'Front-Row Seat in Hell:’ Tony Bennett's WWII Experience

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Rene Rodriguez is set to be awarded the Soldier's Medal, the service's highest award for heroism outside of combat. [Read More]( [Alabama Chairman Releases Hold on Air Force Personnel Funds, But Space Command Standoff Continues]( Efforts to shuffle DoD funding remain caught up in a contentious fight over where Space Command will be headquartered. [Read More]( [Navy SEAL Turned Author Releases a Fictional Book About His Real Life in Real-World Intelligence]( Remi Adeleke is already an accomplished actor and writer, someone you might have seen on the Amazon Prime Video series, "The Terminal List." Viewers of his previous work, however, saw a very different side of him, if they saw him at all. [Read More]( [Russian Fronts, Criminal Gangs: US Couldn't Account for Weapons Sent to Ukraine Last Year]( The schemes were disrupted by Ukraine's security service, but they also show the dangers and potential pitfalls of the $23 billion deluge of security assistance. 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