 28, a sergeant in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, shot five people in the brigade's duty area before he was tackled by other soldiers.

A defense spokesperson confirmed that about 1,400 images from Afghanistan had been “unintentionally" reposted and then removed. The photos were pulled in 2021 to protect Afghan allies.

In all, the Skydweller flew 220 hours, including one 73-hour flight. Built for long-duration surveillance, engineers think it could be in the air longer on solar power alone.

The commander of an infantry One Station Unit Training brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia, directed drill sergeants to stop using “bay tossing” with trainees, but the move was quickly rescinded.

American forces pulled out of the “Conoco Fields” base in Deir ez-Zor base in May, after holding it for years amid repeated attacks.

“In 2010, Cpl. Carpenter went above and beyond the call of duty to shield a fellow Marine from a grenade blast in Afghanistan,” said Navy Secretary John Phelan.

The new guide, along with a "battlebook," are meant to help soldiers’ resilience and readiness.