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New tactical comms system for US ground troops aims to break network silos
General Dynamics revealed a new artificial intelligence-enabled, portable communications system on Thursday called the Vion, a Mission Partner Environment solution. Although its basic purpose is to give ground troops a suitcase-sized platform to exchange messages and files, the company said its real value is how it connects allied systems. In an interview with Military Times, Jason Myers, vice president of…
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Iran ‘skirmish’ has no effect on strong US economy, White House advisor claims
President Donald Trump’s policies have made the U.S. immune to the chaos in the oil markets and the impact on the global economy resulting from the Iran war, White House advisor Keven Hassett claimed Friday.“All the cumulative policies” Trump has promoted, including tax cuts and deregulation, “can’t be upended by…
Master Chief actor condemns use of character in White House’s Iran war hype video
“Wake up, daddy’s home,” Robert Downey Jr., playing the role of Iron Man, says at the beginning of a video posted to the White House’s X account Friday. In the post, the clip kicks off a high-energy mashup of scenes from popular movies and TV shows cut together with real-world…
‘War Machine’ review: Finally, a training scenario with aliens
Netflix released “War Machine” on Friday, a science fiction action film starring Alan Ritchson that raises an oddly believable military premise: What if the final phase of U.S. Army Ranger selection suddenly involved fighting a giant alien robot?Directed by Patrick Hughes, “War Machine” follows a group of Ranger candidates grinding…
Veterans buck trend as jobless rates dip below national average
Unemployment rates for veterans fell in February following two months of increases, while the rate for the general population ticked up in a weakening labor market rocked by blue-collar job losses, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.In its monthly jobs report, the BLS stated that the unemployment rate for…
When veterans take the pen, war stories start to change
Hollywood has never lacked war stories. But it has often lacked veteran storytellers telling them.For years, military narratives on screen have gravitated toward spectacle or trauma. Either elite raids and explosions, or the aftermath: PTSD, divorce, isolation. What gets squeezed out is the middle ground — bureaucracy, boredom and dark…
How MREs inspired today’s meal-delivery industry
Long before cardboard boxes filled with frozen gel packs and prepackaged ingredients started appearing on suburban porches, the U.S. military had already solved the problem of feeding people who could not make it home for dinner.The Meal, Ready-to-Eat, better known as the MRE, was designed for war. It had to…