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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.
The National Museum of the United States Air Force will commemorate Veterans Day by offering visitors a special opportunity to interact with more than 25 veterans who will be stationed at aircraft throughout the museum as part of the "Plane Talks" program 10:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11. Included among the veterans scheduled to be on-hand are a retired crew chief and flight nurse, as well as navigators, pilots, and engineers who have flown on aircraft such as the A-24, AC-130, B-25, B-58, C-47, C-123, C-124, C-130, C-141, F-4, F-22, F-89, F-101, F-105, HU-16, HH-3, KC-97, RF-4, SR-71, T-39, UH-P1 and VC-137C .
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, left, arrives at the Fort Bragg courtroom facility for a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, on Fort Bragg, N.C. Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Former Taliban captive Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has symptoms similar to schizophrenia and is suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder , according to a forensic psychiatrist who testified in the soldier's trial on Wednesday.
Two women from Hawaii who were rescued after being lost at sea defended their account of the ordeal, insisting that a storm was whipping up 30-foot waves and near hurricane-force winds on the night they set sail, despite records that show no severe weather in the area at the time. The Coast Guard is reviewing records from the days after Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava put to sea in a 50-foot sailboat, but NASA satellite images for the days around their departure show no organized storms in the region where they planned to travel.
When the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., began restoring an A-12 Oxcart, it took only a phone call to a nearby plant to obtain the aerospace coatings required to paint the legendary spy plane. Tom Meyer, PPG plant manager, aerospace transparencies facility in Huntsville, arranged for PPG to donate military aerospace coatings for repainting the Cold War reconnaissance plane operated by the CIA.
Authorities investigate the scene around a body covered under a white sheet next to a mangled bike along the bike path Tuesday Oct. 31, 2017, in New York. . A paramedic looks at a body covered under a white sheet along the bike path Tuesday Oct. 31, 2017, in New York.
The U.S. Navy ship arrived at the American Navy base, five days after it picked up... . In this May 3, 2017, satellite image provided by NASA, the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii is shown.
Lawyers for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl will build their case on Tuesday for why he should be spared prison time for walking off his Afghanistan post in June 2009 and endangering the troops who searched for him. The 31-year-old soldier, a polarizing figure who spent years in captivity and was released in a 2014 Taliban prisoner swap brokered by Democratic President Barack Obama's administration, took the stand at his sentencing hearing on Monday.
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Facebook says a Russian internet agency posted more than 80,000 pieces of content during and after the 2016 election, and ... Two Hawaii women who say they were lost at sea never activated their emergency beacon, the U.S. Coast Guard said, adding to a growing list of inconsistences that cast doubt on this harrowing tale of survival. Two Hawaii women who say they were lost at sea never activated their emergency beacon, the U.S. Coast Guard said, adding to a growing list of inconsistences that cast doubt on this harrowing tale of survival.
The U.S. Navy ship arrived at the American Navy base, five days after it picked up... . In this May 3, 2017, satellite image provided by NASA, the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii is shown.
Jennifer Appel, right, and Tasha Fuiava speak on the deck of the USS Ashland at White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa, Japan Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. The U.S. Navy ship arrived at the American Navy base, five days after it picked up the women and their two dogs from their storm-damaged sailboat, 900 miles southeast of Japan.
Romantic images of cowboys and covered wagons, railroad barons and Gold Rush-era prospectors that typically depict the settling of the American West play only supporting roles at best in a Nevada art exhibit with a broader perspective on Earth's "final frontier." The show stars the indigenous people who already were here when the western reaches of North and South America were allegedly tamed.
The severe storm packing hurrica... . A motorist drives under downed pine trees that are resting on power lines in Freeport, Maine, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017.
At a biannual naval commanders' conference in New Delhi last week, the Indian Navy's top leadership cleared a new maritime deployment plan . In a bid to counter emerging challenges in the Indian Ocean littorals - in particular, the growing presence of Chinese warships and submarines in India's near seas - senior commanders backed a proposal for the prolonged deployment of warships in critical and vulnerable spaces in the Indian Ocean.
In this May 3, 2017, satellite image provided by NASA, the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii is shown. Two Honolulu women who set off to sail the South Pacidic on their 50-foot sailboat the Sea Nymph left the state on May 3 and ran into trouble almost immediately.
FILE - In this May 14, 2010, file photo, American Indian activist Dennis Banks, left, speaks to reporters on Lake Bemidji, during an American Indian treaty rights protest in Bemidji, Minn. The family of Banks says he died ... .
FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump is unleashing new criticism of the probes into possible ties betwee... Defense attorneys for Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend have accused the judge in their bribery trial of not letting them present evidence and witnesses to prove their case.