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Defense One
February 14, 2018
Details from 2019 budget request; Army testing unmanned gun on firing range; China talks AI on subs; and just a bit more… ... Budget 2019: Despite the sharp defense spending increases proposed on Monday for the 2019 Defense Department, the massive military buildup of warships and combat aircraftÃÂ ...
KYMA
February 7, 2018
YUMA, Ariz. - As we continue military week on News 11 we look at the impact that the Yuma Proving Ground had on one local veteran during the Vietnam war. “YPG'S impact on the Vietnam war was tremendous,” said Vietnam veteran, Walt Schumacher. The Vietnam war lasted nearly 20 years from 1955 toÃÂ ...
Pacific Daily News
January 20, 2018
Construction work for a new military firing range complex at Andersen Air Force base is scheduled to begin this summer, according to the Navy, ... the development will mean clearing 89 acres of native limestone forest and 110 acres of disturbed limestone forest within the Department of Defense footprint.
IanVisits (blog)
January 19, 2018
The now-annual chance to ride a series of double-decker buses through a military firing range to an abandoned village has confirmed its 2018 date. There are only a few days each year on which the road through Imber is open to the public and so this year the Imberbus service will operate on. SaturdayÃÂ ...
News3LV
January 17, 2018
The United States Air Force wants to expand its bombing and testing range into land already dedicated to preserving Big Horn Sheep and other wildlife. The test and training range is located about 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas and already spans 2.9 million acres for military training exercises. The Air Force is consideringÃÂ ...
Marianas Variety
January 16, 2018
Prutehi Litekyan members hope the U.S. military will reverse its decision to place the firing range in close proximity to the ancestral CHamoru settlement — a place they say is home ... Prutehi Litekyan has continued to lobby local lawmakers and Department of Defense officials to reconsider the firing range.
Reading Eagle
January 16, 2018
But an owner and the operators of a newly opened indoor firing range, training facility and firearms retail store believe that is all the more reason why a business such as theirs is ... "There is value in learning to be proficient and safe from people who gained their experience in the military," Clark said.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 16, 2018
... bombing range about 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The range already covers more than 2.9 million acres in Clark, Lincoln and Nye counties. Roughly 278,000 acres of the proposed expansion would be carved from Desert National Wildlife Refuge, about half of which is already under military control.
Pacific Daily News
January 9, 2018
The military in August 2017 announced a $78 million contract had been awarded to start building the firing range complex, on 700 acres of federal property at Northwest Field on Andersen Air Force Base. The firing range is part of the training requirement for the Marines who will relocate from Okinawa to aÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
January 8, 2018
The technologies developed by Wang over several decades would give China's military – the People's Liberation Army (PLA) – a huge advantage in potential conflict areas like the Taiwan Strait or on the Tibetan Plateau, where it has had a long-running border dispute with India, military analysts said.
Express.co.uk
January 5, 2018
The airline flies from a terminal named Janet exclusively serves military personnel carrying them from Vegas to the desert base where many believe the US ... Former Ministry of Defence employee Nick Pope said: ”Area 51 exists - it's part of a military testing range in Nevada - and because of the remote andÃÂ ...
CNBC
January 5, 2018
The Pentagon says the U.S. has agreed to delay joint military exercises with South Korea until after the Winter Olympics. ... bombers flying with F-35B fighter jets and South Korean Air Force F-15K fighter jets during a training at the Pilsung Firing Range on September 18, 2017 in Gangwon-do, South Korea.
YourObserver.com
January 4, 2018
“[T]he samples collected are not likely to be representative of how/when the site was used by the military.” The Department of Defense has deemed the Longboat hazardous site “low risk.” It has scheduled to address the issue in 2048 at an estimated cost of $3.46 million, according to the ProPublica report.
The Guam Daily Post
December 30, 2017
The activist group Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian held protests against the firing range part of the buildup. The military has said the Guam Wildlife Refuge at Ritidian, a natural habitat protected by federal government regulations, won't have any construction because the firing range will be built away from it,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 21, 2017
Armed civilians are running loose inside a secure military training area north of Las Vegas, but only the bighorn sheep have reason to worry. Dec. ... Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist Pat Cummings said hunting on a bombing range is a unique experience, but that's not what attracts most hunters.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
December 18, 2017
Armed civilians are running loose inside a secure military training area north of Las Vegas, but only the bighorn sheep have reason to worry. One of the Silver State's most unusual and exclusive hunts is now underway at the Nevada Test and Training Range, where 15 hunting tags have been issued inÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
December 14, 2017
Earlier this week, I wrote in Slate about how America's military leaders have seemingly improvised a new norm of civil-military relations in response to President Donald Trump. The latest proving ground for this norm is the debate over how to treat transgender recruits and servicemembers as the TrumpÃÂ ...
Breaking Defense
December 12, 2017
The Army's embattled missile defense network, IBCS, passed a major field test at Yuma Proving Ground in October, contractor Northrop Grumman announced today. In stark contrast to chronic software crashes early on, the command-and-control system accurately tracked everything from drones toÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
December 8, 2017
In Kansas, there are 24 military installations with ongoing high- and medium-risk sites, according to ProPublica. It is expected to ... Hazardous substances at the base consist of contaminated groundwater and soil in areas including the landfill, spill site area, firing range and the fire and crash training area.
