Has the military been miscalculating spouse unemployment?
For decades, military spouse employment policy has revolved around a single, stubborn statistic: unemployment. It’s the standard that leaders cite, programs are built around and progress is measured against. But a recently published report reveals that the Department of Defense has been calculating unemployment differently...
Fair winds, INDOPACOM: Pentagon returns command name to US Pacific Command
Another Pentagon-led name change was unveiled Tuesday, when it was announced that the military’s U.S. Indo-Pacific Command would be dropping “Indo” from its name and reverting back to the long used U.S. Pacific Command, or USPACOM. The move, according to a Pentagon release, “honors the...
Iran LAUNCHES New Drone Attacks – Trump Threatens More Bombing
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Pentagon demands human performance data from services in fitness overhaul
The Pentagon has quietly set in motion a yearlong strategy to unify the military services’ approach to boosting human performance and reaching “Total Force Fitness,” emphasizing a data-driven approach to achieving the desired results. Two Pentagon memos released in May and obtained by Military Times...
US Army’s ‘Tropic Lightning’ Division ponders transformation lessons from Philippine war games
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division (25th ID) has undergone a veritable metamorphosis in the past few years, but Maj. Gen. James Bartholomees, its commanding general, explained even more transformation is coming. Speaking to Defense News from the Philippines, Bartholomees confirmed...
CIA BOMBSHELL: Iran Will SECRETLY Build Nukes, Despite Deal
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Russian Navy OPENS FIRE On British Ship – Military Responding
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KC-46A boom mishap caused by operator and F-22 pilot errors, investigation finds
A U.S. Air Force investigation found that incorrect manual control inputs by a KC-46A’s boom operator, as well as a F-22A Raptor pilot not accounting for the other aircraft’s “stiff boom characteristics,” led to last year’s mishap in which the KC-46A’s refueling boom was severely...
‘MUMS’ the word: Corps stands up first ever Marine unmanned maintenance squadron
The Marine Corps on Tuesday stood up the service’s first ever unmanned maintenance squadron in a ceremony aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. A subordinate unit of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Unmanned Maintenance Squadron 14, or MUMS-14, is now the...
