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Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org President Donald Trump has nominated 20 Air Force brigadier generals for another star, according to a June 22 Pentagon announcement, including the heads of recruiting, ICBM acquisition, and a top training center. All of the generals will stay in their current jobs as major generals, once confirmed by the Senate. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey W. Nelson is one of the nominees. As the head of the Air Force Accessions Center, he oversees…

Dustin Poirier admits he need some help after some recent trouble with the law.Earlier this week, Poirier was arrested at the Atlanta Airport after being kicked off a flight for public drunkenness. On Tuesday, police bodycam footage of the arrest was released, showing an extremely agitated Poirier cursing at airport gate agents and then attempting to fight the responding officer before being taken into custody.Immediately after the incident, Poirier posted a brief message to his social media saying he is “working on myself,” but had otherwise refrained from commenting. However, on Tuesday, Poirier again went to his Instagram account, this…

Dustin Poirier has spoken publicly for the first time since his arrest in Georgia, posting a brief message to Instagram that read, “Love you all. I’m working on myself.” The post landed a day after news emerged that the former UFC interim lightweight champion had been taken into custody on a public drunkenness charge tied to an incident on Father’s Day. Dustin Poirier Speaks Out Following Public Drunkenness Charge Reports on the case align on the key timeline. Poirier, 37, was booked in Clayton County, Georgia, at 6:38 p.m. on Sunday on a misdemeanor “Public Drunk” charge and was released…

Running is one of the simplest and most effective forms of exercise, yet many runners spend years training without fully understanding one of the most important concepts in endurance performance: training zones. Whether you are preparing for your first 5K, chasing a marathon personal best, or simply running to improve your health, understanding running zones can dramatically improve your results. Training zones help runners control intensity, manage fatigue, maximize adaptation, and reduce the risk of overtraining. The concept may sound technical, but it is actually straightforward. Different running speeds place different demands on the body. At lower intensities, your muscles…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reorganizing its long-standing value engineering program by shifting it from a separate activity and folding it into existing project delivery processes, a move critics warn would increase the risk of waste, cost growth and schedule overruns.  USACE said the transition is already underway and that the new model is expected to be fully implemented by Sept. 30.  “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is not dissolving, eliminating or reducing our commitment to value engineering. To the contrary, USACE is elevating and modernizing value engineering by transitioning it from a standalone, parallel compliance program…

Research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that COVID-vaccinated veterans had nearly 24 percent fewer all-cause cardiac events — not just those linked to COVID infections. The result suggests that the vaccines may be broadly cardioprotective, according to the researchers. The large study using VA health data found that COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other major cardiovascular events among veterans — including a reduction in cardiac events with no documented COVID diagnosis, a finding that surprised the researchers themselves. The study, published June 15, 2026, in JAMA Internal Medicine, followed more than…

NEW DELHI — India has commissioned three domestically built naval vessels—a multi-role stealth frigate, an anti-submarine warfare platform, and a survey ship—as it accelerates both its naval modernization efforts and its push to design and build advanced naval platforms indigenously.The most significant induction, which took place Sunday in the eastern city of Kolkata, was the stealth frigate named “Dunagiri.” One of India’s most advanced surface combatants, it is nearly 149 meters in length and displaces around 6,600 tonnes.Equipped with advanced weapons, sensors and stealth technologies, the new warship is designed to perform air-defense, anti-surface, anti-submarine and long-range strike missions simultaneously.In…

Iran Press TV Tuesday, 23 June 2026 12:30 AM Iran’s deputy foreign minister and chief of the technical negotiating team, Kazem Gharibabadi, has announced the successful conclusion of four-country technical talks and the finalization of arrangements for the next phase of high-level negotiations. Speaking after the conclusion of the talks on Monday, Gharibabadi stated that the high-level follow-up committee meeting on the implementation of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding (MoU), held on Sunday and continuing into the early hours of Monday, was followed by detailed technical discussions. These talks focused on establishing the executive mechanisms for the MoU and the…

Five years ago, the 20-year American war in Afghanistan came to an inglorious end. In April 2021, the United States had begun its final withdrawal, with the goal of pulling out the 2,500 U.S. troops that remained in the country by September. Within weeks of the first U.S. departures, the Taliban had swept up scores of positions as Afghan government forces melted away. By early August, the group had taken control of most provincial capitals. Finally, on August 15, 2021, the U.S.-backed government in Kabul collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of terrified Afghans besieged the city’s airport. Roughly 120,000 were evacuated…

The U.S. Army has successfully tested software designed to help vehicle-mounted weapons shoot down drones while both the target and the vehicle are moving, Picatinny Arsenal announced Tuesday. The capability was demonstrated in April at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, using a Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station, or CROWS, equipped with software that has been designed to track and strike small drones while the vehicle is in motion. The effort has been led by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center, according to the release.The project, known as Simultaneous Weapon Autonomy Technology for Fire Control, or SWAT-FC, uses technology…