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October 10, 2021

 

‘Another chance at life’: Flights carrying Afghans from Ramstein to US resume after 3-week pause About 300 evacuees from Afghanistan are now in the States after leaving Ramstein on Saturday night. Thousands more will join them this week. READ MORE

Right-sizing the force: Army offers armor for smaller troops The Army for the first time has begun handing out armor in three additional sizes: extra small short, small short and small long. READ MORE

Navy nuclear engineer and his wife charged with trying to share submarine secrets with a foreign country A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with repeatedly trying to pass secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country, in an alleged espionage plot discovered by the FBI, according to court documents. READ MORE   Hundreds of thousands of US troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near Military officials explain the variance in vaccination rates, in part, by pointing to the staggered deadlines each of the services set for personnel to comply while expressing optimism that, as those dates approach, numbers will quickly rise and a vast majority of troops will carry out their orders. READ MORE   Taliban: US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country's new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday. READ MORE

Taiwan wants 'status quo', not China's path, president says Taiwan's president on Sunday called for the maintenance of the political status quo in a forthright speech which acknowledged rising pressure from China. READ MORE   Army exports ‘combat training center’ exercise to Hawaii for first time For fiscal 2022, which started Oct. 1, the Army as a whole is planning 20 combat center rotations for brigade-sized formations, but for the first time it will have one focused on jungles and maritime in Hawaii, and another in Alaska to boost Arctic capabilities. READ MORE   California man sentenced to prison over scheme to defraud Afghanistan on US contract The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said Saed Ismail Amiri, 38, of Granite Bay was sentenced to 15 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to a single count of wire fraud. READ MORE   After 77 years, Iowa couple gets long overdue wedding photos — with help from hospice workers The Sept. 16, 1944, wedding at Grace United Methodist Church was quick and simple — Royce King was on a two-day leave before serving overseas. Frankie, his betrothed, wore a tailored suit instead of a gown. A photographer was not there to take snapshots of the loving couple. READ MORE   Remains of pilot lost during WWII are buried in Maine Relatives from across the country gathered in Millinocket to honor the life of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Ernest N. Vienneau, who was 25 when a bomber on which he served as co-pilot came under fire over present-day Slovenia on Nov. 6, 1944. READ MORE   South Korea's ruling party nominates maverick politician in race Lee Jae-myung, 56, is the governor of South Korea's most populous Gyeonggi province that surrounds the capital of Seoul. READ MORE

 

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