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Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to WWII aviation radioman
Aviation Radioman 3rd Class Peter L. Smith carried out more than 150 combat/support missions in the Pacific with Torpedo Squadron 28 during World War II.
By Diana Stancy
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Don’t ditch soldiers for machines, combine them, Rainey says
The U.S. Army was pursuing more than 200 artificial intelligence-related projects as of 2021, according to a federal watchdog.
US naval buildup in Indo-Pacific seen as warning to China
For the first time in nearly three years, three American aircraft carriers are patrolling the Indo-Pacific waters, a massive show of naval force in a region roiled by spiking tensions between the U.S. and China and a sign that the Navy has bounced back from the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Explainer: How coronavirus disrupts the blood supply chain
Every day, the U.S. needs 36,000 units of red blood cells, 7,000 units of platelets, and 10,000 units of plasma.
By Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The price of valor
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.
By Roger J. Spiller, Military History Quarterly
How one organization is working to correct cases of Jewish WWII soldiers mistakenly buried under Latin Cross headstones
“It is very important for us for a soldier who lived and died as an American be acknowledged for posterity as an American. It is also equally important for us that a soldier who lived and died as a Jew, be recognized as a Jew.”
By Dylan Gresik
Sick of your rating? Become a legalman!
The sea service instituted reforms to make it easier to switch jobs.
Navy conducts year’s first FONOP in South China Sea
Sunday's target was Fiery Cross Reef, officials said.
40 years after a heroic Coast Guardsman died in a collision, his statue joins underwater veterans memorial
“Flores sacrificed his own life to save others, demonstrating extraordinary courage, bias for action, and devotion to duty, especially noteworthy given his limited shipboard experience. There is no doubt that he belongs in the Circle of Heroes.”
By Dylan Gresik
Keel laid for warship honoring World War II Marine hero
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works reached the milestone in the construction of the future guided-missile destroyer John Basilone.
Rescue swimmer awarded Distinguished Flying Cross for swimming through hell to rescue 59 others
He swam at night through 80 knot winds, ripped through a roof without the aid of a chainsaw and was repeatedly hoisted more than 100 feet into the air while battling turbulence and dangerous power lines around him as he aided in the rescue of 59 others in Houston, Texas, as Hurricane Harvey battered the area in August 2017.
By Shawn Snow
Artillery fire lands near American troops in Syria
Multiple artillery strikes landed about one kilometer from a road where U.S. forces in northeast Syria were paroling on Sunday
By Shawn Snow