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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — World War II veteran Gordon Wallace has witnessed more than a century of history. But some of the memories that shaped his life most came from his time serving in the United States Navy, when a young farm boy from Oklahoma found himself traveling across the country and eventually serving at Pearl Harbor.

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Heavier fighting in Iran could resume in the coming weeks as military reinforcements arrive and some U.S. personnel leave the region. This shift comes as a person briefed on the U.S. and Israel's war planning told NPR that the countries were preparing plans for a possible attack on Iran after the U.S. midterms.

Deadline is Friday for US House members to sign a letter to the VA Secretary asking to make rare disease presumptive. Three Georgia lawmakers have joined the effort.

The globe, which is now housed in the Pentagon, dates back to the 1930s and was reportedly used by Eisenhower during World War II, making it an extremely delicate artifact that needed to be handled with care. But a task that should have been delegated to archivists or museum professionals was instead handled by Hegseth’s own staff, who dropped the globe when they tried to move it to the defense secretary’s office early this year, The Washington Post reported.

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After a 10-month deployment that was extended twice, including 40 days of combat operations against Iran that kept sailors at sea for 265 days without a port call, the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln and their families are preparing to move to a new base just weeks after arriving home. By the end of this year, the aircraft carrier will shift its home port from San Diego, California, to Bremerton, Washington, for long-planned maintenance, a Navy spokesperson told Task & Purpose. The Navy has set Dec. 31, 2026, as the administrative date for the change.

Radiant's Kaleidos is a factory-built, 1 MW high-temperature gas-cooled transportable microreactor. Described by the company as "plug-in ready" for direct deployment on site, each reactor provides up to five years of power before refuelling across a 20-year life and requires no cooling water, no major excavation and no extensive on-site construction.

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President Donald Trump warned he’d send “no money” to poisoned veterans if Republicans did not win the House and Senate in November, marking a new low for his shoddy midterms campaign. Speaking at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday, Trump promised that if Republicans kept control of Congress, he’d direct the Department of Justice to “settle all remaining legitimate claims” made by the victims of contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

The U.S. military has also been quietly reducing its footprint at posts in the Middle East due to ongoing regional threats from the Houthis and direct threats from Iran, a U.S. official and a senior U.S. military official told CBS News on Wednesday.

The relocation is expected to be completed later this year and executed as a permanent change of station for the aircraft carrier’s crew and family members. The move, while long planned, had left many family members in limbo after the USS Abraham Lincoln’s routine six-month deployment was extended twice after the U.S. jointly launched Operation Epic Fury with Israel on Feb. 28.

He has pushed out the department's most senior civilian officials, purged aides and, according to a Pentagon source, provoked widespread disillusionment. Some figures believe Mr Hegseth is a genuine "threat to national security", while others simply "don't like him", another source said.

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They described living with their children through traumatic days under fire in Bahrain, jolting during constant alerts on their phones warning of incoming missiles, seeing smoke clouds from bombs that hit buildings of the base and hearing the booms of interceptor missiles blowing up incoming Iranian drones and rockets.

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – TRICARE Open Season begins Monday, Nov. 9. If you’re eligible for TRICARE, this is your chance to enroll in a health plan or change plans for coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2027. You can make eligible changes through Tuesday, Dec. 8. Keep reading for answers to common questions about TRICARE Open Season

And yet Hegseth's latest announcements suggest that he has learned remarkably little from his experiences. At a recent address at Quantico, he declared that the "warrior ethos has been revived" and "American deterrence is back," even as he announced plans to eliminate 20 percent of general and admiral positions. He also briefly championed a plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, turning military violence into a public spectacle supposedly meant to demonstrate U.S. resolve, before a public backlash—strong enough to push Trump away from the planned display of public cruelty—put the kibosh on those plans. Still, the dissonance is jarring: The defense secretary is so thoroughly preoccupied with projecting toughness and glorifying lethality, all while presiding over a war that has exposed the limits of U.S. power potentially even more than its debacles in Vietnam and Iraq.

A former senior official in the George W. Bush administration has delivered a scathing critique of President Trump’s military strategy, claiming that the administration has committed a stunning strategic error despite America's considerable military superiority.

During her tenure at the helm of the VA’s OIG, Mason has overseen significant staff cuts and watered down the office’s oversight work, according to some employees, who argue that services for veterans are less effective and efficient as a result.

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