The Navy's Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds get all the attention when it comes to military demonstration teams. Still, neither can claim that they once invoked a panic in Washington DC that caused the evacuation of the Capitol building. That distinction belongs (perhaps forever) to the US Army's Golden Knights Parachute Demonstration Team.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the defense appropriations bill function as Congress’s yearly shaping mechanism for the Department of Defense (DOD). Because it is one of the few authorization bills reliably passed every year, the NDAA assumes oversized importance for both Congress and the DOD. In an increasingly more threatening global security environment, where the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation are actively challenging U.S. interests, the NDAA gains even more importance.
In a press release earlier this month, the department claimed that Gen Z is inactive lifestyle would lead to more difficulties during bootcamp training.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army appointed Kendall Cox and Edgar Fuentes as the new Civilian Aides to the Secretary of the Army during a virtual investiture ceremony, Feb. 8, at