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A Missouri community united to give a Navy veteran with no family a proper military funeral. “Today, we are honoring a homeless veteran, John Benjamin Philpot,” Ben Ortiz Sr., a Vietnam veteran, said Thursday at the Higginsville State Veterans Cemetery.

Iran - Forever War... The five-month-long conflict has exposed America’s strategic vulnerabilities and reflected poorly on the Pentagon’s reputation, some analysts add. U.S. firepower, overwhelming though it may be, has so far failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or bring the regime back to the negotiating table.

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Trump's former top food official: Cyclospora outbreak ‘approaching catastrophic’ level

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I'd say that Sen. Kelley's remark on the military's lack of leadership is spot on... Navy revises what information about sailors can be released, citing internal misinterpretation

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What he's saying: "I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it," the president said.

The U.S. Navy Reserve is offering enlisted sailors, officers and civilians sizable financial incentives to remain or join the service, the Navy announced Wednesday. Beginning June 1, 2026, individuals may qualify for several different bonus enlistment packages from the Navy Reserve as part of the fiscal 2026/2027 Recruiting and Retention Incentive Program.

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commander-in-chief trying to manipulate the numbers to make them seem lower... At an event on Thursday, Trump again argued that the death toll from his war on Iran was low compared to that of Vietnam, the war he did not serve in as a young man. "You know, we were in Vietnam for 20 years, lost thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives," Trump said, inflating the actual death toll among US troops of 58,220.

Two former officers told MS NOW they were pushed out of their jobs and forced to retire early after questioning command decisions. The officers spoke on the condition of anonymity due to concerns that the Pentagon would retaliate against them and try to strip their retirement pensions.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) pushed back this week against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new proposal to add testosterone screenings to service members’ periodic health assessments. “The U.S. military does not need more testosterone; it needs better leadership,” Kelly said on MS NOW’s “The Briefing with Jen Psaki” on Monday.

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US health officials are investigating a new outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite

Disgraceful POS... “They are indeed great heroes, actually. All of them said very strongly, ‘We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon’ ... So we’re going to honor them,” Trump told reporters shortly before the servicemembers’ dignified transfers.

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WASHINGTON/RIYADH, July 22 (Reuters) - Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S. intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information or advanced drone technology, said four people familiar with U.S. intelligence.

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The base, which houses the Naval Postgraduate School, the Naval Research Lab and Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, received a DGX GB300 computer — billed as the highest-performing AI processing system available for enterprises — under a cooperative research and development agreement between NPS and AI giant NVIDIA that began in December 2024.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy is taking a major step to restrict press access to information about service members by no longer releasing information about any sailor’s service history — information that has been freely offered by the service for decades.

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