Frank Welch, who served as Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard during the service’s post-9/11 transformation, died June 25 at his home in Spotsylvania, Virginia. He was 65.Welch was the Coast Guard’s ninth top enlisted chief, serving as MCPOCG from October 2002 to June 2006, a period when the Coast Guard joined the Department of Homeland Security, established specialized units to engage in high threat operations, deployed to support Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, responded to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and reorganized into sectors.He served as senior enlisted adviser to then Commandant Adm. Thomas Collins, providing insight on major issues facing the enlisted force, including personnel concerns and challenges with the service’s aging equipment and work and living conditions. Welch enlisted in the Coast Guard in November 1979, serving as quartermaster aboard four cutters and as officer in charge of two, the coastal patrol boats Sockeye and Point Chico. He later served as command master chief for the Ninth District — now the Great Lakes District — and school chief of the Chief Petty Officer Academy in Petaluma, California.In a Coast Guard-wide message Friday to service members, Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday and MCPOCG Phillip Waldron described…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A mother of two and longtime postal worker was killed while delivering mail Tuesday in North Carolina, officials said, leaving her children orphaned just months after their father died in a December car accident.Brandi Reynolds, who was a postal deliver driver for the United States Postal Service, was shot and killed on Friday just before 4:16 p.m. in Hayes, North Carolina, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. William Craig Durham was arrested after allegedly killing Reynolds and is charged with kidnapping and murder.Authorities found Reynolds dead when they arrived to the scene.LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCAST Reynolds was employed as a rural mail carrier for the USPS, according to The Wilkes Record. She was delivering mail when Durham allegedly shot and killed her, according to the Charlotte Observer.SUSPECT CHARGED IN FATAL STABBING OF POSTAL WORKER IN NYC DELI OVER SPOT IN LINE HAS HISTORY OF KNIFE VIOLENCEAuthorities alleged in an arrest report obtained by the Charlotte Observer that Durham restrained Reynolds and removed “the victim from one place to another without the consent of the victim.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? FIND MORE ON THE…

Israel has continued its military intervention in Lebanon, despite a memorandum of understanding and an interim peace deal that could be the first step to ending the war with Iran. What is making matters worse is that Israel is also preparing for a permanent occupation of Lebanon. This continued military presence in Lebanon is problematic, said Tehran-based Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi. He told RT that Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon reflects its broader territorial ambitions and shows that the US is failing to uphold its commitments under the interim peace deal with Iran. Israel has rejected all calls to stop the aggression in Lebanon. It has expressed its disgust with the US’s willingness to sign a peace agreement for the war-mongering ruling class in Jerusalem. Israel Rejects Iran & US Calls To Halt War With Lebanon Iran and the US reached a tentative agreement earlier this month. Tehran demanded that Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon. Last week, West Jerusalem and the Lebanese government signed a US-brokered deal for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces pending Hezbollah’s disarmament. –RT Israel Continues Its Attacks On Lebanon Despite MoU Signing by Trump In all fairness, Israel did not sign the memorandum of understanding, the…

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For more than 15 years, the Office of Naval Research has explored how video games can affect human cognition. While researchers often found evidence that they can improve cognitive performance, the concept has had limited application into real-world programs.That may be changing.In January, Marine Corps University began using a modified version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7 at its sergeant’s course in Quantico, Virginia, to help strengthen leadership, communication, critical thinking and decision making under pressure.The program, called Research into Competency Acquisition with Novel E-gaming, or R-CANE, was developed through a partnership with Virginia Tech and the University of Memphis with funding from the Office of Naval Research.Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy, commanding general of Marine Corps Education Command and president of Marine Corps University, described R-CANE as enhancing “natural intelligence” rather than traditional training. Although the game has Marines playing avatars that use weapons and fight enemy combatants, he said the purpose is improving cognitive performance.“What the game allows us to do is manipulate that cognitive load on the Marines’ actual brain and their ability to take in information, process that information, observe, create a plan on the fly, articulate that plan amongst their team, reassess that plan, create…

