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MAJORLOUIS CUKELA, USMC MAJORLOUIS CUKELA, USMC * The rank on Maj Cukela’s citations is incorrect.  He was promoted to gunnery sergeant on 1 July 1918 but his warrant was not received in the field until 20 August 1918, possibly leading to the use of the incorrect rank.  Major Louis Cukela …

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Bill …

THE GLOBAL SURGICAL AND MEDICAL SUPPORT GROUP August 29 during the Afghan Pullout, the group reported: Phase 1 is wrapping up and while we will not post publicly the number of people our team of US special operations veterans were able to facilitate extracting from Kabul, it was a sizeable …

Judicial Watch: January 6 Documents Show Park Police Expected Large Group to March on US Capitol (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 329 pages of records from United States Park Police related to the January 6, 2021, demonstrations and disturbance at the U.S. Capitol. The records show that …

Sgt. 1st Class Calvin T. Rockward Sgt. 1st Class Calvin T. Rockward, 38, Special Forces soldier died 27 Oct. while engaged in physical fitness training at Fort Bragg, U.S. Army officials said. Sgt Rockward died from an “unexpected medical event” during the training according to Fort Bragg officials. Sgt. Calvin enlisted in the …

Erdogan, official website Principal Director for Europe and NATO Policy Andrew L. Winternitz and Director for Planning, Programs and Analysis in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Melissa Benkert led a U.S. Department of Defense delegation to Ankara on October 27 for dispute resolution …

The Defense Department is actively working with the whole-of-government to tackle the climate crisis, as underscored by two recently released documents that highlight the impact of climate change on national security. The DOD Climate Risk Analysis identifies how global and cross-cutting consequences of climate change are likely to increase demands on the …

‘Texas Dept. of Public Safety: Arresting migrants for criminal trespass is deterring more from making the journey to the US’ As Biden continues to do nothing at the border, Texas is taking action. No catch & release in Texas,” Gov Abbott. Texas and Mexico share 1,254 miles of common border …

“What we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system,” General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Bloomberg Television. “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it’s very close to that,” he added, referring to …

There have been 385 line of duty deaths in 2021.   Officer down: Illinois officer – a young dad – shot to death while investigating report of stolen car Posted by: Mitch McKinley| Law Enforcement Today A 14-year law enforcement veteran was shot to death while investigating a possible stolen car …