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Published February 19, 2021, 4:37 PM ILIGAN CITY – There were no fancy dresses and no elaborate ceremony, but at least their matrimony is now legal. Eight couples who were former New People’s Army rebels exchanged vows in a civil wedding ceremony at the municipal capitol of Leon B. Postigo, Zamboanga del Norte on Feb. 18, four days after Valentine’s Day. (97th IB / MANILA BULLETIN) Eight couples who were former New People’s Army rebels exchanged vows in a civil wedding ceremony at the m...

The US Air Force (USAF) has reached 600,000 flight hours in its Pilatus PC-12 (U-28A in USAF service) turboprop utility aircraft. USAF spokesperson Captain Savannah Stephens said on 18 February that 328,000 of those flight hours supported fl...

Army 2nd Lt. Alex Villahermosa recently became the first Uniformed Services University medical student to ever receive the Order of the Military Medical Merit, or O2M3, presented by the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) for significant contributions to the regiment. A surprised and humbled Villahermosa was recognized for his achievements during a small ceremony at USU on Feb. 11.   “I didn’t tell him that we were doing this today. I have been stringing him along for the last year and he ha...

A demo of off-the-shelf aircraft is set to occur this year.

New Plane Key to Special Ops Vision for Africa, General Says  Air Force Special Operations Command is planning flight demonstrations in coming months. A new aircraft that can fly reconnaissance missions and bomb enemy forces is key to U.S. special forces’ future in Africa, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday. Lt. Gen. James Slife spoke as the Biden administration reviews the U.S. military’s global footprint and prepares to advise Congress on reorienting A...

Eye in the Sky: Israeli Company Gets US Patent for Drone-Based Facial Recognition Technology © Flickr / B Ystebo https://sputniknews.com/military/202102171082108727-eye-in-the-sky-israeli-company-gets-us-patent-for-drone-based-facial-recognition-technology/ The US military has been working on several drone designs with the ability to identify faces, but an Israeli company which received startup funding from Microsoft and provides products to the Isra...

The Pentagons watchdog says the five weapons programs it audited have been updating cybersecurity requirements to defend against identified threats.

Why the US’s counterterrorism strategy in the Sahel keeps failing 16 Feb 2021 The US alone is not responsible for the negligence and corruption of partners in the Sahel, or for the coups and war crimes US-trained forces have committed. But the US has been training foreign militaries for more than 50 years now, and the pattern of calamity – in the Sahel and beyond – suggests a reevaluation of US security aid is urgently needed. (Photo by Fred Marie/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images...

Share This: As the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam steadily grew with more conventional troops, so did its secret war. To counter the Viet Cong’s guerrilla campaign, which was supported by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and was raging inside South Vietnam, the Pentagon established a highly secretive special operations organization in 1964. The Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was tasked with taking the fight to the enemy regardless of where they w...

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