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  • UPDATED LIST: DOD’s contracts with Alabama-linked companies bring $billions in defense spending

    UPDATED LIST: DOD’s contracts with Alabama-linked companies bring $billions in defense spending

    February 7, 2025

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    CONTRACTS

    (Laser warfare development is among the many fields of research taking place in Alabama. DOD photo.) By Troy Turner [email protected] The Department of Defense in the past several months has awarded dozens of Alabama-connected companies – many of which are headquartered here – major contracts to support a wide array of military projects, involving almost…

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  • Audie Murphy: Hero, movie star, veteran

    Audie Murphy: Hero, movie star, veteran

    February 2, 2025

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    ARMY

    Audie Murphy shown relaxing during a 1954 stay at the Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham. Murphy often toured the nation giving speeches at war memorial dedications, and he did so in Alabama. (Photo via Alabama Department of Archives and History.) Editor’s note: World War II hero and post-war movie star Audie Murphy was in Alabama and…

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  • Navy singer goes from Auburn to NFL mega-audience on way to social media fame

    Navy singer goes from Auburn to NFL mega-audience on way to social media fame

    January 29, 2025

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    NAVY

    By Troy Turner [email protected]                                     AUBURN – Basketball fans fortunate enough to attend last Saturday’s hard-fought Auburn-Tennessee game briefly may have turned their heads before tipoff to notice the man singing the national anthem. A day later for those who joined millions of others to watch the NFL’s nationally televised AFC Championship football matchup in Kansas…

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  • Alabama Congressional delegation wastes no time in making pitch to Trump for Space Command Headquarters

    Alabama Congressional delegation wastes no time in making pitch to Trump for Space Command Headquarters

    January 22, 2025

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    Uncategorized

    By Troy Turner [email protected] The 119th Congress began its first session on Jan. 3, and within days members from Alabama introduced resolutions in the House and Senate calling on President Trump in his return to office to “immediately proceed in establishing a permanent headquarters for United States Space Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.” The resolutions were introduced on…

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  • The president leads our government, but who is next in the line of succession? The next 18 positions of power:

    The president leads our government, but who is next in the line of succession? The next 18 positions of power:

    January 20, 2025

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    Uncategorized

    By Troy Turner [email protected] The inauguration of President Donald Trump into his second term brought most of the top U.S. government leadership all together in the same room. Which, to some, might prompt the question of what is the succession of power beneath the office of the president? The U.S. Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act…

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  • Alabama National Guard activates 400 in latest winter weather response

    Alabama National Guard activates 400 in latest winter weather response

    January 20, 2025

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    AIR FORCE, ARMY

    Alabama National Guard personnel responded to an earlier winter-assistance activation, shown here Jan. 11, 2025. (Alabama National Guard photo) MONTGOMERY — The Alabama National Guard has called to duty more than 400 service members in preparation to assist local responders during the next several days for severe freezing weather, snow and ice across the southern…

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  • Maxwell AFB begins Grey Wolf training role; 24th Helicopter Squadron activated for special missions

    Maxwell AFB begins Grey Wolf training role; 24th Helicopter Squadron activated for special missions

    January 14, 2025

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    AIR FORCE

    By Troy Turner [email protected] MONTGOMERY – Special-mission aviators for worldwide service in nuclear security, VIP transportation, and survival/evasion/resistance/escape operations will be in the high-level training activities at Maxwell Air Force Base as it becomes a key component for the military’s MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter program. The recent activation of the 24th Helicopter Squadron, under the…

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  • TURNER: Sharing hammers and nails with Jimmy Carter

    TURNER: Sharing hammers and nails with Jimmy Carter

    January 9, 2025

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    COMMENTARY

    By Troy Turner [email protected] The gray-haired man wore a carpenter’s apron with the same authority as an Old West gunslinger donning his six-shooter. Armed with a hammer, he could drive nails fast and steady, while his friendly smile could give way at any moment to the steely eyes of a craftsman vexed with the sight…

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  • Alabama National Guard activates for winter weather support

    Alabama National Guard activates for winter weather support

    January 9, 2025

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    Uncategorized

    Alabama National Guard personnel responded to assist stranded motorists during a winter storm one year ago in January 2024. (ANG photo) MONTGOMERY — The Alabama National Guard has activated approximately 350 service members to assist local first responders and state support agencies in anticipation of severe winter weather later this week, officials announced Wednesday. The…

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  • Navy adds Huntsville-based Davidson to its SeaPort-NxG procurement list

    Navy adds Huntsville-based Davidson to its SeaPort-NxG procurement list

    January 6, 2025

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    CONTRACTS, CYBERSECURITY, NAVY

    By Troy Turner [email protected] The U.S. Navy has selected Davidson, an engineering and technology research firm based in Huntsville, for inclusion in its SeaPort Next Generation program, the company announced on Monday. Known as SeaPort-NxG, the program is the Navy’s streamlined procurement vehicle for professional support services across the Navy, Marine Corps and other Department…

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  • Medal of Honor profile: Army Col. Robert L. Howard of Opelika

    Medal of Honor profile: Army Col. Robert L. Howard of Opelika

    January 6, 2025

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    ARMY

    Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert L. Howard, a Green Beret, carries a North Vietnamese Army prisoner of war during an incident in Vietnam. Howard is a Medal of Honor recipient and one of America’s most decorated soldiers. By Katie Lange DOD News Army Col. Robert Lewis Howard was a legend for his service in the Special…

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  • Northrop Grumman-Huntsville wins $481 million contract for updates to battle command system

    Northrop Grumman-Huntsville wins $481 million contract for updates to battle command system

    January 5, 2025

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    ARMY, CONTRACTS

    A new unit of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Command System is rolled out at Northrop Grumman’s Huntsville facility. (Northrop Grumman) By Troy Turner [email protected] Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Huntsville, was awarded a $481 million Army contract for updates and improvements to software for the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System. The…

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