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The man who blew up a Tesla cybertruck outside a Trump hotel was "on leave from active military duty in Germany," it has emerged. Matthew Livelsberger, 37, used fireworks to cause the huge blast outside the hotel in Las Vegas at around 7.30am on Wednesday. He died in the explosion, which has left multiple people injured. He was on active duty in the US Army in Germany, but allowed on leave, during which time he returned to his home city of Colorado Springs. However, a relative has today told reporters Livelsberger's wife had not heard from the man in several...

The man responsible for the Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel served at the same military base as the New Orleans terrorist, according to a new report.

Hearing that this is the wife of the Matthew Livelsberger, the 37-year-old green beret and suspect in the Trump Las Vegas hotel Cybertruck explosion

The Trump Las Vegas Cybertruck bomber has been identified as 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Local media reports he has military experience, similar to that of the New Orleans terrorist. The FBI is conducting a search at his home, according to local media. A LinkedIn profile that appears to be of the Cybertruck bomber shows that he served as a member of the US Army’s elite Green Berets. The profile also suggests that he was still an active member of the US Army, working as Remote and Autonomous Systems manager for the past 3 months. SNIP

Video of Shamsud Din Jabbar, born in Texas, former U.S. Army soldier.

The twisted driver who massacred pedestrians celebrating the New Year on a New Orleans street and died in a shootout with police has been identified. Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S citizen, drove a rental truck brandishing an ISIS flag into the crowd on Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens. He was killed by cops after he exited his vehicle and started shooting. The electric-vehicle-driving terrorist - who the FBI believes did not work alone on the horrifying attack - grew up in Texas and served in the U.S. Army. Jabbar worked for white-collar Deloitte as...

FORT CAMPBELL, KY (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Over 50 military installations are alleged to have toxic levels of water contamination that cause a variety of illnesses, diseases and cancers. Now, Fort Campbell has been added to that list. In November 2023, the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization, released information indicating that the groundwater on post is contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which could expose current and former servicemembers to potentially dangerous toxins. A lawsuit in federal court claims the PFAS contamination in Fort Campbell’s groundwater has registered well above the EPA-recommended limit.

Circa 1997, I was in Panama, on the Caribbean side, getting my boat ready to transit the canal to the Pacific. I was walking from Colon's old so-called yacht club (now long gone) through an industrial port area to get to Colon City. When I was passing about 20 fallow acres, I witnessed a training exercise by a dozen or so off-road motorbikes in green paint, each with a pair of uniformed soldiers on them. The soldiers riding on the back each carried a carbine. While I watched from a few hundred yards away, they did a "reverse starburst," that...

A recently resurfaced CIA document, which was declassified in 2017, has shed light on an experiment conducted on May 22, 1984. The experiment—part of a larger program often referred to as “Project Stargate”—allegedly transported the subject’s consciousness back in time, approximately one million years B.C. Project Stargate was a secret U.S. Army initiative established in 1977 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International. Its primary objective was to investigate the potential use of psychic phenomena, including remote viewing, telepathy, and psychokinesis, for military and intelligence applications, according to Daily Mail. The news outlet added,...

While NASA is searching for life on Mars, a CIA document claims it was found 40 years ago. The report, 'Mars Exploration May 22, 1984,' details how the agency used astral projection—the idea that a person's spirit can travel through the astral plane—to transport a 'subject' to Mars approximately one million years BC. The study was part of Project Stargate, a secret US Army unit established in 1977 that focused on anomalous phenomena, including remote viewing, telepathy, and psychokinesis. Participants were exposed to sounds like binaural beats and hemi-sync audio to induce altered states of consciousness and promote psychic abilities....

Joe Biden has never attended an Army-Navy football game while serving as the president of the United States. Will that change today? That's a question many people are asking this Saturday. Biden elected to skip out on attending the Army-Navy game in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Obviously, that didn't sit well with most Americans. They believe every president should attend this matchup. It's basically a tradition at this point. On Friday night, President-elect Donald Trump announced on social media that he'll be watching this afternoon's game at Northwest Stadium. He tweeted, "Will be going to the Army/Navy Game tomorrow to...

EDWARDS AFB, Calif.— Congress wants more information from the Pentagon on what authorities and technologies it needs to protect military installations from the threat of drone incursions, as a spate of high-profile incidents spark concerns that adversaries could use drones to exploit weaknesses in US base security. The compromise version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, released on Saturday, includes several provisions aimed at improving the US military’s response to potential drone threats to its installations, including the creation of a counter-drone strategy. In addition to the mandate for the strategy — which was originally included in the...

West Point has acknowledged it inaccurately informed a media outlet that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, did not get accepted into the institution more than two decades ago. Earlier Wednesday, Hegseth posted on social media that ProPublica “is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999” without any additional information. He accompanied that with a picture of his acceptance letter into the institution. Hegseth did not attend West Point but rather Princeton University, graduating in 2003. A ProPublica editor subsequently acknowledged in response to...

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth -- in a dramatic and rare move -- on Tuesday fired one of the service's top generals following an Army inspector general investigation that concluded he improperly intervened in the process for selecting senior commanders. Gen. Charles Hamilton, who had been the head of Army Materiel Command, was removed after what officials described as a flagrant abuse of authority aimed at securing a leadership role for a subordinate officer who was found unfit for command and had an inappropriate relationship with the general, according to the IG report. The move marks the first time in nearly...

An investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents identified a migrant smuggling ring being operated by three U.S. Army Soldiers based at Fort Cavazos near Killeen, Texas.

U.S. Army post Fort Moore, formerly Fort Benning, is offering a $15,000 reward for information regarding more than 30 missing M17 pistols assumed stolen. The M17 became the Army’s official sidearm in 2017. Ammoland reported “Enhanced Night Vision Goggles (ENVGs) and an AN/PAS 13D Thermal Optic” are also missing.

WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald Trump’s new defense secretary takes the reins of the Pentagon next year, they may quickly be faced with an internal debate to settle: whether the Army should continue with its traditional role of providing defenses for air bases, or whether the Air Force steps up to the task on its own.At the core of the issue is not only the capabilities brought to the fight by each service, but how they will be funded. The Army has traditionally been charged with defending air bases, which is part of the reason why systems like Patriot and...

Deep within the ice sheet of Greenland lies a US military secret that hasn't been seen since the 1960s, but a NASA flyover earlier this year has provided an unprecedented look at the buried Cold War relic. Camp Century, constructed in 1959 by the US Army Corps of Engineers, was built directly into the ice sheet of Greenland, giving it an interior reminiscent of Echo Base on the frozen world of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. At the heart of the facility was the PM-2A portable nuclear reactor, which provided power for the sprawling "city under the ice" that...

ALEXANDRIA, VA - In an effort to root out racism, the Salvation Army announced they will no longer be accepting any donations in the form of bills or coins that have white people on them."Ever since we learned that racism is everywhere, all the time, ingrained in every aspect of life, we realized most U.S. currency depict the faces of white men who only did evil, racist things in their lives," said the Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army, Clurvis Bellman. "We then decided the best way to feed, clothe, and comfort the poor and needy is to stop accepting money...

SEOUL, Oct 16 (Reuters) - North Korean state media said on Wednesday around 1.4 million young people had applied to join or return to the army this week, blaming Seoul for a provocative drone incursion that had brought the "tense situation to the brink of war". The fiery rhetoric comes after North Korea last week accused Seoul of sending drones over Pyongyang that scattered a "huge number" of anti-North leaflets. The North then blew up inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the border on Tuesday, and warned that the South would "pay a dear price" The young...