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It’s a stretch to link the U.S. Army to witchery, but that’s happening in response to an eerie recruitment video shared on YouTube by Fort Bragg’s 4th Psychological Operations Group-Airborne. Titled “Ghosts in the Machine,” the video feels like a movie trailer and comes with no explanation other than: “All the world’s a stage. Join us.” The video, posted May 2, starts innocently, with benign clips of cartoons and images of empty city streets and subways. But the vibe grows increasingly disturbing, with footage of a shadowy man, anxious stares at dark skies, violent riot scenes and soldiers being deployed....

The U.S. Army, apparently interested in furthering its recent journey into wokeness, is considering a policy called a “compassionate reassignment” permitting soldiers to request a transfer to a different area if they feel state or local laws discriminate against them because of their gender. In addition to gender, sex, religion, race or pregnancy could be cited as discriminatory by the service member looking to move. “The policy would ostensibly sanction soldiers to declare that certain states are too racist, too homophobic, too sexist or otherwise discriminatory to be able to live there safely and comfortably,” Military.com reported. The guidance under...

ABERDEEN, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) – The former headquarters company commander at the Army Public Health Center (APHC) is facing court martial starting this week for allegedly violating the U.S. military’s COVID-19 protocols at Aberdeen Proving Ground.WBFF reports that the trial for 1st Lieutenant Mark Bashaw begins Friday over allegations that he failed to wear a mask indoors at the base, to which he reported and where he remained despite not submitting to a COVID-19 test. The Army Times adds that he specifically faces charges of “failure to obey lawful orders.” Bashaw had reportedly been ordered to telework instead of show up...

U.S. Army Reserve Soldier Sgt. Javion Siders, assigned to the 982nd Combat Camera Company (Airborne) conducts M4 Carbine marksmanship qualifications on Fort Jackson, S.C., April 9, 2022. The Army has awarded a 10-year, $20.4 million contract to Sig Sauer to replace the service’s M4 rifle with a new weapons system. (Spc. Eric Kestner/U.S. Army)The Army has awarded a 10-year, $20.4 million contract to Sig Sauer to replace the service’s M4 rifle with a new weapons system that officials said reduces aiming errors and brings the Army a new caliber of ammunition for the first time in 65 years.After a 27-month...

U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) sent more than a few pulses racing on Wednesday when they evacuated the Capitol Building over a suspicious aircraft that they later cleared as a “no threat.” “The USCP is tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol Complex,” said the initial announcement that sent Twitter into a fury

WILTON MANORS — The six college students who overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine Thursday in Wilton Manors have been identified as students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Sun Sentinel has learned. The football players were in town for Spring Break, renting a house in Wilton Manors that would become the scene of a desperate attempt to save lives. After using the drug, at least two students went immediately into cardiac arrest. Two students who hadn’t taken the drug tried to give their friend mouth-to-mouth and received enough fentanyl that way to suffer overdoses themselves. Fentanyl, commonly used...

Former impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed suit against key Donald Trump allies – including Donald Trump. Jr. and lawyer Rudy Giuliani – charging them with having falsely attacked his loyalty to the U.S. and punishing him for his testimony. Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, also lashed out at the defendants in an op-ed, where he cited his removal from the White House National Security Council and a delay in his Army promotion. 'I was attacked in a way calculated to inflict maximum personal and professional damage likely in order to prevent me from testifying or to punish...

U.S. Army commanders have relieved six soldiers from positions of leaderships and issued 2,994 general officer written reprimands in response to soldiers who have refused to comply with the COVID-19 vaccination order. Among the six relieved from leadership positions were two battalion commanders, the Army said in a Wednesday press release. But the service so far has not involuntarily discharged any soldiers solely for refusing the vaccine. The Army will be issuing guidance for discharging vaccine holdouts later this month, with the press release saying that 3,611 soldiers are still refusing to get the vaccine and have not received an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who join for six years, The Associated Press has learned, as the service struggles to lure soldiers into certain critical jobs during the continuing pandemic.... ...Vereen said the Army is doing more to address those types of concerns. Last fall the Army significantly increased the option to enlist for two years, expanding it to a total of 84 different career fields. And some will be able to choose where they will initially be assigned — a benefit Army...

