Latest Army Cuts Will Hit Domestic Bases
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Army plans to cut another 40,000 soldiers during the next two years will impact all of its posts, reports USA Today. The Washington Post reports on what the reduction will do at one post, Fort Drum in rural Jefferson County, New York.
The Navy will be buying 29 new P-8A Poseidon jetsfor US and Australia, reports Military Aerospace.
Is it the gap or the price of carriers causing the Navy its biggest readiness problem? asks Breaking Defense.
An F-16 fighter jet hit a Cessna over SC, killing the two Cessna passengers, the pilot ejected and was uninjured, reported PilotOnline.
Two F-22 Raptor jets flew off their Air Force base in Alaska July 4 to intercept two Russian bombers on patrol missions, reports The Aviationist.
The OPM director defended the agency in the wake of the recent federal-employee data hack and noted a lack of funding for information technology, reports the National Journal.
Washington Business Journal reports as many as 57 percent of men compared to 7 percent of women negotiate for better compensation, and offers some negotiating strategies.
The oldest active aircraft carrier in the world heads into the dock to become a museum in the Kakinada port in the Bay of Bengal, on the eastern shore of India, reports USNI. Commissioned in 1959 into the Royal Navy as HMS Hermes, and transferred to India in 1987.
