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Hedgehog also fired Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, who is chief of the Navy Reserve, as well as Rear Adm. Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversees Naval Special Warfare Command, another U.S. official said.

WASHINGTON — The Defense Health Agency that oversees more than 700 military hospitals and clinics worldwide disclosed Thursday that it made a buyout offer to an unidentified number of civilian personnel to be considered for lump-sum payouts to leave their jobs under a restructuring of the federal agency. Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-08-21/defense-health-agency-buyouts-18837223.html Source - Stars and Stripes

Navy Installations Command has launched a campaign to raise awareness among parents and caregivers about window safety in military housing after two small children fell to their deaths from windows this summer at Naval Base San Diego. Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-08-21/navy-safety-falling-windows-18839844.html Source - Stars and Stripes

A pilot is safe following a crash of a Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet while flying off the Virginia coast on Wednesday morning, according to the service. The pilot, assigned to the “Rampagers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 83 ejected during a routine training flight around 9:50 a.m. While the Navy release did not say where the pilot ejected, the “Rampagers” are based out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Va.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is searching the Maryland home of John Bolton, who served in President Donald Trump's first administration as national security adviser but later became critical of the president, as part of an investigation into the handling of classified documents, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.

It is instances like this one, incidents that go completely contrary to our country's founding as a democracy (Constitutional Federal Republic,) that make me continue to post against what that dictator trump is doing. Please do not support trump - our democracy is at stake... LOS ANGELES—George Retes, a U.S. citizen and Iraq War veteran, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies for three days and three nights. During that time, he was denied access to an attorney, was not allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell. He missed his daughter’s third birthday. He was never charged with a crime.

This is a good strategy that I'm sure is going to get Dictator trump upset... There’s Newsom on Mount Rushmore. There’s Newsom getting prayed over by Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and an angelic, winged Hulk Hogan. There’s Newsom posting in all caps, saying his mid-cycle redistricting proposal has led “MANY” people to call him “GAVIN CHRISTOPHER ‘COLUMBUS’ NEWSOM (BECAUSE OF THE MAPS!). THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”

“NORTHCOM was previously sidelined in any Mexico planning, the conventional special operations components mostly involved in joint training with their Mexican counterparts and non-lethal missions such as at-sea interdictions of shipments, but now it is being tasked to be the hemispheric synchronizer, of a far larger magnitude” says the senior intelligence official. One reason is that prospective attacks also have to coordinate with the intelligence community at large, the FBI, and various homeland security agencies (such as Border Patrol and ICE) who all now are focused on Mexico (and are conducting their own operations inside Mexico).

“I’ve never seen this many security teams for one guy,” the official said. “Nobody has.” Historically about 150 of the agency’s approximately 1,500 agents serve on VIP security details, according to people familiar with the matter, who said that when Hegseth took office a call went out for many more. Now there are hundreds assigned to personal protective duty, these people said. One person characterized the figure as “400 and going up.” Another said it’s “over 500.”

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We have a lunatic as a commander-in-chief, that's all there is to it. Apocalypse Two, coming to a theater near you... The problem(s) with Trump declaring himself a ‘war hero’

He told the Washington Post in 2015 of his repeated Vietnam-era deferments: “I’ve always felt somewhat guilty because I didn’t serve like many other people.” In 2019 he cited a desire to “make up for it.” His method of compensating for that? Comparing his sacrifices to those of actual service members.

Twenty members of the Defense Department are set to begin working as special assistant U.S. attorneys — federal prosecutors — in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia next week, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News. Tim Lauer, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, confirmed the move, saying members of the Judge Advocate General Corps would be joining the office, though he did not know how long the detail would last.

As a journalist in Afghanistan, Abdul says he helped promote American values like democracy and freedom. That work, he said, resulted in him being tortured by the Taliban after the US withdrew from the country in 2021. Now he's in California applying for political asylum, amid the looming threat of deportation. "We trusted those values," he said. "We came here for safety, and we don't have it, unfortunately."

A U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment, embarked aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Sampson, seized 1,296 pounds of cocaine while conducting the maritime interdiction operation.

The Pentagon announced a new military decoration that will recognize service members stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the Trump administration’s effort to bolster border security.

CFL/ACFLs, The CFL is responsible for maintaining PRIMS access and assign UIC(s) to the designated ACFL(s) within PRIMS. Not having a CFL onboard with PRIMS access is NOT a sufficient reason for PRP Office to assign UICs on the command’s behalf. Per OPNAVINST 6110.1K, commands must have a designated CFL. For all ACFL account creation requests, the submission must come directly from the CFL to askmncc.fct@navy.mil. The required ACFL Designation letter and SAAR Form must indicate the primary UIC of responsibility and any additional UICs in block 13 that the ACFL will be supporting with the CFL. Upon receiving the required documents from the CFL, MyNavy HR Tier-1 will elevate the case to Tier-2 for account creation in eCRM/Salesforce. Tier-2 will respond directly to the CFL once the ACFL account has been created. CFL will assign the ACFL to the responsible UICs within PRIMS by using the UIC Assignment Tile located on the right-hand side of the PRIMS Homepage. Step-by-step instructions regarding UIC assignment are available within the CFL PRIMS Training Course at https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Support-Services/Culture-Resilience/Physical-Readiness/PRIMS-Training/ .

Japan’s coast guard and military are helping the Navy battle a blaze that broke out aboard an amphibious transport docking ship off Okinawa’s southeastern coast on Wednesday evening. Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-08-20/uss-new-orleans-fire-okinawa-18822804.html Source - Stars and Stripes