Military

A Navy patrol coastal ship fired warning shots at three Iranian armed speed boats that were harassing U.S. vessels on Monday in the northern Persian Gulf, defense officials have announced. This is the second reported incident since April 2 in which vessels with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy have come dangerously close to American …

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MOSCOW (AP) – Russian military police have been deployed to a city in northeastern Syria to halt clashes between Kurdish forces and Syrian government-allied fighters, a Russian officer said Tuesday. Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, the head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria, said military police backed by helicopter gunships were sent to Qamishli …

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While the Pentagon is working to get service members vaccinated against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), it appears some soldiers’ reasoning for opting out of the vaccine is simple: They can. A slide posted by Fort Carson on Facebook lays out the top 12 reasons soldiers have given for why they’re opting out of getting the …

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