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Dec 17, 2020 MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – As COVID-19 restrictions reach into the ninth month, operations at Minot Air Force Base have not stopped due to the diligent and innovative efforts of the 5th Medical Group. Throughout 2020, the medical team and augmentees have met the challenges of COVID head on, allowing Team Minot to meet the demands of the mission. The Medical Group has implemented innovative ways to provide medical care and mitigate COVID exposure. In order to expand COVID testing capa...

By Patrick Goodenough | December 14, 2020 | 4:04am EST A B-52H Stratofortress takes off the Barksdale Air Force Base, La. on December 9 for the long-range flight to the Middle East. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Lillian Miller) (CNSNews.com) – A senior Iranian air force commander said at the weekend that the regime was closely monitoring U.S. Air Force movements, including the arrival in the region last week of two B-52 strategic bombers, warning tha...

Japan Abandons Plans to Upgrade F-15 Fighter Jets as Cost Rises Dramatically, Media Says Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202012121081438021-japan-abandons-plans-to-upgrade-f-15-fighter-jets-as-cost-rises-dramatically-media-says/ In October, Boeing and Mitsubishi signed an agreement to modernise Japan’s F-15 aircraft so they could carry long-range cruise missiles. The reason why Tokyo decided to upgrade the aircraft was Chinas intensifying air patrols over the disputed Senka...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 10, 2020 at 2:34 PM Two F-22 Raptors and one B-2 Spirit, deployed to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, fly in formation over the Pacific. WASHINGTON: In a clear appeal to the incoming Biden administration, the commander of the Air Force’s strategic bombers and ICBMs says America’s allies are counting on us to stay the course and completely modernize our nuclear triad — not cut it back. Gen. Timothy Ray’s remarks to today’s online Triad Sympos...

Rising. in april, the white house labeled irans revolutionary guard as a foreign terrorist organization and in may the u.s. warned it was imposing new sanks on countries that would continue to buy oil from iran. five days later two u.s. officials told cnn that the pentagon received intelligence of a possible threat against u.s. forces and interests in the region. in response the u.s. sent a carrier strike group and a bomber task force in it that area. four commercial ships were attacked off the ...

>> reporter: so general mckenziey maintains that the threat from iran and proxy forces remains very real. and is still imminent. but what has changed over the last week or two is that one of the areas that the u.s. military was very concerned about and thats the maritime threat, particularly in the persian gulf and the strait of hormuz, some of the tension there has gone down a bit. general mckenzie credits the addition of some large military assets to the region. one being the "uss abraham linc...

Middle east. i want to play part of that conversation. >> the threat remain v. rein re. we continue to evaluate it every day. >> the threat very real, do you consider it something that might be imminent, that might require some more forces to counter it? >> i think the threat is imminent. we continually evaluate our force in the region. i talk to the chairman and secretary as often as necessary, but i think its something well watch on a daily basis. >> courtney, what more can you tell us? >> rep...

Youre watching "velshi & ruhle." and defense secretary shanahan just spoke about the u.s. troop levels in the middle east. >> he was addressing reports that the united states could be sending 10,000 troops there in response to a growing threat from iran. >> joining us now are national security and pentagon correspondent, courtney kube. courtney, whats the latest? >> so this is something that came out late yesterday afternoon. there were a couple of wire reports about the potential for more u.s. ...

Additional forces to the region and the response including a bomber task force and a carrier group. u.s. military officials felt additional forces were needed to deter any possible iranian aggression. now its unclear whether president trump himself will be briefed on the proposed plans today. we were told he would have to sign off on the proposed deployment which could send thousands of additional troops to the region. this comes as some lawmakers have expressed skepticism about the nature of th...

There was a lot of frustration last week by members in the holt. breaking news just in. senate and the house that they the president is appealing werent informed in advance about some of the threats coming mondays ruling that says he has from iran. to turn over his financial particularly the threats that caused the u.s. military to records. well have more on that story coming up. surge, to accelerate the coming up. i dont keep track of regrets. deployment of a carrier strike group and move a b...