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Brent Renaud, U.S. filmmaker and journalist, was killed in Irpin, Ukraine

American journalist Brent Renaud reportedly shot and killed at a checkpoint outside Kyiv This is an interview with his partner who was in the car with him. Jack Poseobiec https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1503003793704820738 #UPDATE A US journalist was shot dead and another wounded on Sunday in Irpin, a frontline northwest suburb of Kyiv, …

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Sailors charged in leaked video of F-35C crash on USS Carl Vinson

Four senior enlisted sailors and a junior officer have been charged for their alleged role in releasing government video footage from USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Vinson’s Pilot’s Landing Aid Television (PLAT), showing the ramp strike of an F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter in January, 2022, USNI News  The USS Stockdale steams in …

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Pentagon Investigation on Abbey Gate attack that killed 13 Marines, Soldier, Sailor in the fall of Afghanistan

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander, U.S. Central Command, provide testimony at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on ending the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, Rayburn House Office Building, …

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EU Drug Regulator Warns Against Overuse of COVID Booster Shots

January 13, 2022 9:21 AM VOA News The European Union’s drug regulator is warning that too many doses of COVID-19 vaccines could eventually weaken the body’s immune system, rendering the extra shots ineffective. Marco Cavaleri, the head of vaccine strategy for the European Medicines Agency, said earlier this week that …

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The Sullivan Brothers: The Loss of USS Juneau

The five Sullivan brothers ‘missing in action’ off the Solomons. THEY did their part. Office of War Information poster shows the Sullivan brothers on board USS Juneau (CL-52) in early 1942. All were lost with Juneau on 13 November of that year. Donation of the Steamship Historical Society of America, …

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U.S. Troops, From Combat to Adviser Roles in Iraq, Remain at Risk, Retain Right of Self-Defense

1 January Four Suspects Captured After Attack on Shaddadi By Staff Sgt. Gregory Summers Officials from Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve announced last night that Coalition forces were targeted by indirect fire in areas of northeast Syria. According to the Coalition, rounds did not damage any Coalition …

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DOD Beancounters cut allowances for many service members as inflation skyrockets

DoD Releases 2022 Continental U.S. Cost-of-Living Allowance Rates DEC. 22, 2021 The Defense Department released today the 2022 Continental United States Cost-of-Living Allowance (CONUS COLA) rates, which take effect Jan. 1, 2022. In 2022, $8.5 million will be paid to approximately 6,000 service members stationed within CONUS. CONUS COLA is …

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The high toll of war: 7,057 Servicemembers dead as result of combat, 30,177 Suicides

Suicide rates among active-duty military members are currently at an all-time highsince record-keeping began after 9/11 and have been increasing over the past five years at an alarmingly steady pace. In 2021, study found that 30,177 active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide – compared to …

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USS Indianapolis: the Survivors, 1945

From the Author: Remembrance “Freedom is not Free ! This book includes the experiences of many friends of mine. Read it” Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, Tuskegee Airman, WWII, Ex-Pow, Purple Heart. “A wonderful story of a young son of a Korean veteran who came to respect and publicize the work …

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Going for Broke: Do or Die: From a Handful of Hard Men, the SAS and the Battle For Rhodesia Part I

A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia    by Hannes Wessels Africa Unathorized With the collapse of colonialism and the European retreat from Africa the then colony of Southern Rhodesia refused to follow the political fashion of the time and succumb quietly. They decided to …

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