USACE teams with PRASA to provide water to 100,000 residents, businesses in NW Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Running water is still a scarce commodity for many Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. But, in the past weeks residents in Isabella and Quebradillas have been able to wash, bathe, cook and drink from the tap again.

Kelly’s Civil War comment takes White House into the weeds on 157-year-old issue

On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States with 39.8 percent of the popular vote in a four-person race. Why all this is interesting now, 157 years later, is that current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly came out recently with the comment that the Civil War began because the sides couldn't compromise.

69 Marines hospitalized in California E. Coli outbreak

This 2006 colorized scanning electron micrograph image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the O157:H7 strain of the E. coli bacteria. On Wednesday, May 26, 2016, U.S. military officials reported the first U.S. human case of bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort drug.

Cubic Awarded Contract to Continue Readiness Training Support to the…

Nov. 2, 2017 - Cubic Corporation today announced that its Cubic Global Defense business division received a contract award, valued at $11.5 million, from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command to support the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Systems Support effort. During the six-month period of the contract, Cubic will provide training in Marine warfighting skills; command post exercises; battle staff training; mission rehearsal exercises; command, control, communication and computers mobile training; in addition to combat simulation ranging from individual to joint and combined staffs training.

Critics – would be quietened’ if they knew of fighter plane’s capabilities

Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Andy Edgell, the UK's lead test pilot, uses a specialist fighter jet simulator at BAE Systems in Warton, Lancashire Critics of Britain's new multimillion-pound stealth fighter jets would be "quietened very quickly" if they knew what they are capable of, the UK's lead test pilot has said. The F-35 Lightning II will undertake missions from HMS Queen Elizabeth, the A 3 billion behemoth aircraft carrier and the nation's future flagship.

Japan-Based Marines Conduct Nighttime Aerial Refueling Training

Marines based here conducted a nighttime aerial refueling exercise Oct. 25-26 to improve operational readiness and enhance pilot proficiency. An F-35B Lightning II aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 based out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, conducts a nighttime aerial refueling training operation with a KC-130J Hercules aircraft with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152, Oct. 25, 2017.

Soldiers in Niger fight were alone for 2 hours

The U.S. Special Forces team caught in a deadly ambush three weeks ago in Niger did not request help from nearby French forces for about an hour after the firefight began near a village the Americans had visited during a reconnaissance mission several hours prior, the Pentagon's top general said Monday.

Green Berets in Niger waited an hour for air support

The U.S. Special Forces team caught in a deadly ambush three weeks ago in Niger did not request help from nearby French forces for about an hour after the firefight began near a village the Americans had visited during a reconnaissance mission several hours prior, the Pentagon's top general said Monday. It then took the French another hour to get fighter jets over the American troops, according to a new timeline provided by Gen.

Pence honors memory of Marines killed in 1983 Beirut bombing

Vice President Mike Pence on Monday honored the memory of 241 U.S. service members killed in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, calling the three-decade-old attack the "opening salvo" in the war against terrorism. Pence and White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster paid tribute to the service members, including 220 Marines, on the anniversary of the deadly truck bombing during President Ronald Reagan's first term.

a Savior Generala Petraeus Gave Us the Wrong Bible

For the last decade, a rough consensus has emerged about the 2006 revised U.S. counterinsurgency manual written by General David Petraeus. Its boosters say it improved Army and Marine Corps tactics against insurgents and led to the deescalation of violence and stabilization of a number of areas in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trump thrusts Kelly’s private tragedy into public spotlight

Enraged and rattled by the political brawl over military mourning, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly returned this week to the one place he could go clear his head - Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, some of the saddest ground in America. There, amid the memorials to the recent war dead is Grave 9480, the final resting place of Kelly's son, Robert, a Marine killed in 2010 in Afghanistan.

New continuance granted for attorney representing ex-Marine

Another continuance was granted Tuesday morning in Yuma County Superior Court to the defense attorney now representing the former Marine charged in the death of his 20-month old step daughter, as she continues preparing the case for trial. In a hearing before Superior Court Judge Stephen Rouff, attorney Cynthia Brubaker, of the Yuma County Public Defender's Office, who represents Jared Cardwell, explained that the court had given her 60 days to write a response to a prosecution reply to a defense motion, and she is still in the process of doing that.

Marines invited to Marine Corps birthday celebration in Manchester

The Manchester Expeditionary Brigade, a group of local volunteers, will host a celebration of the 242nd U.S. Marine Corps birthday at the Executive Court Banquet Facility in Manchester on Friday, Nov. 10. Each year on Nov. 10, regardless of location, Marines pause to observe the Marine Corps birthday, often sharing a meal followed by birthday cake ... (more)