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Latest US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific 2 Eugene Yesterday Yesterday 6 328
US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons 1 littlemissmartypants Friday Friday 8 527
Two Americans sentenced to prison for North Korean tech worker scheme 2 Eugene Apr 18 Apr 18 5 462
FACT FOCUS: Trump says drug trafficking by sea is down 98.2%. The numbers don't show that 1 Eugene Apr 18 Apr 18 5 531
Cameron Hamilton: Less than a year after being fired, former FEMA chief is set to be reinstalled by Trump 0 Eugene Apr 17 Apr 17 0 267
Trump Was Going to Fire Tulsi Gabbard Last Week -- Until Roger Stone Stepped in to Save Her: Axios 2 Eugene Apr 11 Apr 15 1 608
Kristi Noem's first DHS meeting where she entered to 'Hot Momma' was like being in a South Park episode, staffers say 2 Eugene Apr 14 Apr 14 19 864
Zelenskyy vents frustration over U.S. disinterest in evidence of Russia helping Iran 2 ck4829 Apr 12 Apr 13 11 428
Strikes on alleged drug boats kill 5, leave 1 survivor in eastern Pacific, US military says 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 13 5 404
Navy to Inactivate Attack Boat USS Boise After $1.6B Repair Effort 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 11 Apr 11 6 607
Pentagon Awards Lockheed $4.7 Billion Deal for Patriots 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 11 Apr 11 2 413
The New Trump-Class Battleship Is Just Dumb 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 11 Apr 11 4 638
Harsh comments following the Trump-Rutte meeting - Top Report - TVP WORLD 0 TexasTowelie Apr 9 Apr 9 3 423
Trump requests $1.5 trillion increase in military funds - ABC News 6 TexasTowelie Apr 8 Apr 9 4 529
Kristi Noem hugely overpaid for a $145 million warehouse in one of her final acts at DHS, report says 5 Eugene Apr 7 Apr 8 6 709
Ukraine says it replaced human soldiers with 'ground robots' in over 21,000 missions for Q1 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 8 Apr 8 4 425
Right to repair: Why the US military can't fix much of its own equipment 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 4 8 561
USS Nimitz visits Panama on grand farewell tour 4 nitpicked Apr 2 Apr 2 3 579
Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief 0 Eugene Apr 2 Apr 2 4 470
This War Was Driven By Politics Anchor Watch with Bobby Jones 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 1 Apr 1 0 388
Last Surviving World War II Triple Ace Laid to Rest at Arlington National Cemetery 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 31 Mar 31 15 685
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 31 Mar 31 1 221
Philippines Foreign Ministry: Will meet with Iranian officials to discuss safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 31 Mar 31 2 411
Japan Is Fortifying This String of Islands Close to China 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 31 Mar 31 3 495
Donald Trump says US could 'take the oil in Iran' 7 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 4 882
Pentagon reportedly preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 30 4 690
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 0 175
At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence 'against those who deserve no mercy' 11 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 26 Mar 29 12 1476
Ukraine schooled NATO in a Wargame: Ukraine's Drone Warfare Exposed NATO's Critical Weakness 0 blue-wave Mar 29 Mar 29 10 563
A group of four C-130s left Dobbins Air Reserve Base between 2:00 and 2:40 p.m. ET. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 28 8 909

National Security & Defense Continued...

