APRIL 2, 2024 - “Paddles, contact! You’re well left of course.” On March 13, 2003, a flight of three AV-8B Harriers launched from the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) on a night combat sortie. Sometime after launch, the Operation Southern Watch mission was scrubbed due to a sandstorm that swept across Kuwait and over the Northern Arabian Gulf headed toward the … [Read more...]
Honoring our Legacy: Celebrating NATO’s 75th Anniversary
APRIL 2, 2024 – On April 4, 1949, less than four years after the end of World War II, 12 nations from Europe and North America signed the Washington Treaty and NATO was born. This group of one dozen nations - Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States - understood the great strength … [Read more...]
Army Gets FDA Clearance for Traumatic Brain Injury Test
APRIL 2, 2024 - U.S. Army officials, in partnership with Abbott, announced today that the company’s i-STAT® TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) cartridge has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used with whole blood. The newly cleared device can run whole blood testing at the patient’s bedside, allowing clinicians to obtain lab quality results for … [Read more...]
Joint Effort to Clear Baltimore Bridge Debris Launched Over Weekend
Highly trained demolition crews began cutting the top portion of the north side of the collapsed bridge into smaller sections for safe removal by crane in the Patapsco River, in Baltimore, Maryland, March 30, 2024. Salvage teams use an exothermic cutting torch to systematically separate sections of the steel bridge, which will be taken to a disposal site. (U.S. Coast Guard … [Read more...]
CSO Speaks On Logic of Space Superiority
APRIL 1, 2024 - Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman emphasized the critical importance of space superiority and outlined the service’s approach to achieving it at the Mitchell Institute’s 3rd Annual Spacepower Security Forum in Arlington, March 27. Saltzman emphasized that, over the past decades, an incredibly sophisticated array of threats has emerged in the … [Read more...]