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""The Army will improve homes, communities, and customer service...through the candid feedback we receive from our soldiers and their families."

Called Millennium Challenge 2002, the idea was simple: to develop and implement training and doctrine that could be changed quickly to utilize developing technology and adapt to varying enemy tactics. The Cold War tactics the U.S. military trained on for decades were out the window and a new war was on the horizon.

The Marine Corps says it has no record of service for Clifton A. Blackwell, the 61-year-old Milwaukee man arrested on Saturday night for allegedly throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man while asking him, "Why did you come here and invade my country?"

As it does every year, the Marine Corps published its birthday message video highlighting Marines past and present, but as Newsweek's Jim Laporta noted on Monday, it has just six seconds of footage of women in an eight minute-long video.

The airman, assigned to the 24th Special Operations Wing, "exited his aircraft during a jump training scenario over the Gulf of Mexico approximately 4 miles south" of Hurlburt Field in Florida, according to an Air Force statement

"Something needs to change, because I don't think we have enough manpower for the workload."

Oh my sweet Jesus this sandwich is good.

You boys ever been to Mex-E-Co?

While senior leaders continue to say this is a priority, safeguards continue to fail.

A Marine Corps veteran has been arrested in connection to an attack on a Hispanic man in Wisconsin during which the suspect allegedly threw battery acid in the victim's face and subjected him to an anti-immigrant tirade, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports

A senior drill sergeant said the "special sauce" is "hard work and motivation."

Paul Lewis hoped the Iranians would release the hostages around Christmas. When that didn't happen, he wondered if he might be held for several years, like American service members during the Vietnam War.

"He told me that if chaos results in the death of people, even through information he provided, it doesn't affect him."

In 1979 after two of his employees working in Iran were arrested, Ross Perot brought together a team to get to Tehran and rescue them

"The president … has a lot of latitude under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to dismiss a case or change a sentence," said Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth. "From what I understand that is likely what will happen here shortly"

"We own the night" has remained the battle cry of American night vision dominance for decades. Now, U.S. Special Operations Command wants to take the U.S. military's capabilities to the next level

Nothing makes a celebration like bubbles — sort of

Navy officials reportedly enlisted the help of executives with the Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line to find solutions for its ongoing maintenance and readiness issues that have stranded a majority fo the service's aircraft carriers in non-deployable status

For the past 14 years, I've had the honor to tell the stories of U.S. service members who are taking the fight to the enemy. But telling the U.S. military's story has become harder since the Pentagon and combatant commands began treating basic information as if it were nuclear missile launch codes.

Rudy Boesch, the retired Navy SEAL who was one of the first contestants to appear on the reality television show Survivor, has died at 91.