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AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Military GPS-jamming exercise linked to medevac crash that killed four in New Mexico Wed Aug 5 17:33:27 2026

A U.S. Air Force electronic warfare test knocked out GPS navigation across hundreds of miles of New Mexico airspace on the night a medevac plane flew straight into a 10,000-foot mountain, killing all four people aboard. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air left Roswell just before midnight on May 13, carrying two pilots and two nurses […] The post Military GPS-jamming exercise linked to medevac crash that killed four in New Mexico appeared first on American Almanac .

A U.S. Air Force electronic warfare test knocked out GPS navigation across hundreds of miles of New Mexico airspace on the night a medevac plane flew straight into a 10,000-foot mountain, killing all four people aboard. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air left Roswell just before midnight on May 13, carrying two pilots and two nurses on a mission to pick up a patient in Ruidoso and fly them to Albuquerque. Eight minutes after takeoff, the crew reported losing GPS and asked air traffic control for help. By 12:08 a.m. on May 14, the aircraft had overshot the landing pattern by roughly 10 miles. The pilots never made it to the airport. The plane struck the Capitan Mountains at full speed, and nobody survived. The crash has been linked to a…Open

STRIPES (Lydia Gordon) - Marines seek new use of Army-created personality test as means of gleaning keener insights | Stars and Stripes Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 2026

After decades of using standardized testing to vet recruits, the Marine Corps could begin using a personality test to identify traits that lead to success.

WAR (Daniel Murnin, Fort Benning Public Affairs Office) - Snipers Test Signature Management Tech to Enhance Health, Safety Tue Mar 31 19:01:31 2026

The Army Sniper Course at Fort Benning, Ga., is working to improve sniper survivability and lethality in large-scale combat operations by evaluating and integrating advanced signature management technology into training.

WAR (Ana Henderson, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground) - Army Tests APEX Counter-UAS Round in Arizona Tue Mar 10 15:31:00 2026

The Yuma Test Center at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., recently tested a new 30 mm Aviation Proximity Explosive round, primarily developed for firing from the AH-64 Apache helicopter.

WAR (Mark Schauer, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground) - Upcoming Artemis II Space Mission Has Multiple Yuma Proving Ground Connections Wed Jan 28 16:42:55 2026

NASA announced the first crewed mission of the Artemis II will fly around the moon after an opportune launch window sometime between early February and the end of April.