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Pentagon: Russia has lost about 25% of its combat power originally used in the Ukraine invasion Russia has lost about one-quarter of its troops, weapons and military equipment originally sent to invade Ukraine less than two months ago, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday. Read more >

Navy destroyers return to US after European deployment prompted by Russian actions USS The Sullivans and USS Mitscher returned from January deployments to U.S. 6th Fleet on Monday and Saturday, respectively, the Navy said. Read more >

Space Force to launch its first guardians-only basic training in May Space Force is set to train its new recruits separately from the Air Force for the first time next month when it launches its inaugural guardians-only Basic Military Training class, service officials said Tuesday. Read more >   Supreme Court won’t intervene on behalf of Air Force vaccine refuser The U.S. Supreme Court has decided it won’t block the Air Force from disciplining a Reserve officer who refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Read more >   Army CID hires three agents to lead newly established field offices in Texas, Colorado, North Carolina The Army Criminal Investigation Division has hired three civilians to lead regional field offices as part of an ongoing effort to improve its capabilities and further separate the service’s crime unit from the soldiers and commands that it investigates. Read more >

Photos | School at Ramstein Air Base throws party to celebrate military children U.S. military bases and schools hold special events in April to honor military families and their children. Read more >   Despite North Korean missile ‘provocations,’ diplomacy still an option, US officials say U.S. officials on Tuesday continued to call for North Korea to return to the negotiating table days after Pyongyang conducted another round of missile tests. Read more >   Time of knead: When AAFES’ oven broke on Okinawa, Yokota rose to the occasion When a bakery oven on Okinawa that supplies U.S. military bases, commissaries and schools on the island broke down in February, Yokota Bakery Plant in western Tokyo flew to the rescue. Read more >   3 sailors on carrier USS George Washington die within a week Three sailors on the carrier USS George Washington died within the space of a week, the Navy said. Read more >   Russia pours in more troops and presses attack in the east Russia assaulted cities and towns along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long and poured more troops into Ukraine on Tuesday in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the country's eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories. Read more >   'Not my life': An apartment block reflects the new Ukraine The families live footsteps apart. They don't know each other, but they recognize displaced people like themselves on sight, without exchanging a word. Read more >

 

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