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If you've had a loved one deployed and experience the emotions that come with it, you aren't alone. About fifty members of the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing returned home Saturday, Jan 13, after being deployed in October.
Chelsea Manning, the former US Army soldier who was jailed for passing thousands of government documents to WikiLeaks exposing American military abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, has filed to run for the US Senate seat in Maryland, RT reports. Manning, who had her 35-year sentence commuted by former President Barack Obama in May last year, declared her intention to run with the Federal Election Commission on January 5. She will run as a Democrat.
This June 10, 2017 photo released by the U.S. Marine Corps shows an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter provides security from above while CH-47 Chinooks drop off supplies to U.S. Soldiers with Task Force Iron at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. An audit by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction released this past week revealed that a Department of Defense task force to support economic development squandered hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars.
In this Jan. 9, 2018 image from video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a woman and an infant are hoisted aboard a Coast Guard helicopter as they are rescued from a flood-damaged home in Montecito, Calif. Flash floods on Tuesday swept immense amounts of mud, water and debris down from foothills that were stripped of brush by a recent wildfire.
The number of missing after a California mudslide has fluctuated wildly, due to shifting definitions, the inherent uncertainty that follows a natural disaster, and just plain human error. On Thursday, the number provided by authorities went from 48, down to eight, then back up to 43. Officials say a clerical mistake led to the figure of eight being released.
The Pentagon refused any public comment on a secret government satellite that apparently crashed into the sea after it was launched by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. "I would have to refer you to SpaceX, who conducted the launch," Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said repeatedly in a briefing Thursday at the Pentagon, citing "the classified nature of all of this." Asked what investigation is being conducted to ensure accountability for the loss of a costly payload, White told reporters she will "come back to you on that."
In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump arrives to meet with members of the U.S. Coast Guard, who he invited to play golf, at Trump International Golf Club, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Trump will be the patient, not the commander in chief offering comfort, when he visits the Walter Reed military hospital.
US Coast Guard video shows more helicopter rescues from the southern California mudslides. A man, a girl and a dog were plucked from the roof of their home on Tuesday.
Sen. John Kennedy said Wednesday that the problem in America isn't guns but the "idiot" government workers who fail to enforce already existing gun-control laws. Mr. Kennedy , Louisiana Republican, said he opposes a bipartisan gun-control bill put forth by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn that reinforces the requirement for federal agencies to report criminal offenses to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database, the Washington Free Beacon reported .
Three B-2 stealth bombers have flown into the Pacific in a military muscle flex just days after landmark talks between North and South Korea . The nuclear-capable bombers join the on alert force of B-1 conventional bombers already on standby on the Pacific island of Guam.
Three days after making her intention known to federal election officials, Manning tweeted "yup, we're running for senate" with an attached campaign video . She sent a subsequent tweet seeking donations to her campaign.
An Arizona man celebrated for the humanity that was showcased in his photographs of people across the Colorado Plateau and the world has died. John Running died Sunday of complications from a brain tumor at his Flagstaff home, said his daughter, Raechel Running.
One by one, a family of five trapped by rivers of mud in Southern California climbed to the roof of their home as rescuers swooped in to help them. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew with the U.S. Coast Guard in San Diego was deployed Tuesday to Carpinteria after first responders in Santa Barbara County couldn't get through the muddy floodwaters surrounding the house.
US Air Force F-15 Eagles from RAF Lakenheath intercept Russian jets over the Baltic region. Picture: 48th Fighter Wing/Tech Sgt Roidan Carlson/ DVIDS These are moments fighter jets from RAF Lakenheath intercepted Russian jets on two separate occasions while deployed to help protect the sovereign skies above the Baltic region.
U.S. Coast Guard planes were continuing to fly over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning in search of a missing Oklahoma City pilot, the Coast Guard reports. Kinsinger piloted a small airplane that departed Wednesday evening from Wiley Post Airport.
Panaji, Jan 8 : Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday arrived at the Indian Naval Base INS Hansa in Goa to participate in the 'Rakshamantri's Day at Sea' programme, an official said. During the two-day event, which began on Monday, she is expected to board several naval ships and witness live naval operations, said an Indian Navy statement.
The Providence Committee on Foreign Relations has announced that Indian Navy Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma will host a talk field "China Moves Westward." Kumar Verma is a former Indian Navy Admiral who served as the Chief of the Naval Staff of Indian Navy, from August 31, 2009, to August 31, 2012.
Washington, Jan 6 : Distinguished aerospace expert Vivek Lall has joined Lockheed- Martin to look after the companys combat jet programme, specifically the newer generation F-16 Block 70 that the company has offered for production to India. Lall took over his new assignment as Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, on on January 2 at the company's aircraft production facility at Fort Worth, where the F-16 Falcon, F-35 Lightning II and other combat and transport aircraft like the F-22 Raptor and C-130J Super Hercules are made.