TASS
December 31, 1999
The Russian military test fired an upgraded air defense missile at the firing range Sary-Shagan in Kazakhstan, Russian newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ... The new upgraded air defense missile is capable of intercepting single and multiple strikes, including with the use of new generation intercontinentalÃÂ ...
The Guam Daily Post
December 31, 1999
Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian – a local group of activists against the building of a firing range on the Northwest Field at Anderson Air Force Base – is hosting the vigil in hopes that the military reverse its decision to place the firing range in proximity to Ritidian, a sacred site where valuable medicinal plantsÃÂ ...
SF Weekly
December 31, 1999
Like KYDOIMOS: The Din of Battle, a hypnotic and beautifully surreal 30-minute film that synchronizes aerial photographs of a U.S. military testing ground in Utah. Composer Chris Kallmyer created the music that accompanies David Maisel's tsunami of curated images — all 50,000 of them, racing acrossÃÂ ...
Independent Journal Review
October 17, 2017
As long as one does not take part in the U.S. military actions against the DPRK (North Korea), we have no intention to use or threaten to use ...
NDTV
October 17, 2017
'Don't Join Any US Military Action And You're Safe': North Korea's Warning ... "The entire U.S. mainland is within our firing range and if the U.S. ...
KUAM.com
October 16, 2017
Additional ammo for those against the military firing range at Litekyan may have come in the form of a federal judge's decision over the ...
Pacific Daily News
October 3, 2017
Frank Aguon Jr., D-Yona, is between lawmakers, military officials and community stakeholders on the military development. The firing range ...
Pacific Daily News
October 1, 2017
Topography plays big role in firing range orientation, Marine official says .... In 1963, the military condemned their lands for military defense ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 29, 2017
Two other soldiers were injured in the incident at a military firing range in the Amur region, Russia's federal Investigative Committee said in a ...
Pacific Daily News
September 26, 2017
Esteves was protesting the proposed firing range to be built on Andersen. ... which would delay the construction of a new military firing range.
Pacific Daily News
September 25, 2017
UOG students rally to stop firing range complex near Ritidian ... effort to stop a new military firing range complex from being built near Ritidian.
Pacific News Center
September 23, 2017
A protest against the military firing range at the Northwest Field overlooking the Ritidian Wildlife Refuge resulted in the arrest of 54 year old ...
TASS
September 20, 2017
The Russian Defense Ministry has carried out a test launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24 Yars towards a proving ground in the Kamchatka ...
Forces Network
October 7, 2017
On the firing range at RAF Akrotiri members of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Military Police (ARRC MP) Battalion have been honing theirÃÂ ...
Pacific Daily News
October 6, 2017
Military buildup projects stir concerns over CNMI lawsuit, aquifer .... The firing range complex would be built near the aquifer, and residents saidÃÂ ...
Island Packet
October 4, 2017
Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort aviators soon will be able to accomplish their entire training syllabus on one bombing range just a quick flightÃÂ ...
Pacific Daily News
October 4, 2017
Frank Aguon Jr., D-Yona, is between lawmakers, military officials and community stakeholders on the military development. The firing rangeÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 29, 2017
Russian Soldier Kills Three Fellow Servicemen At Far East Firing Range ... The committee's military investigations department has opened a murder case, the ... Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has dispatched aÃÂ ...
Outlook India
September 24, 2017
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Visits Field Firing Range In ... She has been visiting various military installations after taking charge.
ABC News
September 24, 2017
... F-15K fighter jets during a training at the Pilsung Firing Range, Sept. ... North Korean coast Saturday to send a message about the "militaryÃÂ ...
Pacific News Center
September 24, 2017
A protest against the military firing range at the Northwest Field overlooking the Ritidian Wildlife Refuge resulted in the arrest of 54 year oldÃÂ ...
KUAM.com
September 23, 2017
Delegate Amata Radewagan says she's met with Defense ... "I think they need to work together with the military because the two sides are notÃÂ ...
Pacific Daily News
September 23, 2017
One arrested in firing range protest at Andersen ... Force Base against planned military firing ranges resulted in one protester getting arrested.
Pacific Daily News
September 23, 2017
Opponents of the firing range complex say the development and ... who said the military seized their properties from them for military defenseÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
September 10, 2017
Latvia's armed forces took to Twitter this weekend to warn sneaky mushroom-pickers against venturing onto restricted training ranges whereÃÂ ...
TASS
August 15, 2017
CHISINAU, August 14. /TASS/. Moldova's President Igor Dodon will not let the neutral republic join military blocks, he said during Monday'sÃÂ ...
TASS
August 15, 2017
... at a proving ground in the Kaliningrad Region, the fleet's spokesman, ... Sukhoi-24 planes and military transport helicopters Mi-24 and Mi-8,ÃÂ ...
KCWY 13 Where News Comes First
August 15, 2017
One of the largest private military vehicle collections is in Dubois ... target on a military firing range and I never imagined that somebody like meÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
August 12, 2017
It is the westernmost U.S. territory; it is home to two existing military ... Pagan would become a bombing range and coral reefs around TinianÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
August 11, 2017
author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm .... with the U.S. Department of Defense's presence for—since 1898, there is, on the ... as well as the island of Pagan, to be used for these live firing range complexes. ... In 2014, the Marianas Island training and testing range was also established.
The Guam Daily Post
August 10, 2017
Outpouring of support in latest petition against firing range ... recently issued an opinion supporting the Department of Defense's takeover of ... Robert Crisostomo, director of the Military Buildup Office and special assistant toÃÂ ...
