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This Week’s Top Military Photos: Air Force Cadets Learn to Fly, Heroes Awarded, One Rests Easy

July 11, 2022
Cpl. Courtland Mabe, an anti-tank missile gunner with 2ndd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion reenlists in the ocean. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan Ramsammy) This week in the military, after 50 years, four veterans received the Medal of Honor for heroic actions during the Vietnam War; the Department of Justice launched an investigation into “Operation Lone Star,&#8221…
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Meet the Guardsman Helping Ukrainians Blow Up Russian Tanks over the Phone

June 3, 2022
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. They…
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Combat Death Puts Spotlight on Americans Fighting in Ukraine

May 2, 2022
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…
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Two Americans, Both Former Army, Wounded by Artillery in Ukraine Combat

April 28, 2022
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…
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Army to launch light robotic combat vehicle competition in FY23

April 28, 2022
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…
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