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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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When Pete Hegseth stepped into the role of Defense secretary in January 2025, the former Fox News host defined his own terms for success: “Warfighting, lethality, meritocracy, standards, and readiness. That’s it. That is my job.” A year and a half later, Hegseth has failed to meet even his own self-imposed standards.

US measles cases reach 35-year high

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed over 1,000 people

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Kyle was a Logistics Specialist Seaman Apprentice, according to the U.S. Navy. He enlisted on July 8 last year and reported to the future USS John F. Kennedy in Newport News in November, the Navy said.

The lower chamber voted 212-217 to reject the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). Four Republicans sided with Democrats to kill the measure.

Lockheed Martin is currently capable of building only six to seven rounds of the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile annually — around half of the sea service’s target production rate of 12 missiles per year, GAO found in a new report published Friday. Because the Navy jointly developed the hypersonic missile with the Army, production woes could impact both services’ plans to rapidly field the weapons at scale.

Scores of empty homes and collapsing buildings on a former Navy base in Alaska receive tax-funded internet access, an investigation by local reporters found.

He should know better... Hegseth’s form is so bad, multiple military fitness experts said he “fails on form” the service’s tests based on his videos, according to a report by The Atlantic’s Tom Bartlett headlined “Pete Hegseth, You Call That a Pull-Up?” Bartlett noted that Hegseth and the agency he oversees are the ones recording, editing, posting, and heavily promoting these videos (which he mockingly refers to as “Boot Camp Pete” episodes), and he’s the one who declared strict and harsh judgment was the way to go on military fitness issues.

US military slow to disclose Iran war injuries with officials citing security needs But dozens of unrecorded injuries remain, according to the Pentagon's top spokesperson, Sean Parnell, who said Monday afternoon in a post on X that "nearly 100 service members" have been injured since July 7. Most of the injuries are "minor concussions," he said.