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Limited cell phone usage to be allowed for recruits in Navy boot camp
Allowing recruits to use their cellphones during basic training comes as the Navy eyes ways to lower attrition rates and increase interest in joining up.
By Diana Stancy
What could derail great power competition? A terrorist attack.
Special operations must continue counterterrorism and crisis response while also competing with peer adversaries such as Russia and China, experts said.
By Todd South
Special operations role in great power competition needs work
What will the role of special operations be as the U.S. competes with China and Russia?
By Todd South
Navy lowers entrance exam requirements in bid to get more recruits
The pilot program comes as the services struggle to attract new recruits into the ranks.
Air Force ditches ‘BEAST Week’ for new mock deployment training
"Pacer Forge" is a faster-paced mock deployment that lasts two days rather than four.
US Air Force seeks the aircraft equivalent of a Swiss Army knife
If a C-130 can act as bomber, a bomber can serve as a cargo plane, the argument goes.
KC-46 tanker test puts fuel boom operator, not copilot, in cockpit
The idea has raised eyebrows among military watchers who question its motives and safety.
A-10 Warthogs to brush up on maritime combat in Pacific deployment
The Air Force is reimagining the role of the A-10C attack plane, a counterterrorism mainstay, for a new kind of fight.
Major Hawaii-based Army exercise tests brigade in island-hopping fight
"The Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana does not look like Southeast Asia,” Flynn said. “But these eight Hawaiian Islands certainly do.”
By Todd South
Air Force’s first Pacific MQ-9 squadron comes at crossroads for drone
The 319th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron will provide eyes in the sky over east Asia.
This author sees opportunity for US in competition with China, Russia
The U.S. could get this moment right, or squander the opportunity.
By Todd South