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National Guard Capitol security mission ends Sunday night Zach Merchant Replay Video UP NEXT Roughly four months after the deployment began, the National Guards mission to secure the Capitol will come to a close Sunday night, with its mission officially ending Monday morning at midnight. "It was a long haul since January of 2021 but as of midnight tonight there will be no National Guard personnel on the Capitol," confirmed Brigadier General John Driscoll, Task Force Commander o...

Buhari, others mourn as ex-chief of defence staff dies at 80 Stephen Angbulu and James Abraham Published 14 May 2021 Published 14 May 2021  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari; the Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, former governors  of Plateau, Jonah Jang and Fidelis Tapgun on Thursday expressed sadness over the death of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro (retd.) It was learnt that Dogonyaro died in Jos on Thursday after a brief illness at the age of 80. ...

Views: Visits 9 By Marie-Therese Nanlong, Jos Former Chief of Air Staff, CAS, Air Marshal Jonah Wuyep rtd, former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah Jang, and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Jeremiah Useni have expressed sadness over the demise of the former Chief of Defense Staff, CDS, Lt. Gen Joshua Dogonyaro saying the deceased was a professional who gave patriotic service to the country. Wuyep, a Tarok by tribe just like the deceas...

Gunsmoke-J experimental satellite, Army image WASHINGTON: The Army is negotiating with the Intelligence Community and Space Force about ensuring operational control of any future Army-built ISR payloads hosted on DoD, IC and/or commercial satellites, says Willie Nelson, the de facto head of Army space programs. “This is a watershed,” said Doug Loverro, former head of DoD space policy and a long-time player in space intelligence operations. “It represents the increased importance of tactic...

US Army COL Paul G. Craft is the Director of Operations, J-3, for Joint Forces Headquarters, Department of Defense Information Networks (JFHQ-DODIN). He is responsible for the operational-level command and control of DODIN Network Operations and Defensive Cyberspace Operations for all DOD Networks and their functional synchronization and integration as a key subordinate organization of USCYBERCOM. Colonel Paul G. Craft, a native of Piqua, Ohio, graduated in 1993 from the U.S. Military Academy w...

Sinas names Vera Cruz as new JTF COVID Shield commander Published April 21, 2021 9:23am Philippine National Police chief Police General Debold Sinas on Wednesday named Police Lieutenant General Joselito Vera Cruz as the new commander of Joint Task Force COVID Shield. Vera Cruz will replace Police Lieutenant General Cesar Hawthorne Binag, who is set to retire on April 24 and whose designation has been terminated April 20, Tuesday. Effective Tuesday, Vera Cruz was designated as the Deputy ...

2643 Naxals at a forest in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, a top police officer said. According to the police, some Maoists are also suspected to have been killed during the exchange of fire. PTI file Raipur, April 3 Five security personnel were killed and 12 others injured on Saturday in an encounter with Naxals in a forest along the border between Bijapur and Sukma districts in Chhattisgarh, police officials said. The body of a woman Maoist was also recovered from the encounter spot, ...

Five security personnel were killed and 12 others injured on Saturday in an encounter with Naxals in a forest along the border between Bijapur and Sukma districts in Chhattisgarh, police officials said. The body of a woman Maoist was also recovered from the encounter spot, they said. A senior police officer claimed, prima facie, Maoists have suffered a "huge loss" in the gunfight. "Separate joint teams of security forces, over 2,000 in number, had launched a major anti-Naxal operation from Bija...

CODE arrests man wanted in Newark ZANESVILLE - A man wanted in Licking County was arrested in Zanesville Wednesday afternoon. Marcus Harris of Zanesville taken into custody in the area of Convers Avenue on a warrant for possession of methamphetamine, possession of fentanyl and having a weapon under disability.  According to CODE Task Force Commander Lt. Paul Cortright, Harris is now facing additional charges in Muskingum County after a search warrant was executed at 910 Convers Ave.  Law enf...

Uttarakhand glacier disaster: Drones deployed as flow of silt hampers tunnel operations, relief work SECTIONS Share Synopsis The multi-agency rescue operation at the NTPC hydel project site has been going on uninterrupted since Sunday, when a possible glacier break in the upper reaches of the Himalayas triggered an avalanche and floods in the Alaknanda river system, with no breakthrough in sight, officials said. PTI NEW DELHI: The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) has stepped in t...