The White House has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla to lead the U.S. Central Command. The nomination was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by The Hill. The Senate received a nomination for Kurilla on Wednesday ... If confirmed, Kurilla would replace Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who has helmed Central Command since March 2019. The Pentagon said there is nothing to announce at this time. Kurilla, a native of Elk River, Minn., currently serves as the commander of the 18th Airborne Corps in Fort Bragg, N.C., a role he has held . ...

The US Army is wrapping up early clinical trials on a universal vaccine it hopes will target all existing coronavirus variants. Named SpFN, for Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle, it has shown promise in non-human primate trials and early human trial results are expected "this month," according to a press release from the US Army Walter Reed Army Institute of Research released Thursday. The jab could also help protect against other coronaviruses beyond COVID-19, which offers hope against future pandemics. A new design The vaccine is designed on a new platform called "self-assembling protein nanoparticle." Unlike most currently available vaccines, which use...

Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as from previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide.The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. Very early on, Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch decided to focus on making a vaccine that would work against not just the existing strain but all of...

Typically, a case like Kevin Clinesmith's would end in disbarment, but not this time. Kevin Clinesmith, the former senior FBI lawyer who was placed on probation as a convicted felon for falsifying a surveillance document during the Trump-Russia investigation, has been returned to "good standing" as a member of the D.C. Bar Association. In August of 2020, Clinesmith pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that was then used to justify a surveillance warrant that targeted former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. As a result, Clinesmith was sentenced in January to 12 months probation, though the D.C. bar did not seek...

Ex-Army officer Brittany Ramos DeBarros, a socialist looking to replace GOP Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, bared more than her soul at an anti-war burlesque show at a Brooklyn bar, video obtained by The Post shows. “In the era when Democrats are seen as disorderly and out of control, all this does it make it more difficult to elect Democrats.”

Gotham’s far-left public advocate Jumaane Williams, who’s running to become the state’s next governor, has pushed to slash funding to the NYPD and Department of Defense. Yet he traverses the city with an NYPD security detail and he lives on a US military base where he enjoys free, around-the-clock security. The racial justice advocate resides just off General Lee Avenue, named after the Confederate military leader turned target of cancel-culture warriors, on the Fort Hamilton US Army Garrison in Brooklyn.... ..The sweetheart real estate deals are technically open to civilians, but still unknown to most New Yorkers... ..Joseph Rolland, a...

US special operators have played an instrumental role in the fight against terrorists and insurgent groups over the past 20 years. Now, as the Pentagon focuses on preparing for a conflict a near-peer or peer military, like China and Russia, the special-operations community is looking for ways to remain relevant in a completely different type of war. Army special-operations units are particularly concerned, as they make up most of the US Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) numbers.

...US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command or “DEVCOM,” a US Army-sponsored study by Texas A&M University has led to a development of an invention called a “centrifugal microfluidic platform,” which the Army says could have a major impact on the field of bioelectronics by accelerating the discovery of new biomaterials. Researchers’ published their findings earlier this year in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Materials Technologies. “There’s a lot more that we can do to engineer organisms than was possible even five or ten years ago, and it has really opened up doors for developing new ways of making materials and understanding...

For the first time in decades, members of the public will be allowed to walk on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Plaza — an honor typically reserved for presidents. "When we've seen the president in the past place the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, that's the same location where the public will be able to place flowers at the tomb," Gerald Lowe, who coordinates major events at the cemetery, told CBS News' Catherine Herridge. The area will be open to the public for the two-day event happening on November 9 and 10 at Arlington National Cemetery...

Now, that you’re gone Joe, I just wanted to say thanks for everything you’ve done for the country. You were around a long time, all the way back to 1775. You waged a lot of battles, fought plenty of bad guys and helped bring down evil empires. You crossed the Delaware with Washington, trudged endlessly through the steaming jungles of the South Pacific, climbed Pointe du Hoc to save the world and battled sandstorms and Jihadis from the 73 Easting to Tal Afar. As General MacArthur said so eloquently, “From one end of the world to another, you drained deep...

The U.S. Army intends to test an entire company of unmanned combat vehicles in simulated battle next year, a wargame that leaders called unprecedented and a big step toward refining the hardware and software that will one day enable wheeled robots to take the battlefield. Gen. Ross Coffman, the director of Army Futures Command’s Next Generation Combat Cross-Functional Team, told reporters at AUSA this week that the closest thing to the Army’s upcoming robot exercise at Fort Hood, Texas, was last year’s platoon-sized effort at Fort Carson, Colorado. For that exercise, the Army turned some old M113 armored personnel carriers...