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News From Antiwar.com On April 28 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that his government will apportion $747 million ($580 million American) to upgrade four military bases in the north of the country and to increase and expand war games with the U.S. The steady, though largely unnoticed emergence of Australia as a regional and in many ways global military power over the past twenty years remains unacknowledged until a story like this one occasionally surfaces. From military depl...

CHERRY POINT, N.C. -- Before the dawn of online gaming, video games and computer games primarily featured two to four players sitting in the same room looking at the same screen while using a controller or keyboard to play a game where they either raced or battled with or against each other. Games such as Mario Kart, Goldeneye and Super Smash Brothers provided hours of entertainment and camaraderie for gamers as they competed with and against their friends and family. When online gaming came i...

20 CAMP Kinser, Okinawa, Japan–Marines and Sailors with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3d Marine Logistics Group, honed their Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations capabilities and “Fight Now” concepts in support of III Marine Expeditionary Force, on training areas throughout Okinawa during exercise Pacific Pioneer, April 8-23, 2021. Pacific Pioneer served as an opportunity to rehearse Marine Air-Ground Task Force and joint integration as well as fulfilling training and...

OKINAWA, Japan -- Marines and Sailors with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, honed their Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations capabilities and “Fight Now” concepts in support of III Marine Expeditionary Force, on training areas throughout Okinawa during exercise Pacific Pioneer, April 8-23. Pacific Pioneer served as an opportunity to rehearse Marine Air-Ground Task Force and joint integration as well as fulfilling training and readiness requirements for the batt...

USNI News Marines Update Force Design 2030 After a Year of Experimentation in the Field April 26, 2021 9:33 AM A U.S. Marine with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, crawls onto the beach during reconnaissance scout swimmer training part of Exercise Bougainville I at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii, Feb. 8, 2021.US Marine Corps Photo The Marine Corps is a year into reshaping its force to become optimized for modern operations – in combat and in everyday competition – by 2...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- As a Marine, you are either in the infantry or you support the infantry. Marine Corps aviation plays a major contribution to achieving mission success while working with their ground counterparts. A Marine Corps pilot is able to provide support for the mission and decisions of what ends up being the maneuver warfare. One of the biggest impacts aviation plays in is the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The MAGTF is the only combined combat organization in the world that consist...

Integrated Training Exercise, or ITX, is a training exercise on the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms that focuses on the tactical application of combined-arms maneuver warfare. ITX provides service-level assessments of battalion-size units and their associated combat support, combat service support, and aviation assets while conducting live-fire training. The purpose of ITX is to create a challenging, realistic training environment that produces combat-ready forces capa...

A 49-year-old Yucca Valley man was arrested Thursday, accused of sexting a 17-year-old girl. Detectives at the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station learned that Miguel Alsop had been sending inappropriate text messages to the girl. Detectives obtained a search warrant, and about 9 a.m. Tuesday, went to Alsop’s home in the 7100 block of Rubidoux Avenue. During their investigation, detectives discovered that Alsop had sent several sexual-related texts to the girl. An arrest warrant was issued for ...

Senators show support for increasing US Southern Command intelligence assets An MQ-9 Reaper drone flies over California. (Courtesy of Chalk 2) WASHINGTON — The head of U.S. Southern Command on Tuesday appeared to find a receptive audience to his requests for greater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in the next budget. Adm. Craig Faller, who will retire as the SOUTHCOM chief later this year, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that his command rece...

News to Know for March 3: J&J vaccine arrives in Va.; Adam Oakes vigil; Mostly breezy, sunny day Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: Hawaii News Now/file) By Adrianna Hargrove | March 3, 2021 at 6:53 AM EST - Updated March 3 at 12:14 PM RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Take a look at our top headlines before you start your day! Mostly Breezy, Sunny Today should be the best weather day of the week as we go above average with lots of sun. Lows in the low 30s, highs around 60. Wednesday Fo...