A traffic accident involving San Diego-based Naval Special Warfare sailors killed one and injured four Friday morning when the government van they were riding in crashed off the side of a remote California highway. Electronics Technician 2nd Class ...
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8,500 US Troops on Alert, Embassy Families Evacuate as Ukraine Threat Looms
About 8,500 US troops will soon be on high alert for a deployment as part of a NATO force to support Ukraine, while the US embassy there is sending home families of diplomats as Russian forces continue to mass at the border. “We have ordered the ...
As Afghanistan Falls, We Remind You: Stand Proud of Your Service
Watching the fall of Afghanistan back home in the United States is fraught with emotions. Many of my fellow veterans will say they’re not surprised at current events. It appears eerily similar to our Vietnam Veterans watching as helicopters evacuated ...
Navy Graduates First Female Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman
For the first time, a woman has graduated from the Navy's rigorous Crewman Qualification Training to become a Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewman. The unidentified woman's graduation from one of the military’s most challenging training ...
The Military Lost Track of 2,000 Weapons in 10 Years — Most Were Stolen
The US military has lost at least 2,000 small-arms weapons since 2010, including close to 1,200 rifles, 74 heavy machine guns, and even 25 mortars. Most were stolen. Many were gone for weeks before their absence was noted. Hundreds remain ...
‘There Are No Flying Saucers’ Declares Pentagon, Which Once Built Its Own Flying Saucers
The Pentagon is set to report to Congress later this month that decades of military investigation into UFOs have produced ... well ... not much. A reexamination of high-profile incidents between US jets and unidentified objects, the Pentagon said, ...
Meet the Mechanic from Michigan’s County Road 581
Hailing from just outside Ishpeming, Michigan, a small town in the Upper Peninsula, Alyssa Maybe grew up with the odds stacked against her. Both Child Protective Services and the local circuit court removed her from her family multiple times; first ...
Locals are Resisting A New Google Campus. Why?
Fuck Off Google." The sign hangs from an apartment balcony on the Landwehr Canal, a waterway that runs through the unkempt, bohemian district of Kreuzberg and later connects with the Spree. If you walk a little farther, you’ll see another sign, this ...