The Space Force has spent the past two years pushing artificial intelligence past pilot programs and into daily use, from launch control rooms to satellite operations centers. Some of it comes down from the Pentagon as enterprise-wide software; some of it is built by individual units solving staffing problems they’re living with day to day. Here are six ways AI is already up and running inside the Space Force. The 1st Range Operations Squadron at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, built two AI tools to keep pace with a launch schedule that grew from 19 launches in 2019 to more…
Operation Enduring Freedom began Oct. 7, 2001, when U.S. and British forces launched airstrikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan, less than a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command’s official account of the operation. This month marks 25 years since that first strike. The war it opened would become the longest in U.S. history, stretching across four presidential administrations before its final, chaotic weeks in August 2021. From Enduring Freedom to Freedom’s Sentinel Operation Enduring Freedom’s combat mission formally concluded Dec. 28, 2014, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.…
The Pentagon’s new testosterone screening policy requires medical providers to ask a service member who is undergoing screening about plans for children before writing a single treatment prescription. If the answer is yes to children, or hasn’t decided, the policy bars starting standard testosterone therapy and requires an alternative drug that preserves fertility instead, according to the Defense Health Agency’s Clinical Practice Guideline for Testosterone Deficiency in the Male Service Member, dated Sept. 17, 2026. That requirement, not the widely reported 300 nanogram-per-deciliter threshold that triggers screening, is what a men’s health physician who closely reviewed the policy says matters…
A Philadelphia woman is safe and sound after police say a masked man smashed his way into her apartment early Wednesday morning. The alleged intruder, on the other hand, is neither alive nor well, thanks to the fact that the woman was able to defend herself with a gun. According to Philadelphia police, the break-in occurred around 5 AM Wednesday at an apartment building in the city’s Frankford neighborhood. Investigators say a 29-year-old man wearing a ski mask shattered a second-floor window and climbed inside the apartment, where he was confronted by the woman who…
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When bullying happens to your child, you want something done about it. I tend to think an old-school butt-whooping from the victim does more good than anything, but I’ve been informed by more than one school administrator that such behavior isn’t acceptable. I’m just going to say, after the one where my kid had to be dragged off of the would-be bully, he never had a problem again. Anyway, it’s tough for a father to deal with it, because what was considered normal in our day isn’t today, and in some cases, the bullies are…
If you read my story about the Violence Policy Center’s so-called study, you had to know that sooner or later, the media would get hold of it. While I kind of expected the New York Times or someone to get hold of it and make a thing of it, I still knew someone would if they declined. And, sure enough, someone has.There’s this report out of South Carolina, and we need to talk about it.South Carolina’s rate of women killed by men remained above the national average in 2024, according to a nationwide study highlighted…
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A pilot on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel stabbed another pilot Wednesday and then apparently tried to crash the jetliner carrying around 170 people, Israel’s prime minister said. Passengers and crew subdued the attacker, and the plane landed safely in Saudi Arabia. As some passengers screamed, the FlyDubai flight issued an emergency alert and abruptly descended thousands of feet (meters). Israel scrambled warplanes amid concerns about a possible hijacking. As a plane carrying passengers from the flight landed Wednesday evening in Israel, it was not clear what motivated the attack. Video…
If a policy that won preliminary approval in the Lexington-Richland 5 school district this week is implemented, students may be protected by armed school staff in the future. Then again, they might not, even if the district allows for the practice. That’s because the policies that the district is planning on putting in place are so burdensome that officials might not find any staffers willing to shoulder the responsibility. The newly-drafted ordinance requires staff carrying weapons to wear a district Security Department badge visible or “clothing that clearly identifies the employee as a member of the…
An Illinois woman’s quest to enact new gun regulations through court action appears to have hit another brick wall, this time courtesy of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Shanice Mathews has been waging her court battle against the state of Illinois and the Illinois State Police for eight years now, with the help of Brady’s legal team at times. The hearing before the appellate court on Tuesday involved her fourth amended complaint seeking injunctive relief, and each and every time the courts have turned her away.  Mathews is seeking a court-imposed order to FFL’s in…
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has removed U.S. forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base in Iraq, in a move that concludes the Operation Inherent Resolve mission in the country. The U.S. launched Operation Inherent Resolve in 2014 to defeat the terrorist group ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Some 2,000 Americans went to the country to participate in the mission, officials said at the time. The U.S. and its allies dismantled a brutal ISIS “caliphate” by training and advising over 250,000 local security forces, shifting the region from active conflict to stabilization while permanently anchoring Iraqi independence and regional security. In…
I grew up hunting and fishing with my father. There were times I was bored off my butt, sitting in a boat, saying nothing, just waiting for a fish to bite, but in hindsight, those are the moments that stick out to me now that Dad is gone. It was something we shared. But hunting was solitary. It might be freezing cold, and I might have gone into the woods with Dad, but it was the first taste of responsibility. I already knew the damage a .303 British round could inflict, at least to some…
Military spouses who are heading out to other Air Force installations can now seek help finding civilian jobs through the Department of the Air Force’s Global Military Spouse Connection program. The Air Force said in a release that it expanded the program to five additional destinations. The available bases are below: United States: Luke Air Force Base, Arizona; Goodfellow and Laughlin Air Force Bases, Texas; Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho; Travis Air Force Base, California; and Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. Germany: Ramstein Air Base. United Kingdom: RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Lakenheath and RAF Feltwell. Japan: Kadena Air…
Active-duty military personnel and their spouses will soon benefit in their employment endeavors due to a new law going into effect Thursday. On Oct. 1 in Maryland, legislation known as the Modernizing Civil Relief for Service Members Act kicks in and allows active-duty service members and their spouses who relocate to the state pursuant to military orders to practice under a valid occupational or professional license issued by another state, provided they meet specified eligibility requirements and remain in good standing with their licensing authority. The bill, signed into law May 26 by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, aims to reduce…
Midterm elections are fast approaching. A former governor told Military.com that active-duty military personnel who plan to vote should be privy to their rights and engage in their civic duty. Hundreds of thousands of American military members worldwide are under pressure to make sure they are registered to vote for the elections taking place Nov. 3, notably requesting and receiving an absentee ballot so they can be returned in time for tabulation. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican and U.S. Army veteran, told Military.com he is reminding all active-duty service members of their rights and protections in the voting…
Western veterans, including U.S. veterans, are reportedly training Russians to fight in Ukraine. A leaked intelligence memo compiled for Five Eyes intelligence agencies found with “strong confidence” that Russia has recruited the veterans to train their citizens as well as “active duty military” via a European combat camp, as initially reported by The Telegraph earlier this month. The memo said the combat camp in northern Bulgaria, run by military training company Alfa-Metal, employs instructors from U.S. police forces and U.S. Navy SEALs, as well as instructors from other backgrounds—including the SAS and the Australian Commando Regiment. Alfa-Metal denied these allegations.…
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