Equality Means Women Register for the Draft

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For “true and pure equality,” Army Secretary John McHugh says women will have to register for the draft, reports Military.com.

Defense spending is dropping everywhere in the world, except for drones, reports The Motley Fool.

The Washington Post reports, President Obama’s hope is largely dashed to bring the troops home before the end of his presidency.

Two days after the DoD ended its rebel training program four C-17 transport aircraft dropped 50 tons of of ammo and guns to “friendly forces” in northern Syria, reports Fox News.

US Coast Guard suspends its search for survivors of the missing cargo ship El Faro that disappeared near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin, reports Ship Technology.com.

Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, the former civilian naval engineer who admitted stealing plans for the USS Gerald R. Ford to give them to Egypt, faces sentencing Thursday in US District Court in Norfolk, VA, reports PilotOnline. He is expected to receive a sentence between eight and 11 years, since the stolen plans did not contain classified information.

Breaking Defense reports on the successes of the F-35C development tests with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. USNI News has slow motion video of the F-35C landing on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Twitter to layoff up to 336 of a 4,100 employee workforce in an attempt to get the company back to making money, reports USA Today.