By 1940, both England and Germany realized that the Kriegsmarine’s U-Boats were the key to the Battle of the Atlantic. Eliminating the German submarine threat was Britain’s top priority. Expanding the U-Boat fleet was Germany’s greatest hope to bring the British to their knees. In those dark days, the British Isles were surrounded, and the issue was greatly in doubt. A Lancaster B Mark I “Special” bomber modified to carry the 22,000-lb. Grand Slam bomb. Image: Author’s Collection Even though the Royal Navy was developing a convoy system to defend the precious merchant fleet supplying England, U-Boats at sea proved quite difficult to locate and destroy. In May 1940, the RAF went on the offensive, and the German shipyards and naval bases at Hamburg, Emden, and Kiel were targeted. However, the raids were generally ineffective. Even so, the chance to destroy U-Boats while they were in port, or still under construction, was an opportunity that Bomber Command simply couldn’t pass up. And the Germans knew it. U-Boats Under Cover As the Kriegsmarine inherited a wide range of new bases in the North Sea along the Channel Coast and in the Mediterranean, the Germans moved to create specialized defensive structures to protect…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly acknowledged that Ukrainian long-range strikes are creating fuel supply problems inside Russia, as videos obtained by Fox News Digital show long lines, angry motorists and fights erupting at filling stations across several Russian regions.Speaking at a meeting with government ministers and other officials after a wave of Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, Putin said on Sunday that strikes on “critical infrastructure” and energy facilities were creating “problems,” including shortages affecting motorists, businesses and agricultural producers, but said Russia was dealing with them, according to Reuters. The remarks marked a rare admission from the Kremlin that Ukraine’s long-range campaign is having an impact beyond the battlefield.UKRAINE LAUNCHES WHAT APPEARS TO BE ONE OF ITS LARGEST DRONE ATTACKS AGAINST RUSSIA: REPORTFor Ukraine, the fuel crisis is evidence that its long-range strike campaign is doing more than damaging individual facilities. The attacks are forcing Moscow to manage visible problems at home, exposing a vulnerability in a country whose global power has long rested on its energy sector.  The shortages have spread across Russia, including occupied Crimea, southern Russia, Siberia and Moscow. Moscow also is weighing emergency measures, including temporarily…

Boost your shooting skills with the new Double Alpha EDGE shot timer.Fundamentally, shot timers work by combining a timer with a microphone that detects gunshots. It logs exactly when each shot was fired relative to the starting point, initiated with an audible buzzer. Whether you’re performing a drill or shooting a course of fire at a match, the data tells you how long it took from the initial buzzer to the last shot—plus everything in between, such as how long it took you to draw your gun and fire the first shot, the time between shots on the same target (split times), time spent transitioning between targets and how quickly you were able to reload.Shot timers are a necessity in competitive shooting sports like USPSA—you can’t have a huge field of competitors shooting head-to-head against each other in brackets to determine a winner; instead each person shoots the same courses of fire and are scored for accuracy and time to rank their performance.Even if you aren’t a competitor, shot timers are invaluable for training. They allow you to track your progress over time by shooting the same drills on the clock at practice sessions. You can compare your results with…

The United States and Iran have exchanged several strikes since Friday. These renewed attacks are threatening to upend an already precarious peace deal between the two warring nations. Both sides have accused the other of violating the terms of the agreement signed on June 17th. This is the first time the two warring countries have exchanged strikes since the signing of the interim peace deal. Iran Declares Memorandum of Understanding A “Record of US Failure” Iran has already blasted the US as liars. The “very nature” of the US is to break its promises and treaties, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday, following renewed attacks on the Islamic Republic’s coastal infrastructure. Just last week, the ruling class was demanding more money for this war, signaling a potential reignition of the conflict after a tentative interim peace deal was signed. Trump Says Billions of Dollars More Are Needed For Iran War “The aggressor enemy’s… very nature is to violate treaties and break promises,” the IRGC said in a statement cited by Iran’s Fars news agency, as reported by RT. The US attacked Iranian facilities on Sunday morning using the “pretext of the IRGC Navy’s confrontation with a rogue vessel,” it added. In…

While Tommy Paul was taking care of business in the first round at Wimbledon, his influencer fiancée Paige Lorenze was doing what she does best, posting content.This wasn’t just any content, this was content from her Nantucket bachelorette party.Nothing says Screencaps on a Tuesday in late June like an influencer’s Nantucket bachelorette party. The party portion of the festivities were shared by the tennis WAG on Monday and, this goes without saying, came after a traditional bachelorette fitting.You can risk going through with a bachelorette party without a proper fitting, but that’s not a risk Paige was willing to take, and you can’t really blame her. This sort of activity prior to the party might seem unnecessary to some of you out there, but that’s only because you’re the sort of person who doesn’t have your own bikini bride collaboration before walking down the aisle.DANICA PATRICK IMPRESSES THE MAHA CROWD BY TAKING UP TENNIS AS HER NEWEST FITNESS WORKOUT, BAT DOGS & MEAT!Her sophisticated tastes are going to exceed what you might think is normal. That’s perfectly fine. She’s chasing greatness and with that comes certain sacrifices. One of those is any sense of a basic “slap a sash on…