The weird engineering that links old ships of the line and the SR-71 Blackbird
One is the fastest jet ever produced, capable of outrunning anti-air missiles while capturing reconnaissance in some of the most hostile airspace on Earth.
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TRANSITION
How an overhaul of federal layoffs could affect veterans
The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of how the federal government decides which workers to lay off when eliminating jobs.
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SERVICE
Ukraine’s JEDI drone hunts Shaheds so your Patriot missiles don’t have to
Somewhere in Ukraine, a crew sits in silence next to a launcher that could pass for a rooftop HVAC unit. A radar pings. A Shahed is inbound, low and slow, grinding toward a power station at 185...
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BENEFITS
“I never let breast cancer disable me.”
Navy Veteran diagnosed at 31 speaks candidly Heather Elliott was 31 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, nearly three decades younger than the average age of diagnosis in the United...
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ADVOCACY
How a Navy photographer snapped an iconic Artemis II astronaut photo
The Navy photographer who snapped a defining photo of the Artemis II astronaut crew’s return to Earth swears he wasn’t trying to create an iconic American image.
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LEGACY
7 hours of grit and determination that changed the Civil War
Improvise, adapt, and overcome. This is a mantra of the U.S. Marine Corps , but throughout American history, U.S. troops have demonstrated their capacity for extraordinary innovation and...
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We Were Marines Who Did Everything Together. Then My Name Appeared in His Suicide Note
Illustration by Kim Vo " /> I joined the Marine Corps because junior college didn’t take. A semester and a half of C-minus ambition told me I needed something louder, something sharper.
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