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October 20, 2021

 

‘Clearly preventable’: Lessons from past Navy ship fires should have stopped USS Bonhomme Richard blaze, admiral says Adm. Bill Lescher, vice chief of naval operations, said the force must create “better mechanisms to recognize when our people need help or need intervention” with firefighter training after a report on the July 2020 fire released Wednesday found the Bonhomme Richard crew was unprepared to fight the flames. READ MORE

Walter Reed on lockdown for bomb threat  Bomb-sniffing dogs were searching buildings Wednesday morning at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., after someone called in a bomb threat, according to officials.   READ MORE

Army hits annual end-strength goal with higher-than-expected retention numbers More soldiers chose to stay in the Army during fiscal 2021 than service leaders expected, helping them hit the service’s annual active-duty end-strength goal mandated by Congress, the Army said Wednesday. READ MORE   North Korea says it test-fired a 'new type' of submarine-launched ballistic missile The missile was successfully launched from an older submarine Tuesday and included “lots of advanced control guidance technologies,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency said in a statement. READ MORE   Does the Army Guard need more soldiers? Maybe, top general says The Army National Guard’s top general said Wednesday that he would not lobby to expand the size of the increasingly busy force, but if top Army officials proposed adding new troops he “would accept that mission immediately.” READ MORE

VA secretary vows to eliminate LA’s ‘veterans row’ homeless encampment by November Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough vowed Wednesday to get all homeless veterans living in the area known as “veterans row” in Los Angeles into housing by Nov. 1. READ MORE   Army veteran wounded in Iraq bomb blast got over $1 million by faking paralysis, prosecutors say An Army veteran who was wounded in Iraq is accused of fraudulently receiving over $1 million in federal benefits after claiming for more than a decade that he was paralyzed. READ MORE   NATO plans AI strategy, $1B investment fund as it seeks to stay ahead in tech realm U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will join his NATO member counterparts Thursday in Brussels to formally approve the plans during two days of talks. READ MORE   Japan scrambled more fighters to intercept Chinese aircraft over the summer The Japan Air Self-Defense Force launched fighters 187 times between July 1 and Sept. 30 to intercept approaching Chinese drones, fighters, bombers and surveillance planes. READ MORE   B-1 bombers deploy to Diego Garcia in Indian Ocean for first time in 15 years B-1B bombers and about 200 airmen deployed recently to the island of Diego Garcia in the center of the Indian Ocean, the first time Lancer have operated there in over 15 years, the Air Force said Tuesday. READ MORE

 

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