Posted by Java Joe on May 22, 2025 · Leave a Comment
WalletHub found Maryland ranked 2nd overall in its report: 2025’s Best & Worst States for Military Retirees. The report compares the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 28 key indicators of retirement-friendliness toward veterans,
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Boris Pistorius, Cherkasy, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Donetsk, Greenbrier State Park, Kharkiv, Sandy Point State Park, Sumy, USS Harry S. Truman, Vladimir Putin
Posted by Java Joe on September 23, 2024 · Leave a Comment
US Navy ADM Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations, said the service is taking lessons from its operations in the Red Sea to help US military leaders prepare for a potential future conflict with China. The service is also looking at what Ukraine has done to hold off the Russians in the Black Sea.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags AGM-158 XR, Arctic, Arctic Service Medal, B-21 Raider, Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Dali, Fairbanks Morse Defense, Federal Trade Commission, J.F. Taylor, Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Maryland State Board of Elections, MQ-4C Triton, Naval Systems Inc., Next Generation Jammer Low Band, Rolls Royce, voting scams
Posted by Java Joe on April 22, 2024 · Leave a Comment
Congressional lawmakers are pushing for two submarines despite the US Navy wanting just one. A House Armed Services subcommittee has made clear it wants the service to buy two attack submarines in fiscal 2025 in order to keep the submarine-industrial base on a path of recovery.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags ARTEMIS, Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, FARA, Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, Gold Star families, Lockheed Martin, Marine Aviator of the Year, Pax River Village Center, Sikorsky, Tricare, Ukraine, VelocityX Hackathon
Posted by Java Joe on January 16, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon has dropped the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ADM Mike Gilday, Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Booz Allen Hamilton, COV, covid vaccines, I, Japan, Mike, Mike Rogers (R-AL), military spouses, Navy suicides, SAIC, Ukraine
Posted by Java Joe on March 14, 2022 · Leave a Comment
The US Senate passed a $1.5 trillion package late last week that funds the federal government through September and delivers $14 billion to help Ukraine. For 2022, the bill provides $728.5 billion in discretionary defense spending, an increase of $32.5 billion above 2021.
Posted by Java Joe on March 15, 2021 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon is considering a reduction in its aircraft carrier force structure as part of the upcoming fiscal 2022 budget submission to Congress.
Posted by Java Joe on November 30, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The USS Nimitz is back in the Persian Gulf. The Pentagon cites the drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq as the reason. Others believe the killing of an Iranian scientist in Tehran is further raising tensions across the Mideast.
Posted by Java Joe on October 26, 2020 · Leave a Comment
An instructor pilot and a student aviator aboard a US Navy T-6B Texan II were killed Friday when the two-seat airplane crashed in Alabama.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AH-1W Super Cobra, Arctic, Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35, military exchanges, Millie Bailey, murder hornets, rockfish, RQ-4 Global Hawk drone, T-6B Texan II, troops in Germany
Posted by Java Joe on June 24, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Trump says he was looking forward to moving past a strike on Iran in retaliation for the downing of an unmanned US drone last week by elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags AV500 helicopter, Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, drone helicopter, F-35, Finland, houthi rebels, John E. Burdette Memorial Award, JPALS, Matthew Empfield, Model 12 Electra Junior, RQ-4A Global Hawk, Ruth Richter Holden, Textron HQ drone
Posted by Java Joe on January 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The resurrected 2nd Fleet will become operational by early next year. The fleet will oversee the training of Navy forces on the East Coast. Expect the fleet to be “leaner, agile, and more expeditionary” than it was when deactivated in 2011.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 2nd Fleet, Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, CH-53K King Stallion, cybersecurity, malware, missile defense strategy, Navy surface fleet, P-8A Poseidon, Rep. Elaine Luria, sealift fleet, SpaceX, VADM Richard Brown, veteran suicides, Vulcan rocket