Sgt. 1st Class Chris Freymann trained roughly 200 Ukrainian soldiers on the Javelin. (Courtesy Chris Freymann)
Sgt. 1st Class Chris Freymann never thought he’d have such a direct role in the fight against Russian forces invading Ukraine. But as the war raged, he became a kind of ad hoc, over-the-phone tech support for Ukrainians trying to use Javelin missiles while under fire.
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The Army Advocacy Center on Fort Belvoir which opened in May 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Margaret Steele)
The Army has opened a new school at Fort Belvoir in Virginia that is designed to provide advanced training to military lawyers, including defense attorneys.
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Eddy Etue, an American who left home for Ukraine to help in the fight against Russia, is shown in a self portrait taken on Sunday, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Eddy Etue)
Harrison Jozefowicz quit his job as a Chicago police officer and headed overseas soon after Russia invaded…
A Russian army tank moves through a street on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
KYIV, Ukraine — Two Americans volunteering in Ukraine’s armed forces were wounded by artillery fire during combat in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, April 27.
U.S. Army veterans Paul Gray and Manus McCaffery were on a mission to destroy a…
A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft assigned to the 34th Fighter Squadron receives fuel from a KC-10 Extender aircraft over Poland, Feb. 24, 2022. The Government Accountability Office raised concerns about rising modernization costs and testing delays for the F-35.
As Raytheon struggles to replenish Stinger missiles, lawmaker pushes Defense Production Act
April 28, 2022
U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade practice acquiring a target with a FIM-92 Stinger during an air defense live-fire exercise alongside soldiers with the Croatian Air Defense Regiment. This training is part of Exercise Shield 22 at Kamenjak near…
In the summer of 2020 at Fort Carson, Colorado, modified Bradley Fighting Vehicles, known as Mission Enabling Technologies Demonstrators, and modified M113 tracked armored personnel carriers, or Robotic Combat Vehicles, were used for the Soldier Operational Experimentation (SOE) Phase 1 to further develop learning objectives for the Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) concept. (Photo courtesy of the…
A Boeing-made Australian E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft pictured in 2014. The Air Force said it has selected the Wedgetail to replace some of its aging E-3 Sentry aircraft. (Melina Young/Royal Australian Air Force via Getty Images)
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A VC-25A Air Force One aircraft sits on a ramp at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska during a brief stop Jan. 22. The aircraft is one of two modified Boeing 747 Airliners that serve as a transport aircraft for the President of the United States. (Josh Plueger/Air…
In a U.S. Army-led test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missile broke its own distant record to take out an air-breathing target simulating a cruise missile or fixed-wing aircraft. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin)
WASHINGTON — The Army is pushing a new plan for a future air-defense interceptor that would replace…
