APRIL 25, 2024 - Every year, increasingly erratic and unpredictable climate forces are threatening Marine Corps installations and capabilities. Typhoon Mawar made this clear less than a year ago when it struck Guam – scattering debris on runways and shuttering access to essential services across the island – or more recently in California when stormwater washed out roads at San … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2024
Five & Thrive Expands Guidebook
APRIL 25, 2024 - Family readiness is mission readiness, and military families deserve a quality of life that supports their journey rather than hinder it. The Five & Thrive initiative began in 2021, headed by Sharene Brown, spouse of the 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to tackle the top five quality-of-life issues - childcare, education, healthcare, housing, … [Read more...]
Biden Administration Approves More Assistance for Ukraine
APRIL 25, 2024 - Yesterday, following the passage of the national security supplemental which the President just signed into law, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced a significant new security assistance to urgently meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs. This announcement is the Biden Administration's fifty-sixth tranche of equipment to be provided from … [Read more...]
Space Force Outlines Roadmap for Commercial Partnerships
A United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan VC2S rocket launches its first certification mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, Jan. 8, 2024. Cert-1 will deliver the Astrobotic Peregrine commercial lunar lander into a highly elliptical orbit more than 220,000 miles above Earth to intercept the moon and will carry a Celeste’s Memorial … [Read more...]
The Military History of Ray-Ban
APRIL 27, 2024 - Ray-Ban is an iconic brand that has permeated popular culture for decades. It has become a lasting touchstone of the all-American aesthetic, as close to apple pie and the bald eagle, representing the aspirational true blue American. Almost a whole century after its inception, parent conglomerate EssilorLuxottica reported an 8% increase in revenue following the … [Read more...]