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2 FORT BLISS, Texas – Spc. Draven Gipe, a native of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, is a culinary specialist currently serving at Fort Bliss, Texas with the 647th Regional Support Group (Forward), Fort Bliss Mobilization Brigade as a building manager for the Facilities section. Headquartered in El Paso, Texas, Fort Bliss is the second-largest installation in the Army, serves as a Mobilization Force Generation Installation, and supports the Joint Force by deploying and redeploying servi...

National and foreign forces deployed to fight terrorism in the Sahel are increasingly harming civilians. Figures from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) indicate that security forces caused more civilian fatalities in Mali and Burkina Faso in 2020 than violent extremist groups or communal violence. Civilian fatalities by attributed perpetrator in 2020. (Source: ACLED) Things aren’t getting any better this year. French Operation Barkhane, Chadian contingents of the G5 Sah...

National and foreign forces deployed to fight terrorism in the Sahel are increasingly harming civilians. Figures from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) indicate that security forces caused more civilian fatalities in Mali and Burkina Faso in 2020 than violent extremist groups or communal violence. Civilian fatalities by attributed perpetrator in 2020 Advertisement Advertisement Things aren’t getting any better this year. French Operation Barkhane, Chadian contingents of...

Airmen from eight units across Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, participated in exercise Razor Talon, led by the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, March 22-26. , News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - A Mamba in Niger. Sixteen Mamba armoured personnel carriers (APCs) have joined the G5 Sahel Joint Force in northern Niger as part of efforts to combat terrorism, transnational organised crime and trafficking. This is according to the US military’s Africa Command (Africom), which on 31 March said that it had completed movement of the vehicles to support G5 Sahel efforts in northern Niger. The United States in August last year announced the donation of 22 Osp...

HMAS Supply AOR join the Royal Australian Navy fleet today. RAN picture. Royal Australian Navy Commissions HMAS Supply AOR The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) today commissioned its new Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) ship, HMAS Supply (A195), during a ceremony at Fleet Base East in Sydney. The new Supply-class will provide logistics support to sustain Australian and allied naval combat units at sea. HMAS Su...

9 Boise, Idaho – Maj. Christopher Lavelle and his younger sister, Master Sgt. Kerry Lavelle, are known on Gowen Field as “the Lavelles.” The pair has served on base as full time technicians for several years and as traditional Guardsmen in the Idaho National Guard for nearly 20 years. “It’s been fun serving in the military at the same time as my family,” said Christopher. “It seemed at one point that everyone on base knew who we were. They would see Kerry when she ...

Shutterstock.com Space Command is slated to move from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, and efforts are underway to overturn the Trump administration’s last-minute decision to relocate the command. But if the decision stands, Colorado Springs’ aerospace sector will continue to grow, local leaders say. “My view is that it’s not so much losing things that are not here, but not growing as much as we might in the future if Space Command was...

By Airman 1st Class Faith Schaefer, 436th Airlift Wing Public Affairs / Published April 08, 2021 A fuel truck and passengers fly on a Dover Air Force Base C-17 Globemaster III during exercise Razor Talon at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, March 23, 2021. Mobility Airmen participated in RT to enhance readiness and assist in implementation of the Agile Combat Employment concept across the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Faith Schaefer) U.S. Ai...

Atrocity Alert No. 247: Sudan, Central Sahel and the ICC Format DOZENS KILLED DURING INTER-COMMUNAL CLASHES IN WEST DARFUR At least 87 people have been killed and 191 injured since violence broke out between the Arab Rizeigat and Masalit communities on Saturday, 3 April, around the city of El Geneina in West Darfur, Sudan. Members of both communities mobilized local militias after two members of the Masalit community were killed by unidentified armed men. Heavy weaponry and rocket-propelled gre...