Legislators Reconsider Gun Ban on Military Bases
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Two Marines Moving, a DC area moving company owned by a Marine veteran who employs vets, will now maintain “AT LEAST ONE” armed employee to oversee daily security, reports The Hill.
From the Halls of Montezuma to the shelves of GI Joe, the manufacturer of the Marine’s workhorse drone, K-MAX, plans to enter the commercial market with a single-seat, manned version as early as 2016, and a drone version is soon to follow, reports Fortune.
Three admirals lose retirement rank in the still unfolding scandal involving a port servicing contractor implicated in a wide-ranging bribery investigation, reports Navy Times.
The F/A-18 fighter jet had a reversal of fortunes when the Navy asked Congress to remove a dozen Super Hornets from a budget wishlist submitted in March, and free-up that $1.15 billion for other priorities, reports USNI.
Lockheed bids $9 billion for Sikorski, a win-win for buyer and seller, United Technologies Corp., says Breaking Defense.
In an increasingly familiar pattern, now that eight Littoral Combat Ships have been build, the design is fixed, the production runs smoothly, and the cost has dropped by a third, reports Breaking Defense. The Secretary of the Navy announced the next LCS will be named USS Cincinnati (LCS 20), reports Defense.gov. It will be the fifth ship in naval history to be named Cincinnati.
Have you seen it? Reminiscent of a historic, similar, emergency landing without wheels, here’s a YouTube video of a replica Spitfire doing it again.
Cybersecurity just got sexy, a marital infidelity site is hacked and sexual blackmail threatened, reports The Hill.
