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Army Chaplain Jailed For Drunken Behavior, Shoppette Gas Theft

November 2, 2020
Source: Getty Images KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — A series of bad decisions, from stealing gas to smashing the window of his estranged wife’s car, has landed an Army chaplain assigned to Stuttgart in jail for a month. Chaplain (Maj.) Donald V. Wood was sentenced Tuesday at a general court-martial, after a military judge found him guilty of larceny, conduct unbecoming an officer and a…
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Have Army Emergency Relief Debt? It Could Soon Be Canceled

November 2, 2020
Several hundred soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division were reunited with their families following a nine month deployment, July 23, 2019, at Fort Drum, New York. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Paige Behringer) More than 1,000 soldiers and Army families who received loans this…
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Army-Navy Game to Be Played at West Point This Year

November 2, 2020
U.S. Naval Academy quarterback (#2) Kriss Proctor runs the ball during the 112th Army-Navy Football game at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. 10 Dec 2011 (Photo: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad Runge) For the first time since World War II, the…
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NCOs Can Now Rank Their Assignment Preferences Under a New Army System

November 2, 2020
The Assignment Satisfaction Key – Enlisted Module for Army NCOs is scheduled to go Army-wide beginning Nov. 11, 2020 for the 21-01 enlisted manning cycle. (U.S. Army/Fonda Bock) For the first time, the U.S. Army will allow noncommissioned officers to rank where they would like to be assigned. Similar to its Assignment Interactive Module for officers, in use since 2016, the service…
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US Drone Strike Kills 17 Jihadists in NW Syria

November 2, 2020
U.S. military convoy drives through the town of Qamishli, north Syria, by a poster showing Syrain President Bashar Aassad Saturday, Oct. 26. 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) The U.S. Army said Thursday it carried out a drone strike against Al-Qaeda leaders in northwestern…
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UAE could get up to 50 F-35s in $10B sale

October 31, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department is backing the sale of as many as 50 F-35 joint strike fighters to the United Arab Emirates in an arms deal worth an estimated $10.4 billion, according to multiple reports. The news came as the Trump administration informally briefed Congress on its plan to sell the advanced F-35 fighter to the United Arab Emirates Thursday. It follows weeks of…
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Amid Emirati F-35 talks, Trump administration still ‘committed’ to congressional arms sale reviews

October 31, 2020
WASHINGTON ― Amid reports the Trump administration is fast-tracking sales of the high-tech F-35 warplane to the United Arab Emirates, the State Department remains committed to consulting Congress on arms sales to foreign governments, a senior administration official said Wednesday. The comments from Assistant Secretary Bureau of Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper seemed to signal the…
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