The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) and the ships and aircraft of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 2, the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG), departed for deployment Feb. 18, after successfully completing a historic Composite Unit Training Exercise (COMPTUEX), that included a NATO vignette and training with SEALS from an East …
THOR Army partners with Air Force’s THOR for base defense In an effort to counter the increasing threat posed by enemy drones and other airborne threats, the U.S. Army is making an investment in directed energy prototype technology, with the Tactical High Power Operational Responder, or THOR, system, developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland …
Iraqi Government Examines In-Country Missile Attacks on U.S. Bases Rubble remains after an indirect fire attack at Irbil Air Base in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Feb. 15, 2021. Photo By: Army Maj. Brian Burns FEB. 23, 2021 | BY C. TODD LOPEZ, DOD NEWS The Iraqi government is investigating three attacks on U.S. bases in the …
Aerial view of Alcatraz Island, January 1932 Alcatraz Escape In its heyday, it was the ultimate maximum security prison. FBI Located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz—aka “The Rock”—had held captives since the Civil War. But it was in 1934, the highpoint of a major war on crime, that …
The hunt for Communists in the United States clearly reached the point of hysteria by the early 1950s, but what is often overlooked is that it had its origins in a very real phenomenon. The opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s, and the declassification of certain intercepted Soviet messages from the late 1940s, …
Beginning this week, with the support of the Government of Mexico and international humanitarian organizations, the United States will begin to process current residents of the Matamoros camp in Mexico.UN agencies today will begin to prepare individuals and families in the informal camp in Matamoros, Mexico for entry to the United States in line with …
Imminent Alert Department of Homeland Security Bulletin warns of a credible, specific and impending terrorism threat against the United States. Issued 27 January. Expires 30 April. Summary The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes …
Officer finds alleged kidnapper with 14-year-old victim, gets shot “multiple times) by the suspect, Gregory Hoyt of Lawenforcement today reported. The incident that unfolded on February 20th was in relation to the kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl who was said to have been abducted in North Carolina and had been missing since February 11th. At approximately …
From the crest of Mount Suribachi, the Stars and Stripes wave in triumph over Iwo Jima after U.S. Marines had fought their way inch by inch up its steep lava-encrusted slopes. Ca. February 1945. PhoM3c. John Papsun. (Coast Guard) The battle, beginning with three Marine divisions invading the eight-square mile island on Feb. 19, 1945, …
