An Army infantry officer out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, has designed a smartphone training app that nearly doubled his battalion’s success rate at earning the coveted Expert Infantryman Badge, or EIB, last year. First Lt. Egor Krasnonosenkikh, a platoon leader with 7th Infantry Division’s 4th Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, created the EIB …

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Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough wants more veterans who believe they were sickened by exposure to burn pits overseas to seek help from the department, despite many being turned away. “We’re urging vets to come forward with their claims,” McDonough said at a press briefing Monday. “Our commitment is to treat each claim …

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The U.S. Air Force‘s principal hunter-killer drone, used for counterterrorism operations for more than a decade, is expanding its sea legs. The service is finishing up another Agile Reaper exercise with the Navy and Marine Corps this week, during which it has tested how quickly airmen can launch, recover and rearm the MQ-9 Reaper for …

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Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wednesday of cancer, his family said. He was 90. Collins was part of the three-man Apollo 11 crew that effectively ended the space race between the …

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