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• Hegseth to Air Force: Figure out how to modify Qatari jet

  20-05-2025 22:20 via defenseone.com
  The Air Force is drawing up plans to convert a Qatari luxury jet into an Air Force One at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—despite bipartisan concern that accepting a foreign government’s plane is both dangerous and unethical.“The Secretary of Defense has directed the Air Force to basically start planning to modify the aircraft,” newly appointed Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Tuesday during a Senate Armed Services committee hearing.Last week, President
  
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• US Army medics prepare for war with China

  20-05-2025 21:23 via defenseone.com
  HONOLULU—Military casualty care in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars aimed to fly wounded troops to a hospital within “the golden hour.” But such quick medevacs are unrealistic in the vast Pacific.“You can’t fly anywhere in an hour, and you may or may not have air dominance,” in a potential war with China, Maj. Gen. Darrin Cox, commander of the U.S. Army’s 18th Medical Command, said in an interview at the Land Forces Pacific conference here.To prepare for th
  
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• The D Brief: US strikes in Somalia; UAE seeks DOGE’d DOD workers; Trump-Putin talks fall flat; Genius Machines on Thursday; And a bit more.

  20-05-2025 16:43 via defenseone.com
  The Navy’s top officer said U.S. forces carried out “the largest air strike in the history of the world” during recent operations near Somalia. Acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. James Kilby shared the extraordinary remarks Monday evening at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadership, which is typically a polite, news-free event every spring. Kilby was speaking about U.S. military operations in the Red Sea
  
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