Новости за 09.07.2015

Jade Helm 15, the controversial Special Operations exercise that spawned a wave of conspiracy theories about a government takeover, will open next week without any media allowed to observe it, a military spokesman said.

The nominee for the next chairman of the joint chiefs told a Senate committee Thursday that Russia is a bigger threat to the United States than the Islamic State.

Dell McMullen, the leader of one of the largest military school districts in Europe, has been selected as director of Defense Department schools in Europe, school officials announced Thursday.

“You may think you’re tough,” former Scott Air Force Base Staff Sgt. Randall Forsythe said, “but when you start training for this specific challenge, you are proven wrong.” But Forsythe, 29, a recruiter in College Station, Pa., was tough enough to advance to the next round of NBC’s American Ninja Warrior contest.

The military is legally tied to a Syria vetting process that has resulted in just 60 graduates to fight the Islamic State, the nominee for the next chairman of the joint chiefs told a Senate committee Thursday.

On a clear night, the Filipinos who live on Pagasa Island — a speck in the vast South China Sea — can see the floodlights from giant Chinese cranes working around the clock, dredging sand to build on a nearby reef.

The vehicle officials say was used to pilfer water from a Ventura County water district’s fire hydrant was not a red Ferrari driven by a mustachioed man in a Detroit Tigers baseball cap and a Hawaiian shirt. But the Calleguas Municipal Water District points the finger at “Magnum, P.I.” star Tom Selleck — and they say they hired a real P.I. to prove it.

The Department of Defense will ask Congress for new authorities to funnel more challenging cases into military treatment facilities, a move aimed at sustaining wartime specialty skills and overall medical readiness, said Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.

Iraq's powerful Shiite militias are vowing to drive Islamic State fighters out of Fallujah, setting off a panic in the city where U.S. Marines saw their bloodiest combat of the war.

Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a 2012 charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, ABC News reported Wednesday.

If you’ve ever seen a Jason Derulo concert, you know that this beefcake pleasure-drone does not dance. He executes his choreography, efficiently arranging his body into as many pop-locked shapes as possible. It’s unsettling. His relentlessness and athleticism are intended to dazzle, but his movements are never an actual response to his music, so it looks inhuman.

U.S. Army Alaska will welcome a new commanding general Friday.

Cases of fifth disease — a mild rash illness that most commonly affects children but in rare cases can cause expectant mothers to lose the fetus — are on the rise in Tokyo and expected to worsen, according to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

A military contractor at the center of what the Defense Department has described as the largest contracting and bribery case to come out of the Iraq War has been sentenced to federal prison. But as George H. Lee Jr. saw it, he did little, if anything, wrong.

The Islamic State terrorist group is increasingly using encrypted communications to recruit troubled Americans and urge them to carry out attacks, FBI Director James Comey told Congress on Wednesday.

A collision between a Cessna 150 and an F-16 fighter jet that killed a father and son was the second fatal tragedy to strike their family in just four days, according to one relative.