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Iranian Attack on Prince Sultan Air Base Reportedly Struck U.S. KC-135s - Reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 28 2 595
Amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is in port in Diego Garcia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 28 5 584
Flight of Barksdale B52s inbound RAF FAIRFORD now 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 28 3 571
VA executive accused of demanding gifts in the form of cash, casino chips from contractors 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 28 2 516
Special Air Mission departs Homestead AFB at 3:39 a.m. ET headed northeast. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 28 2 588
HEAVILY ARMED B-52s Takeoff from RAF Fairford - Loaded with JDAM Bunker Busters 12 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 27 7 1289
Traumatic brain injury emerging as signature injury in Iran war: US official 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 10 539
Is The U.S. Dropping Mines To Stop Iranian Missile Launchers? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 3 539
Sailor Flown Ashore After Flight Operations Injury on Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 1 482
More Bombers Arrive at RAF Fairford 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 1 619
Just about every helicopter the United States owns is flying around in southern Alabama right now. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 26 Mar 27 6 1346
Army raises enlistment age to 42, eases marijuana restrictions 6 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 5 834
Finnish President: Trump's actions are making it harder to defeat Russia 5 blue-wave Mar 24 Mar 24 6 652
Pentagon Officials Weigh Deployment of Airborne Troops for Iran War 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 24 Mar 24 0 423
'Multiple waves' of unauthorized drones recently spotted over strategic US Air Force base 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 23 Mar 24 4 662
USS Gerald R. Ford docks in Greece for port call after fire 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 23 Mar 23 7 568
'RAF Fairford plane spotters have swamped our village and use fields as toilet' 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 23 Mar 23 4 622
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 23 Mar 23 0 345
Three C-17s just left Ramstein Air Base headed east about five minutes apart. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 22 Mar 22 4 1021
There are nine T-38s flying around in a corridor between Memphis and Montgomery. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 22 Mar 22 3 856
B-52s and B-1 bombers launch for a strike mission as a U-2 spy plane flies overhead 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 22 Mar 22 8 908
Tanker carrying fuel originally bound for Cuba diverts to Trinidad, shipping data shows 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 22 Mar 22 4 552
Flights Are Still Taking Off as Missiles Rain Down in the Middle East 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 22 Mar 22 5 723
Iranian Missiles Strike Far-Off Target, but U.S. Remains Out of Range 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 21 Mar 21 3 508
V-22 Ospreys have two different icons on ADSB Exchange. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 21 Mar 21 0 647
'StravaLeaks': France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 20 Mar 20 2 473
Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 20 Mar 20 4 499
I see two B-1 bombers with their transponders on over the eastern Mediterranean and ... 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 5 881
Iran is retaliating against the U.S. with strikes on American sites throughout the Middle East. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 18 Mar 18 3 845
Admiral's Comments Undercut Pentagon's Cluster Munition Policy 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 18 Mar 18 5 485

National Security & Defense Continued...

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US can access military data collected by Australian aircraft in Gulf 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 18 Mar 18 1 485
Ali Larijani, Iran's top national security official killed, then Joe Kent resigns. Hummm... 1 suegeo Mar 18 Mar 18 4 644
Democratic lawmaker condemns Hegseth's call for 'no quarter' for US enemies 6 Eugene Mar 14 Mar 18 1 758
B-1 takes the long way around to get to RAF Fairford from the Persian Gulf 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 18 Mar 18 1 691
Military report says 'one in a million' live fire malfunction rained shrapnel on California highway 1 Eugene Mar 18 Mar 18 4 498
Successful trip to RAF Fairford for plane spotting 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 17 Mar 18 1 519
Trump expected at Dover AFB on March 18 for dignified transfer of crewmembers killed in crash of KC-135 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 17 Mar 17 3 767
Fire on U.S. Aircraft Carrier Raged for Hours, Sailors Say 9 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 17 Mar 17 14 1169
Three more B-52s have gone from Minot AFB to RAF Fairford. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 16 Mar 16 7 1272
Operations at RAF Mildenhall, 15 March 2026 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 15 Mar 15 3 721
Navy Extends USS Nimitz Service Life to 2027, in Line with Carrier John F. Kennedy's Delivery 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 15 Mar 15 2 537
Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud 2 littlemissmartypants Mar 14 Mar 14 5 690
USS Tripoli, 31st MEU Heading to the Middle East 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 14 Mar 14 5 724
Tracing the US military's learning curve on fighting Iran's drones: What to know 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 13 Mar 13 0 657
Ship fire unrelated to combat injures pair of USS Gerald R. Ford sailors 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 12 Mar 12 4 575
Israeli military drops charges against soldiers charged with abusing Palestinian prisoner 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 12 Mar 12 11 608
U.S. Showers Iran With Bombs in Most Intense Strikes of the War, Pentagon Says 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 11 Mar 11 3 750
US Air Force National Guard Worries Grow After Aircraft Removed From Units 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 9 Mar 9 7 911
US bomber planes land in UK amid expected 'surge' in strikes on Iran 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 7 Mar 7 5 873
The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship 19 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 6 Mar 6 60 3272
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