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This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  January, February, and March were insanely dry. In fact, in all of U.S. history, conditions have never been so dry during the first three months of the year. Just think about that for a moment. Not even…

Three soldiers with the Arkansas Army National Guard created tourniquets out of belts to save a fellow guardsman’s life after two heavy expanded mobility tactical trucks collided during training.Three tactical trucks were part of a convoy at Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, Arkansas, on Monday. The first two trucks…

The Department of Defense launched a team of elite private sector businessmen tasked with handling and approving defense contractor negotiations, aimed at fixing the former “broken Pentagon bureaucracy.”Dubbed “Deal Team Six,” the crew is tasked with creating better deals with defense companies to ensure their production of U.S. military equipment…

President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine would temporarily halt fighting for three days beginning Saturday, though Ukraine publicly framed the proposed ceasefire more cautiously as part of negotiations over a large-scale prisoner exchange. In separate statements, Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the proposal would include…

The Pentagon on Friday unsealed the first tranche of what it described as “new, never-before-seen” files related to otherworldly encounters, months after President Donald Trump directed the government to begin disclosing intelligence related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects.Trump, in a post on Truth…

NEW DELHI — India is pressing ahead with a $9 billion infrastructure project to bolster its military footprint on the Great Nicobar Island which sits far from the Indian mainland near one of the world’s most critical shipping arteries.The project is attracting attention as disruptions to shipping in the Strait…

Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace an outbreak of the hantavirus. The overall goal is “containment”, after the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that five confirmed infections had been identified among people connected to the cruise ship MV Hondius. Hantavirus Outbreak Kills 3 On A Cruise…

American forces fired on and disabled two Iranian-flagged unladen oil tankers on Friday after the ships attempted to cross a U.S. Navy blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS George H.W. Bush launched “precision munitions” at the smokestacks of M/T Sea Star III and…

After time in storage and two years of “intensive” maintenance efforts, a B-1B Lancer is back in action, deemed combat capable.The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex at Tinker Air Force Base regenerated the aircraft following its time in the “boneyard,” according to a Thursday Air Force release.The “boneyard,” held at…

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to phase out enlisted jobs tied to the F/A-18 Hornet as it transitions to an all-F-35 tactical aircraft fleet.According to Tuesday’s Marine Administrative Message, or MARADMIN, the Corps will deactivate all remaining Hornet squadrons by 2030 and eliminate the maintenance specialties associated with the aging…

For Marines who have toiled over assembling airfields in austere environments, relief may be on the way. The Marine Corps wants to develop robots that can do the grunt work of laying down the matting used to quickly construct Expeditionary Airfields, or EAF, in amphibious beachheads and other remote locations.…