Новости за 21.06.2016

Senators were working against the clock Tuesday on new legislation allowing the Department of Veterans Affairs to quickly fire employees for bad conduct or poor performance after a current federal law was shot down.

Brazil's army says it had to kill a jaguar used in an Olympic torch relay ceremony after it escaped its leash and tried to attack a soldier.

The U.S. Army has identified a "critical gap" in its ability to face swarms of drones that could attack small units of soldiers on the battlefield by confusing radar systems, overwhelming larger aircraft or simply exploding when they reach an assigned target.

In its early decades, The Hospital Corps was known by various names, including apothecaries, hospital steward and pharmacist’s mate before the name hospital corpsman was selected in 1948.

When former editor and publisher Jack Fuller stepped down from his post as president of Tribune Co.'s publishing division in 2004, reporters and editors at the Chicago Tribune declared it the end of an era.

Palantir Technologies Inc. sent a letter to the U.S. Army saying it intends to sue over the way the Army solicits bids for its data intelligence technology used on battlefields worldwide.

Authorities have nearly completed a search of a sprawling U.S. Army Reserve facility in Northern California without finding anything suspicious Tuesday after responding to reports of a possible gunman.

Training for highway landings was a staple of the Cold War era. There appears to be a renewed interest in the old ways - a growing trend as NATO and the United States become increasingly wary of a reinvigorated Russia to the east.

The military announced Tuesday that Marine Maj. Mark Thompson — who has long insisted he was falsely accused of having sex with two U.S. Naval Academy students — will face court-martial on allegations that he repeatedly lied in an effort to prove his innocence.

Secretary of State John Kerry has met with a number of U.S. diplomats who want the Obama administration to expand its military role in Syria.

Whether Master Sgt. Charles Roberson intended to turn his Air Force Reserve retirement ceremony into a First Amendment and religion battleground is unclear.

A civilian hiring freeze ordered by the Pentagon as part of the Defense Department’s initiative to downsize its headquarter's staff has been lifted after three months.

The person that told veteran Rebecca Hayes to “learn to read & have some respect” after she parked in a designated veteran’s spot in North Carolina has sent her an apology.

Secretary of State John Kerry met Tuesday morning with several of the diplomats who signed an internal memo urging the United States to use more military force in Syria to compel the government to abide by a truce and negotiate a political solution.

Budget constraints and mandatory force-size cuts have left the Army sending its units to support missions across the globe as quickly as it can prepare them for those operations, Gen. Daniel Allyn said Tuesday.

Five friends have formed a veterinary clinic dedicated to serving members of the military, veterans and first responders.

Ramadi lies in ruins after a combination of Iraqi forces supported by U.S. airpower, some Sunni tribal fighters, and Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces wrested it from Islamic State control. The city of 400,000 people was destroyed in order to liberate it.

Radial Rumble, a North American SNJ-6 "Texan" piloted by third-generation aviator Jeff Shetterly, is among the latest performers announced for the July 23rd Vance Air Force Base 75th anniversary open house and air show.

Staff at Houston-area Veterans Affairs facilities improperly manipulated wait times for Texas veterans wishing to make a medical appointment, according to a federal report released Monday.

One of the causes driving the desire in Britain to quit the European Union is fear over immigration and refugees. Backers of the Leave campaign claim that the freedom of movement allowed in much of the continent, as well as proposals to accommodate an influx of refugees, are simply unacceptable – a position held by the leader of Slovakia, the country slated to assume the presidency of the European Council.

Veterans are becoming more vocal in the nation’s gun control debate, using their service and experience with weapons as a platform in the wake of the Orlando nightclub killings.

More than one-third of French adults now support the use of torture in "exceptional circumstances" against terror suspects, according to a poll commissioned by the French human rights group Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture.

The bomb targeted a forward military post that offers help to Syrian refugees stuck in the no-man's land separating the countries.

U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry said President Barack Obama “has been asking our troops to do more and more but he didn’t ask for more money to pay for it.”

A group of American military veterans with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan plans to train rangers in some private wildlife areas in South Africa, where poachers have killed large numbers of rhinos for their horns.