Daily Report

May 2, 2017

Budget Deal Gives DOD Additional $12.5 Billion

Lawmakers have by this coming Friday night to sign a continuing resolution keeping the government running through September, and they’re purportedly eyeing a deal reached Sunday that will allow that to happen on time. The $1 trillion deal, according to...

DOD Releases OIR Civilian Casualty Data

The Department of Defense on Sunday released its most recent report on civilian casualties resulting from coalition strikes in Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led mission against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. DOD assessed 28 reports of civilian casualties and found...

SpaceX Launches First National Security Payload

SpaceX successfully launched its first National Security Space payload from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Monday at 7:15 a.m. The 45th Space Wing at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., supported the launch of NROL-76, a classified National Reconnaissance Office mission, aboard a...

DOD Names Two Rangers Killed in Nangarhar

The Department of Defense released the names of two US Army Rangers from the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Ga., who were killed during an April 26 raid in Mohmand Valley, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Sgt. Joshua Rodgers,...

US Paratrooper Killed in Mosul

1st Lt. Weston C. Lee, 25, of Bluffton, Ga., was killed Saturday when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol unit outside of Mosul, Iraq. He was a paratrooper assigned to the 1st Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade...

Mosul Victory Coming This Month, Says Iraqi Commander

The recapture of Mosul from ISIS forces should be complete “in a maximum of three weeks,” the Iraqi army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Othman al-Ghanmi said Sunday, according to Reuters citing an Iraqi state-run newspaper. Beginning in October of...