Navy Relocation Assistance, Detailing, PCS Orders & Assignments

The Pentagon said on Friday the US will be withdrawing roughly 5,000 troops from Germany over the next year. The move, which comes after President Donald Trump lashed out the German chancellor over his criticism of the US war with Iran, would still leave more than 30,000 US troops in the country.

😔  On paper, the war in Iran should not be much of a contest. The United States spends around $1 trillion a year on its military, more than 100 times as much as Iran. That money buys a vastly larger Air Force and Navy, as well as advanced weapons technologies that Iranian generals can only dream about.

“This is the hill that I'm willing to die on. … There is nothing OK about threats of violence, racial violence in the military or anywhere in the world for that matter. We can't allow this type of environment to exist in the Army. It's not OK, our soldiers deserve better.”

A US Navy warship lost power and propulsion for several hours in the Indo-Pacific on Tuesday, a US defense official said, after suffering what a Navy statement called an “engineering casualty” in its electrical system. Such a situation would leave the ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins, and its crew of about 300 “helpless” in the water, a naval analyst told CNN. There were no injuries among those aboard, the Navy said.

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