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3 NAS Pensacola sailors die in car crash

Three sailors assigned to Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, died after a car crash early Saturday morning, the Navy announced.
A ‘super’ rebrand: Navy mandates dropping ‘artificial intelligence’

The U.S. Navy this week became one of the first services to mandate changing terminology from “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence.”
The flight nurses of the Pacific who saved thousands of Marines

In 1945, a dozen U.S. Navy nurses evacuated 2,393 men from Iwo Jima on 125 flights — more than 13% of everyone evacuated from the island.
Navy officer convicted of pushing his wife out of window to her death petitions Supreme Court for review

Navy Lt. Craig Becker’s attorney is petitioning the Supreme Court for review, arguing key evidence was omitted from the trial.

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Pentagon creates advisory council on human performance, health

After creating a new directorate on warfighter optimization within the Department of Defense, the Pentagon announced it will form a federal advisory committee to weigh in on issues affecting troop performance and health.

Congressmen launch bipartisan military range, test facility caucus

A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives launched the Congressional Military Range and Test Facility Caucus in an effort to highlight the role of those ranges in advancing research and test missions for the military.
Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, famously captured by ‘Band of Brothers,’ deliberately set ablaze

A 33-year-old German citizen was arrested over the weekend after a fire tore through one of the last architectural relics of Nazism.
Supreme Court to hear case on division of retirement, disability pay in military divorces

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that challenges whether divorce settlements are enforceable if they agree to protect a former spouse’s share of military retirement pay and the amount is later affected by disability compensation.

US military needs ‘urgent revolutionary institutional change’ to prepare for modern war, Petraeus says

Ret. Army Gen. David Petraeus praised the Pentagon’s new Autonomous Warfare Command but said the U.S. must rapidly prepare for modern autonomous war.

Cost estimate for Iran war rises to more than $47 billion

The U.S. military has spent about 25% more on the war in Iran than estimates projected in July, according to Pentagon data obtained by Reuters.