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An Iraqi translator for the US military emigrated to Texas to start a new life. He ended up becoming one of the biggest drug dealers on the dark web.
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A pair of Russian fighter jets intercepted a US Air Force drone, dumped fuel on it, and eventually collided with it, causing it to crash in the Black Sea
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So let me get this straight: A pair of Russian fighter jets intercepted and pissed fuel all over an Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone until one got too close and accidentally brought it down over the Black Sea?
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The Iraq war plus 20, some thoughts in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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I go offline for my bachelor party for three days and apparently the economy is on fire now?
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Tanks crews in III Armored Corps just got hit with some rule changes on how they can name their tanks
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burn it
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The little health food kiosk next to my gym sells some of the most cursed items I’ve ever seen
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I want to believe that this is my fault somehow
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NEW: The Army's III Corps has dropped new restrictions limiting who gets to name an M1 Abrams tank — and what those names can actually be
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This is honestly the DoD's solution for everything: just slap a drone swarm on it!
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The Air Force wants to turn the MQ-9 Reaper into a mothership for drone swarms
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Lindsey Graham wants to invade Mexico
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SCOOP: The military is studying whether AIM-120 AMRAAMs, designed to be fired from Western fighter jets like F-16s, can be mounted on Ukraine’s existing MiGs.
This would be the first time the U.S. has provided an air-to-air capability.
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The Air Force wants to buy 200 secretive Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter aircraft and 1,000 'collaborative combat aircraft' drone wingmen
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'Land, load ’em, go' — How Army helicopter crews risked their lives to save 10,000 during Afghanistan evacuation
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The Russian military is so low on small arms and ammo that reservists are reduced to fighting with their e-tools
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I was really lucky to get to know Lou in recent years through my fiancé and her family. He will be missed.
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20 years after invading Iraq, US troops are still holding things together there
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Former US Army soldier just got 45 years in prison for planning a "jihadist attack" on his own unit in the lead-up to a deployment to Turkey and sending "sensitive details" about the unit to a neo-Nazi group
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The most realistic thing about Halo is that they’re still using 5.56mm ammo in the distant future
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I didn’t know how much I needed this thread until I read it
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There's a backstory to why these squirrel photos include so many bizarre war-on-terror related scenes. They're the work of a former country musician and "military pin-up model" named Kelly Foxton, who used to do USO tours.
Her website is incredible: sugarbushsquirrel.com/642345.html
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Air Mobility Command, whose top commander recently ordered airmen to prepare for war with China by 2025 by practicing pistol headshots, is removing tail numbers and unit info from its aircraft because OPSEC
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Ohio National Guardsman charged with making untraceable guns and threats toward military installations and Jewish schools sentenced to almost 6 years in federal prison
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A Ukrainian soldier took out 5 Russian tanks in a single day using US-supplied Javelin missiles, Ukraine says businessinsider.com/video-ukraine- via
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so effective you might bomb your allies by accident apnews.com/article/8ed721
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everyone talking about that pill that lets you go without eating while I’m still thinking about that pill the Air Force developed that lets you go days without sleeping
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That time the Air Force court-martialed an airman for hanging up on her superior
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How an Air Force captain was court-martialed for hanging up on a colonel
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American vet who claims he defected to Russia served just 2 years in the US Army, left as PFC
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NEW: The "U.S. mercenary" who gleefully touted this week for spying on the Ukrainian foreign legion and then defecting to Moscow served just two years in the U.S. Army and got out as a PFC 🤔
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The self-described communist said he was previously assigned to Fort Bliss, Texas
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Isn’t this the movie where Arnold breaks a guys neck on a commercial flight and puts a hat over his face like his victim is napping?
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Some people say Commando as a film has aged poorly but that’s only because they’ve “seen it lately.” That’s on them.
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Memo: CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo will step down to become Red Ventures' SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large (@miarsato / The Verge)
theverge.com/2023/3/2/23622
mediagazer.com/230302/p16#a23
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NEW: The "U.S. mercenary" who gleefully touted this week for spying on the Ukrainian foreign legion and then defecting to Moscow served just two years in the U.S. Army and got out as a PFC 🤔
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Who let the (robot) dogs out?
New analysis for on the sudden proliferation of quad-legged unmanned ground vehicles across the U.S. military
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