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The U.S. Navy used its munitions at an "alarming rate" to defend Israel from recent Iranian strikes, a military official said Tuesday, raising questions from lawmakers about how it intends to replace and maintain stockpiles amid global threats. Admiral James Kilby, Naval Operations acting chief, made the remark in his testimony during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Navy’s budget in Washington when Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, asked about the Navy’s available munitions to defend against global threats.

Personnel leadership saw the contract as one of the pivotal efforts to modernize Navy HR systems. But Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer Jane Rathbun, along with the Department of Government Efficiency, killed it — ignoring warnings that the move would stall progress, cripple promotion boards and hurt the Navy’s ability to recruit and retain talent, according to a document submitted to the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee by Navy personnel officials, obtained by Federal News Network and verified by the subcommittee.

Tuesday Tacos... Iran still has "considerable" abilities to threaten American forces and other interests in the Middle East despite Israeli and U.S. bombardment in recent days, the admiral nominated to lead U.S. forces in the region told lawmakers Tuesday.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – What’s on your to-do list this summer? Maybe you’re planning to spend time at the pool, go to a barbecue, or take a vacation. But don’t take a vacation from your health this summer. “Now can be a great time for you and your family to catch up on preventive health care and take care of other health needs,” said Jeannine Pickrell, M.S., RN, director for Population Health and Disease Management, TRICARE Health Plan, at the Defense Health Agency. Here are four suggested ways you can use your TRICARE benefits this summer:

Freedom of the Press... CBS is once again blasting President Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against the network’s “60 Minutes” Kamala Harris interview as “meritless” and an attempt to “evade bedrock First Amendment principles” in a new filing with the Texas federal court.

Tuesday Tacos... The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it. The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.

I struggled to keep a job. I started using my GI Bill for nursing school, just to end up too depressed to continue. I felt, and sometimes still do, like any day now I’ll just wake up back on the ship. After a year or so, I couldn’t take it. I tried VA. The first psychiatrist I saw diagnosed me with PTSD like it was the common cold, dismissing me with an Ambien prescription. It helped, but I was afraid of becoming dependent, so I never refilled it. Other therapists were quick to push religion, which doesn’t align with me. Aside from that, their help was mostly handouts and suggestions for activities like equine therapy.

When aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) chops into U.S. Central Command in the coming days, it will be the fifth carrier to operate in the Middle East since the U.S. resumed deployments to the region in late 2023.

