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NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The FDLE arrested Thomas James Stephan on Wednesday after receiving a warning from authorities in South Carolina, where the man has worked as an Air Force civilian police officer at Joint Base Charleston.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY To address evolving regional threats and streamline its comman and control of special operations activities in the Middle East, Special Operations Command Central restructured its Special Operations Joint Task Force leading the fight against jihadi groups.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY “If you go back to the culture of the Irish you know we’ve been fighting each other and fighting the Scottish and so on and so forth for years and years and years,” said Medal of Honor recipient James Charles McCloughan.

NEWS | MILITARY The day after National Guard troops were ordered to move out of the Dirkson Senate building in Washington and into a nearby parking garage, officials from the Capitol Police said the department was not responsible for the public relations fiasco.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY National Guard officials say that after about 26,000 troops poured into the city to help protect Wednesday’s inauguration events, they are working to pull troops out and bring them home.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY As many as 25,000 Guard members from all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, could deploy to the city.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY With more than 7,000 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. and thousands more on the way to help protect the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden during a pandemic, it was only inevitable that some would be affected by COVID-19.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Troops from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Virginia joined those from D.C. Leaving their homes and jobs, the Guard troops are here, three days after two Air Force veterans were killed and three others died in an attempted insurrection.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Officials tell Military Times there were no reported injuries to the roughly 100 U.S. military personnel stationed in Izmir, Turkey, which was devasted by a major earthquake Friday morning that killed at least 14 and injured hundreds in Turkey and Greece.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle at 12:27 a.m. Pacific Time Oct. 29 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, according to an Air Force media release.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY If you see someone driving around with a Medal of Honor license plate, the vehicle may not necessarily belong to a recipient of the military’s highest honor for valor.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Two special operations soldiers were killed and three were injured in an aircraft mishap during an Army Special Operations Command training exercise near Coronado, California, according to an Army Special Operations Command spokesperson.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY It’s not every day that the bomb disposal team from MacDill Air Force Base gets called out to deal with a French air-to-air missile. But last Friday was no ordinary day.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Police in Florida are conducting a death investigation involving Turkey’s senior national representative to the U.S. Central Command international coalition in Tampa.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The Army announced it has launched an investigation into how a presentation on racism and discrimination included a handout suggesting President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” is considered “covert white supremacy.”

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Defense Secretary Mark Esper has approved a Department of the Interior request for DOD support to the 2020 Salute to America.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered an after-action review of the National Guard’s response to civil unrest that roiled the nation in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The games, originally scheduled in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 20-28, “would have marked the 10th anniversary of the annual competition of wounded, ill and injured service member athletes in 12 adaptive sports.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY For Kristin Brown, the history mystery began last October. She was combing Jewel Beach looking for ocean-weathered bits of frosted glass on the Kodiak, Alaska, strand. But what she found was far more unusual.

For Dave Dilegge, the days usually started at 3 a.m. as he began to scour the internet for the latest military and national security news he’d compile for Small Wars Journal. The website was a must-read for anyone interested in urban warfare, counterinsurgency, foreign internal defense, support and stability operations, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and “many flavors of…

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angel demonstration teams roared through the skies over Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta today.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY “My interpretation is that this is the unique way that our President communicates to the American People and the international audience,” Joseph Votel said in an email message.

CORONAVIRUS | COVID-19 UPDATES President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing National Guard units to be activated under Title 32 for increments of up to 31 days, instead of the previous 30 days.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The men and women of the armed forces, and their spouses, did what they have always done: See a problem and find a solution. We asked members of the military community to share their face covering photos.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY A mom of one of the sailors aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt is “devastated” by the skipper’s firing.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY service member with Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve died in a non-combat related incident in Erbil, Iraq, March 30, the command announced.

News | Your Military For much of the U.S. military’s 72,000 troops stationed in Europe, these are days of hunkering down in an effort to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The scam involves direct calls to beneficiaries with an offer to ship or sell COVID-19 testing kits.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY A civilian assigned to U.S. Special Operations Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, tested positive on March 21 for COVID-19. It is the first confirmed case at SOCOM’s headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY As Italy battles tens of thousands of coronavirus cases, an 86th Airlift Wing C-130J Super Hercules transported an En-Route Patient Staging System (ERPSS) for delivery to the Italian Ministry of Defense.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY A Crystal City-based contractor, who worked at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, passed away on March 21, Pentagon officials said.

NEW | YOUR MILITARY The first case of COVID-19 has appeared at the home of two of the military’s top commands. An active sailor assigned to U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, is currently undergoing evaluation and treatment.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Update: In a White House announcement, President Donald Trump said that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. commando raid. “Last night US brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist leader to justice,” Trump said. “Abu Bakr Baghdadi is dead.”

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The secretary of defense is carrying out orders from President Donald Trump to move US forces in Syria to move south of Turkey’s attacks against Kurds, but not leave that conflict-wracked country.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The ashes were a running joke of sorts, a constant reminder of a man who served his nation with valor then went on to counsel a young eventual Marine about the ways of war.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Syrian Democratic Forces are fighting off a massive Turkish invasion with no assistance from the U.S. military, according to a former U.S. special operator

YOUR MILITARY On Saturday, authorities in Greece announced the arrest of a man they said was connected to the 1985 hijacking that led to the death of Navy diver Robert Stethem.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Hurricane Dorian, now a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 145 mph, has stalled and continues to pound Grand Bahama Island.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The Air Force sergeant traveling through the Baltimore Washington International Airport apparently didn’t get the memo.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY A West Virginia Army National Guard soldier assigned to the 821st Engineer Company, 1092nd Engineer Battalion, 111th Engineer Brigade, in Summersville, West Virginia, died while serving in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Five years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky, killing all 298 aboard, a State Department official tells Military Times that the ongoing battle between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists serves as a potential harbinger for the U.S. military in any conflict with Moscow.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY In accordance with U.S. Department of Defense policy, the name of the service member killed in action is being withheld until 24 hours after notification of next of kin is complete. This is the 12th service member to have paid the ultimate price this year in Afghanistan.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY President Donald Trump turned the National Mall into an airshow Thursday evening as aircraft from all four services and the Coast Guard roared over the Lincoln Memorial in a loud, proud celebration of the birth of America 243 years ago.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY U.S. service members are being evaluated for potential injuries after their vehicle activated an improvised explosive device in Niger on Saturday, according to officials from U.S. Africa Command.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The lead Navy prosecutor in the war crimes case against a decorated Navy SEAL has been removed from the case by the judge for spying on defense teams and a Navy Times journalist.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY Thrift stores are a great place to find clothing bargains, funky tchotchkes and souvenirs from family trips that nobody wanted. But every so often, you can find something really unique.

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY A Navy prosecutor last week sent an email to the editor of Navy Times that was embedded with a secret digital tracking device. The tracking device came at a time when the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is mounting an investigation into media leaks surrounding the high-profile court-martial of a Navy SEAL…

NEWS | YOUR MILITARY The embattled assistant adjutant general of the Florida National Guard, under investigation for allegations he covered up sexual misconduct in the ranks, announced Tuesday he was stepping down. In a statement to Military Times, Brig. Gen. Michael Canzoneri maintained his innocence