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Military news…
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Russia releases Marine veteran Trevor Reed as part of prisoner exchange
Russia and the United States have carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange, trading a Marine veteran jailed by Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, both countries announced Wednesday.
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| More than half of the 90 US howitzers bound for Ukraine now delivered |
| Ukrainian troops now have more than half of the 90 howitzers that the U.S. pledged them to help beat back a Russian attack in the country’s eastern region, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday. |
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China protests another ‘routine’ US Navy transit through Taiwan Strait
The Navy sent another guided-missile destroyer through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the fourth U.S. warship to make the trip this year.
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Kyiv Asked for a New Kamikaze Drone to Fight Russia. The Air Force Delivered Phoenix Ghost.
The U.S. Air Force has provided Ukraine with at least 121 Phoenix Ghost drones, a new lethal unmanned aerial weapon that the Pentagon is reluctant to share much information on.
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The Belarusian Railway Workers Who Helped Thwart Russia’s Attack on Kyiv
A clandestine network of railway workers, hackers, and dissident security forces disabled and disrupted the railway in Belarus that the Russian military planned to use to supply its soldiers in Ukraine.
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i have been sharing some military interviews with you from my upcoming book, Signs of Hope for the Military: In and Out of the Trenches of Life. Here is another one.
Interview with SFC William Trent
I was honored to be able to interview SFC William Trent. He was an Afghanistan veteran.
You are from El Paso, Texas. It can get very cold there.
Yes, it can.
So, do you have family?
I am divorced, but I have three children.
When did you get into the service?
Right out of High school. I was seventeen.
What were your duties when you were in the service, especially in Afghanistan?
I was in Dessert Storm as well.
You mentioned you had a couple of buddies killed.
Actually, twelve of my buddies were killed.
How were you able to handle that?
You don’t allow yourself to think about it.
Were you very close to any of them?
I was close to all of them.
Why did you enlist in the first place?
It is a family tradition. My brothers and my grandfather enlisted. I was honored to serve my country.
(Interesting in that I also had a family tradition. My three uncles served in WWII. My brother and I served, and my son retired recently as a Colonel in the Army.)
Would you go back in again?
OH yah!!I wouldn’t change anything I served 22 years.
If there was one thing you could change, what would that be?
I would spend more time with my family. My job came first back then.
What would be your advice to soldiers who are struggling?
Don’t give up! If you are deployed, or getting ready to be deployed, do not think about it.
Do you have PTSD?
Yes, and because of this I recommend that it be mandatory to get counseling when you are getting discharged from the military.
What did you do while you were in the Army?
I was a sniper.
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There is more to this interview. he goes one and talks about what it is like to be a sniper, in my further interview.
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