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The MACO program is available to E-6 and senior Active Duty and Training and Administration of the Reserves (TAR) members in the Information Systems Technician (IT) and Cyber Warfare Technician (CWT) ratings. It is designed to educate students on a range of operational and technical topics in defensive and offensive cyberspace operations, including computer network attack, active and passive defense, exploitation, cyber analysis via automated and manual toolsets, operations, policy, and engineering. 3. Applicants must meet the following eligibility requirements to apply: a. Must possess a Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant technical field including, but not limited to, computer science, electrical engineering, and information or engineering technology. The degree must have been awarded by an institution of higher learning, with Institutional Accreditation recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. To meet NPS academic requirements, performance in technical courses, including mathematics, must be exemplary. b. Must be E-6 or senior to be eligible and within one's 12-month orders negotiation window, commensurate with course start dates of January 2027 or July 2027. c. Per reference (a), candidates must be eligible to incur a 5-year active-duty service obligation by reenlistment or extension of enlistment prior to NPS enrollment. Selectees will be required to reenlist more than 1- year earlier, if they are unable to satisfy the 5-year obligated service requirement. Per reference (b), payment of the selective reenlistment bonus is not authorized for selectees who reenlist for the purpose of meeting the obligated service requirement. d. Must be within Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) standards and must have passed the most recent PFA. e. Must have no evaluation marks below 3.0 within the last five years. f. Must hold, or be eligible for, a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance. Applicants without a current TS/SCI clearance are still encouraged to apply if their clearance can be initiated by their Special Security Office (SSO) and adjudicated before the class convening dates. Orders to NPS will not be issued until TS/SCI clearance is finalized. g. Must possess a conditional letter of acceptance. To obtain a conditional letter of acceptance, applicants should apply to NPS at https://nps.edu/web/admissions/apply. Once registered, select Applied Cyber Operations, curriculum number 336. Upon application submission, applicants must arrange for submission of official transcripts to the NPS admissions office from each institution attended for all undergraduate and graduate education, as well as all Sailor/Marine American Council on Education Registry Transcripts, or Joint Services Transcripts. NPS applications must be submitted to NPS no later than 31 December 2025. Applicants will be notified by NPS via e-mail regarding their conditional acceptance. Prior application submissions to this program do not disqualify an applicant. However, applicants who did not receive previous conditional acceptance from NPS, and have no additional academic qualifications, should not apply again, as the academic standards have not changed. 4. Application letter template may be obtained by contacting the NAVIFOR MACO Program Coordinator via email NAVIFOR_MACO(AT)us.navy.mil. Completed applications must be sent via encrypted e-mail or DOD SAFE (https://safe.apps.mil) to NAVIFOR MACO Program within two weeks of notification of conditional acceptance by NPS. 5. Selectees will be assigned to Navy-funded education as full-time students under permanent change of station orders to Monterey, CA, with either a January 2027 or July 2027 start. As full-time students, Sailors will be required to carry a full academic load year-round. Degree requirements shall be completed in 15 months. Per reference (c), E-7/E-8 selectees enrolled in the MACO program are eligible to submit an Exception to Policy for promotion; approval authority resides with Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP). 6. Selection results will be disseminated via official e-mail from a Naval Information Force (NAVIFOR) MACO Program Officer. Due to the highly competitive nature of this program, notification of selection via official email is a binding commitment which selectees must accept or decline within five working days of receipt. 7. Graduates of the MACO program will earn the H07A Navy Enlisted Classification and should expect to serve in a utilization tour immediately following graduation. Graduates will contact their respective Detailer 6 months prior to graduation to negotiate follow-on PCS Orders. 8. The point of contact for this program can be contacted via e-mail at NAVIFOR_MACO(AT)us.navy.mil. 9. 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Base Housing U.S. Troops in Iraq Also Attacked The Ain al-Assad base housing U.S. troops in western Iraq was also targeted, an Iraqi security official who was not authorized to comment publicly told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. But Iran did not claim credit for that attack, which could have been carried out by militias. It was not immediately clear if there was damage to the Iraq base or any injuries.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran launched missile attacks Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites and escalating tensions in the volatile region.

The Department of Defense has revealed new video footage of another aircraft encounter. They describe the object as a massive "disc-shaped UAP" with an abnormal heat signature weaving through the clouds and changing directions in a way that cannot be explained.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn't know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month. When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.

Narciso Barranco, the 48-year-old landscaper who was seized off the street, has three sons who are U.S. Marines, including two on active duty, the oldest son, 25-year-old Alejandro Barranco, said in an interview on Sunday.

The United States carried out a middle–of-the-night attack using decoys and deception that completely “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has declared. But Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine immediately undercut this, telling reporters that while an initial assessment indicated “severe damage and destruction,” it would take time for the final battle damage to be known.

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is having a moment. The rising Democratic star sits down with Katie for a candid, no-holds-barred conversation about what drives her, what frustrates her, and why she refuses to play by the old political rules. From her viral moments on Capitol Hill to the serious challenges facing democracy, Crockett shares what’s on her mind and why this moment demands leaders who won’t back down.

trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict. There was no immediate acknowledgment from Iran

Some believe UFOs are nothing but figments of people’s imaginations, or at best atmospheric ilusions; others think they are earthly secret technology; while some are convinced that these unidentified craft are of alien origin (or at least reverse-engineered alien tech). But whatever these objects may be, the unidentified aerial phenomenon is a reality, and public interest in the matter does not seem to wane.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is moving B-2 bombers to the Pacific island of Guam, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether the United States should take part in Israel's strikes against Iran.

Over the years, Trump has promised action on policy issues from tax legislation to minimum wage increases to health care within two weeks. He's hinted at conspiracy theories to be resolved and policy decisions to be revealed within a fortnight — only for his announcements to materialize months later or not at all.

Donald Trump is sidestepping his own defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, while seeking advice on whether to launch a military strike against Iran, according to a report. An unnamed U.S. official told The Washington Post that the president is instead turning to a couple of four-star generals for guidance on whether to join Israel in attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, with the head of the Pentagon being largely left out. “Nobody is talking to Hegseth,” the official said. “There is no interface operationally between Hegseth and the White House at all.”

Update: NCIS finds sailor nearly 2 weeks after disappearance