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  • Huntsville company tapped for cybersecurity services to intelligence agency

    Huntsville company tapped for cybersecurity services to intelligence agency

    September 26, 2023

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    CYBERSECURITY, MARINES

    The Department of Defense has announced an $86 million contract for a Huntsville-based company to provide cybersecurity support services to one of its

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  • Alabama played a major role in destruction of chemical weapons stockpile

    Alabama played a major role in destruction of chemical weapons stockpile

    September 9, 2023

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    ARMY

    Related link: National Public Radio interview with journalist Troy Turner: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1418277 By Troy Turner Editor-in-chief [email protected] It was 20 years ago on Aug.

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  • The day weapons of mass destruction became lost in a cluster

    The day weapons of mass destruction became lost in a cluster

    September 8, 2023

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    ARMY, OPINION

    Troy Turner is editor-in-chief and senior consultant for AlaDefense.com. IT WAS, WHEN THE NEWS FIRST became public, a strangely quiet and subdued announcement,

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  • Popular songwriter Jimmy Buffett donated aircraft to the USS Alabama battleship park

    Popular songwriter Jimmy Buffett donated aircraft to the USS Alabama battleship park

    September 4, 2023

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    AIR FORCE, ARMY, MARINES, NAVY

    By Troy Turner [email protected] Much has been made of the late Jimmy Buffett’s ties to Alabama, including his brief time as a student

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  • USS Mobile Bay decommissions, honors 36 years of service

    USS Mobile Bay decommissions, honors 36 years of service

    August 25, 2023

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    NAVY

    By Julie Ann Ripley, DOD News SAN DIEGO – USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) honored more than three decades of naval service during

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  • Selma company lands $155 million in new contracts to make Army coats, Marine apparel

    Selma company lands $155 million in new contracts to make Army coats, Marine apparel

    August 23, 2023

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    ARMY, CONTRACTS, MARINES

    By Troy Turner [email protected] American Apparel Inc., a Selma-based company, landed in July a nearly $83 million five-year contract to produce men’s uniform

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  • DOD space plan includes protection of assets in orbit, says senior official

    DOD space plan includes protection of assets in orbit, says senior official

    August 17, 2023

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    ARMY, SPACE FORCE

    John F. Plumb, the assistant secretary of defense for space policy, recently addressed a think-tank audience in Colorado to explain a change in

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  • USNS Comfort revisits Alabama Shipyard

    USNS Comfort revisits Alabama Shipyard

    August 6, 2023

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    CONTRACTS, NAVY

    By Troy Turner [email protected] The USNS Comfort, one of the Navy’s two primary hospital ships along with its sister ship USNS Mercy, is

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  • Officer stationed at Maxwell AFB talks about what lured her into Space Force

    Officer stationed at Maxwell AFB talks about what lured her into Space Force

    August 5, 2023

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    SPACE FORCE

    By Katie Lange DOD News As a military brat and a childhood fan of Star Trek, it’s no surprise that Space Force Maj.

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  • Boeing, Air Force tout new trainer jet, a project once sought for Macon County

    Boeing, Air Force tout new trainer jet, a project once sought for Macon County

    August 5, 2023

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    AIR FORCE

    Alabama connection remains alive with T-7A Red Hawk By Troy Turner [email protected] Alabama officials in recent years hoped that the next generation of

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  • Mobile-made USS Canberra joins U.S. fleet… and already is making history

    Mobile-made USS Canberra joins U.S. fleet… and already is making history

    August 3, 2023

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    NAVY

    By U.S. Navy, Pacific Fleet SAN DIEGO — The USS Canberra (LCS 30) joined the U.S. Navy active fleet on July 22 with the

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  • USS Alabama’s 100 patrols remind of deterrence mission

    USS Alabama’s 100 patrols remind of deterrence mission

    August 2, 2023

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    NAVY

    By Troy Turner [email protected] August 2022 The USS Alabama nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine achieved a significant naval milestone when it completed its 100th

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