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“Like when you’re ramming ships, when you’re using water cannons, when you’re using underwater sonar, lasers blinding people — not helpful, not helpful at all,” said Brig. Gen. Stephen Lightfoot.
“The sale will improve Germany’s capability to meet current and future threats by upgrading Anti-Submarine Warfare capabilities on its P-8A aircraft,” the State Department said in a release.
Air Force Special Operations Command said that “preliminary investigation information” into a Nov. 29 crash that killed eight “indicates a potential materiel failure caused the mishap, but the underlying cause of the failure is unknown at this time.”
Though hundreds of officers now appear to have a path to confirmation, officers up for positions like the head of Indo-Pacific Command and US Cyber Command remain in limbo.
The National Intelligence Program was budgeted for $71.7 billion while the Military Intelligence Program was funded at some $26.6 billion in fiscal 2023.
The news came hours after a Pentagon official said an American delegation would attend a Chinese security conference, amid strained military-to-military relations between Washington and Beijing.
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
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