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According to information published by the U.S. Department of Defense on July 18, 2025, the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) and the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (R09) conducted their first-ever dual carrier operations while underway in the Timor Sea during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025. This historic event marks the first time that nuclear-powered aircraft carriers from both the United States and the United Kingdom have operated together in a coordinated maritime formation.
July 21st is celebrated as Guam Liberation Day, the day when Americans came ashore in 1944. Alaska’s Aleutian Islands were liberated in 1943, and the Philippines would be liberated by the early part of 1945. The Japanese formally surrendered Sept. 2, 1945.
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Forty-three years after Joseph J. Rochefort broke the Japanese code that helped the United States win the Battle of Midway, the former naval officer is to be awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
It will be given posthumously. Captain Rochefort, who was denied the medal twice during his lifetime and ousted as an intelligence officer after he was first nominated for it, died in 1976.
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How do you define selfless service?
In the summer of 1995, Air Force Captain Scott O’Grady was flying over Bosnia, enforcing the no-fly zone, when a surface-to-air missile slammed into his F-16. He parachuted into enemy territory and for almost a week he evaded Serbian paramilitary forces. Continue reading “Service over Self”
Security issues panel at Aspen warns the U.S. must scramble to catch up
China and Russia have been militarizing space with anti-satellite weaponry for more than a decade, and the U.S. should move faster to develop advanced defensive and offensive capabilities in the futuristic domain.
Continue reading “China has ‘changed the narrative’ by weaponizing space, leading U.S. contractor says”
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