Posted by Java Joe on June 5, 2023 · Leave a Comment
A growing list of Republican leaders are sending their state National Guard soldiers or other state law enforcement officers to the US border with Mexico. Gov. Wes Moore (D) said last week that “Maryland’s not doing that. Right now, what Maryland is doing — Maryland is focusing on public safety here. Maryland is focusing on our schools here. Maryland is focusing on the myriad of challenges and the myriad of opportunities that we have here in the state of Maryland … .”
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags aggressive driving, Boeing, DefSec Lloyd Austin, DoD leaks, drag shows, F-35, F/A-18 Super Hornets, Gov. Wes Moore, Jack Teixeira, Joint Base Andrews, KBR Wyle Services LLC, military retirees, Ridge Volunteer Fire Department, SAIC, US Mexico Border, US Space Command, WalletHub
Posted by Java Joe on June 1, 2023 · Leave a Comment
A Government Accountability Office report reveals that more than 1 million F-35 fighter jet spare parts worth at least $85 million have gone missing over at least the past five years since the government does not have a system to track the parts.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Abrams tanks, debt ceiling, East China Sea, F-35 spare parts, fentanyl, GBU-57, GEN Eric Smith, Gen. David Berger, Government Accounting Office, Hank Vanderborght, Islamic Republic, Kyiv, Luzon Island, M1A1 Abrams, Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training, MCVET, National Defense Authorization Act, North Korea, Precise Systems, Serhii Popko, Taliban, Yellow Sea
Posted by Java Joe on May 29, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Morning Coffee is off the burner today, Memorial Day. Morning Coffee is a robust blend of links to news around the internet concerning the Naval Air Station Patuxent River economic community. We’ll be back Tuesday, May 30, 2023.
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Posted by Java Joe on May 25, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Although Memorial Weekend is also associated with the start of summer and outdoor entertainment, the holiday was created to honor deceased veterans and military personnel. Some suggestions are here to include a commemoration in your holiday celebrations.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Enrique Tarrio, Frank Kendall, Hezbollah, Memorial Day, Meta, Micron, Rand, SEN Tommy Tuberville, Skagit River delta, USS Ronald Reagan, Veterans Legacy Memorial
Posted by Java Joe on May 22, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Military leaders and some economists are sounding the alarm warning that the US defaulting on its debt would have severe consequences for national security, military personnel, and the communities where military installations are located.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Artemis V mission, CACI Inc. Federal, Chesapeake Bay blue crabs, COL Joseph Alexander, DoD leaks, Medium Altitude Long Endurance, MQ-9 Reaper, Navy suicides, rockfish, Soldier Referral Program, US Naval Test Wing Atlantic
Posted by Java Joe on May 18, 2023 · Leave a Comment
Donations for the placement of Memorial Day flowers at the gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery are significantly short of the target goal, according to a national florist organization that has been placing the flowers at the grave sites for more than a decade.
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Posted by Java Joe on May 15, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The US Commerce Department on Friday launched a program where cities can apply for grant funding to become technology hubs. The agency will accept proposals from regions across the country. The grants are part of last year’s CHIPS and Science Act to stimulate investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotech.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Adaptive Engine Transition Program, air-to-air refueling, Bell Boeing JPO, Bluestone Investment Partners, CHIPS and Science Act, CMV-22B tiltrotor, debt ceiling, F-35, Fort Cavazos, General Electric, Joint Base Andrews, Metrea Strategic Mobility, NAWCAD, P-8 Poseidon, Precise Systems Inc., Willows Recreation Center
Posted by Java Joe on May 11, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The national “Welcome Home” event begins today, May 11, at 11am at the National Mall in Washington, DC, and runs through May 13. Planned by the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, the event commemorates the 50th anniversary of the last troops leaving Vietnam.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, Calvert Cliffs, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Constellation Energy, Daniel Perry, FEMA, Helsinki Sanomat, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi, Moscow's Red Square, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Princeton Review, tutor.com, Vietnam War, Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Posted by Java Joe on May 8, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy has completed tank tests of its new deep-diving suit called the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression (DSEND) system. The service says the suit is light, flexible, and maintains sea-level internal pressure around the wearer even when hundreds of feet underwater. The DSEND demos took place at NSWC Carderock Division in Maryland and at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit in Florida.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags AH-64D Apache crash, Brian Drechsler, Charles "CQ" Brown Jr., dive suits, DSEND, MQ-25 Stingray, MUOS, Navy security billets, NSWC Carderock, RQ-4 Global Hawk, SEN Tommy Tuberville, snakeheads, U-2 Dragon Lady, USS Cooperstown
Posted by Java Joe on May 4, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The Biden administration plans to send 1,500 more active-duty troops temporarily to the southern border to assist agents ahead of an expected influx of migrants seeking asylum.
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