@jaredbkeller

Managing editor @TaskandPurpose Your school has no gymnastics team, this is a last resort. [email protected]

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The Pentagon does not like 'Street Fighter' :/ taskandpurpose.com/centcom-v…
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@WIRED14 Mar 2023
An Iraqi translator for the US military emigrated to Texas to start a new life. He ended up becoming one of the biggest drug dealers on the dark web. wired.trib.al/DqKmEOs

On the Trail of the Fentanyl King

An Iraqi translator for the US military emigrated to Texas to start a new life. He ended up becoming one of the biggest drug dealers on the dark web.

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A pair of Russian fighter jets intercepted a US Air Force drone, dumped fuel on it, and eventually collided with it, causing it to crash in the Black Sea taskandpurpose.com/news/air-…

US Air Force drone crashes after colliding with Russian fighter over Black Sea

The Air Force MQ-9 Reaper was a total loss. It is the latest example of Russian pilots flying aggressively around US aircraft.

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So let me get this straight: A pair of Russian fighter jets intercepted and pissed fuel all over an Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone until one got too close and accidentally brought it down over the Black Sea?
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@davidfrum14 Mar 2023
The Iraq war plus 20, some thoughts in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

The Iraq War Reconsidered

The U.S.-led invasion was a grave and costly error. But 20 years on, another assessment is possible.

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I go offline for my bachelor party for three days and apparently the economy is on fire now?
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Tanks crews in III Armored Corps just got hit with some rule changes on how they can name their tanks trib.al/SGGJbG7

A major US Army formation just dropped new restrictions on tank names

Tanks for the memories!

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NEW: The Army's III Corps has dropped new restrictions limiting who gets to name an M1 Abrams tank — and what those names can actually be taskandpurpose.com/news/army…

A major US Army formation just dropped new restrictions on tank names

Tanks for the memories!

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I want to believe that this is my fault somehow xitter.cf/jaredbkeller/status/16…
Jared Keller@jaredbkeller21 Feb 2023
meanwhile, in poland
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The Air Force wants to turn the MQ-9 Reaper into a mothership for drone swarms defenseone.com/technology/20…

The Reaper UAV Is Getting Its Own Drone Swarm

Air Force special operators are rigging the venerable uncrewed aircraft with an ISR swarm that may take just one person to control.

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This is honestly the DoD's solution for everything: just slap a drone swarm on it!
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Lindsey Graham wants to invade Mexico thehill.com/policy/internati…

Graham says he will introduce bill to ‘set the stage’ for US to use military force in Mexico

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday said he was prepared to introduce legislation to “set the stage” for U.S. military force in Mexico, saying it was time to “get tough” …

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SCOOP: The military is studying whether AIM-120 AMRAAMs, designed to be fired from Western fighter jets like F-16s, can be mounted on Ukraine’s existing MiGs. This would be the first time the U.S. has provided an air-to-air capability. politico.com/news/2023/03/07…

U.S. military eyes mounting Western air-to-air missiles on Ukrainian MiGs

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The Air Force wants to buy 200 secretive Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter aircraft and 1,000 'collaborative combat aircraft' drone wingmen breakingdefense.com/2023/03/…

Next gen numbers: Air Force plans first 'nominal' buy of 200 NGAD fighters, 1,000 drone wingmen -...

Service acquisition chief Andrew Hunter said the initial tranche of collaborative combat aircraft wingmen are “very much within grasp,” with capability expected to be delivered by the end of the...

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'Land, load ’em, go' — How Army helicopter crews risked their lives to save 10,000 during Afghanistan evacuation trib.al/TXCW80H

'Land, load ’em, go' — How Army helicopter crews risked their lives to save 10,000 during Afghani...

Unreported until now, soldiers with the Army’s 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade flew outside Kabul’s airport to rescue Americans and Afghans.

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The Russian military is so low on small arms and ammo that reservists are reduced to fighting with their e-tools taskandpurpose.com/news/russ…

The Russian military is so low on ammo that troops are reduced to fighting with e-tools

“One of the reservists described being ‘neither physically nor psychologically’ prepared for the action.”

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I was really lucky to get to know Lou in recent years through my fiancé and her family. He will be missed. washingtonpost.com/obituarie…

Lou Stovall, Washington artist and master printmaker, dies at 86

He made intricate, vividly colored screenprints, often in collaboration with artists such as Alexander Calder, Sam Gilliam and Jacob Lawrence.

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20 years after invading Iraq, US troops are still holding things together there taskandpurpose.com/news/us-t…

20 years after invading Iraq, US troops are still holding things together there

"We must continue the fight against ISIS alongside our partners.”

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Former US Army soldier just got 45 years in prison for planning a "jihadist attack" on his own unit in the lead-up to a deployment to Turkey and sending "sensitive details" about the unit to a neo-Nazi group justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/for…

Former U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For

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The most realistic thing about Halo is that they’re still using 5.56mm ammo in the distant future
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