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Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet crashes in California. Pilot's status unknown
Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet.
A Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 151 crashed around 10 am Pacific Time near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, Navy officials have announced.
Search and rescue teams from China Lake and Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, are looking for the pilot, whose status is currently unknown, said Lt. Cmdr. Lydia Bock, a spokeswoman for Strike Fighter Wing, Pacific.
The single-seater plane was based at Lemoore, Bock said.
UPDATE: This story was updated on July 31 with information from Lt. Cmdr. Lydia Bock.
ABC News thought this Kentucky gun range video was from Turkey’s invasion of Syria
Video footage of a purported "bombing of Kurd civilians" by Turkish military forces shown on ABC News appeared to be a nighttime firing of tracer rounds at a Kentucky gun range.
US troops in anguish as the White House and Pentagon give their Kurdish allies the middle finger
For U.S. service members who have fought alongside the Kurds, President Donald Trump's decision to approve repositioning U.S. forces in Syria ahead of Turkey's invasion is a naked betrayal of valued allies.
"I am ashamed for the first time in my career," one unnamed special operator told Fox News Jennifer Griffin.
In a Twitter thread that went viral, Griffin wrote the soldier told her the Kurds were continuing to support the United States by guarding tens of thousands of ISIS prisoners even though Turkey had nullified an arrangement under which U.S. and Turkish troops were conducting joint patrols in northeastern Syria to allow the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, to withdraw.
"The Kurds are sticking by us," the soldier told Griffin. "No other partner I have ever dealt with would stand by us."
Up to 5,500 US troops will keep deploying to the southwest border through September 2020
The U.S. military's seemingly never-ending mission supporting civil authorities along the southwestern border will last at least another year.
On Sept. 3, Defense Secretary Mark Esper approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide a total of up to 5,500 troops along the border until Sept. 30, 2020, Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Army North, said on Monday.
Marine Corps confirms two 7-ton trucks collided in August, sending 30 Marines to the hospital
Editor's note: This article by Gina Harkins originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community.
On Aug. 16, two 7-ton trucks collided aboard Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California. Thirty Marines were sent to the hospital.
Russia is planning a major test of its ballistic and cruise missile systems
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia announced on Monday it would hold a large test of its Strategic Missile Forces that will see it fire ballistic and cruise missiles from the land, sea and air this week.
The exercise, from Oct. 15-17, will involve around 12,000 military personnel, as well as aircraft, including strategic nuclear bombers, surface ships and submarines, Russia's Ministry of Defense said in a statement.