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Military news…
A Chinese government-sponsored war movie that celebrates how roughly 120,000 communist troops were unable to destroy a vastly smaller force of U.S., British, and South Korean service members has become China’s highest grossing movie ever.
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While China hits the movies, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have been hitting naval targets in the Indo-Pacific in what is almost certainly preparation for a possible fight with China.
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Spc. Michaela Nelson, the Ohio National Guard soldier who has been missing for the last month, was reportedly found in her car on Tuesday.
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“They don’t breathe at all … It’s a huge relief when we get to take off the helmet after a flight or during pilot swap out.” That’s one of several Air Force pilots who spoke about how the helmets the Air Force has been using since the 1980s are hot, uncomfortable and even mission-threatening.
“The entire purpose of Pit Vipers, at least from my experience, is to get people to ask why you have a rainbow-colored car windshield on your face.” That’s from Matt Sampson, who wrote this article about why the provocative sunglasses, which are popular among junior enlisted service members, are not as out-of-regs as your staff NCO might want you to believe.
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| Pentagon report recommends expanded forces in Guam, Australia to challenge China in the Pacific |
| The report, known as the Global Posture Review, is designed to help the military decide where to position forces throughout the world and determine whether it “has the correct number of troops in the correct places,” Pentagon officials have said. |
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Threat of Russian invasion of Ukraine tests Biden administration
The White House is reviewing options to deter a feared Russian invasion of Ukraine, including providing more military aid to Kyiv and threatening sanctions, to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from escalating the simmering conflict into a full-blown transatlantic crisis.
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I told you in my last post that I will have a WWII nurse in my upcoming book. It will be expanded sine I found out she had a son and two daughters, Gotta be some hand me down stories from them to add.
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I know this is a poor excuse for not sharing another excerpt, but I am exhausted, and I do not know why. So, I will have to keep this post short today.
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