BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – The Vermont Army National Guard is planning to build a live-fire demolition and explosive facility at the Camp Ethan Allen Training Site in Bolton, Jericho and Underhill. The light demolition range will create more noise at the 11,000-acre site, the Burlington Free Press reported on Friday. Work on it is expected …
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From hand-release push-ups to the max deadlift and sprint-drag-carry, the grueling new Army Combat Fitness Test provides participants with lots of reminders of how hard it is to resist the pull of gravity. But what would the ACFT be like if conducted in outer space? Wonder no longer. In a video released this week by …
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When Capt. Philip Menagh was killed in a training exercise in 1984, his death left his wife and five young children with an unfillable emotional loss but also with military death benefits to ensure they could live comfortably in his absence. But if Nancy Menagh remarried, those benefits would disappear too. “It was a constant …
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk’s rapidly expanding company. The astronauts from the U.S., Japan and France should reach the International Space Station early Saturday morning, following a 23-hour ride in the …
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MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is ending his hunger strike after getting medical attention and being warned by his doctors that continuing it would put his life at risk. In an Instagram post on Friday afternoon, the 24th day of his hunger strike, Navalny said he will continue to demand …
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