Authorities identified the shooter at the Pensacola, FL, Naval Air Station as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Saudi Arabia national.

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China has banned the US Navy from making stops in Hong Kong after President Donald Trump signed legislation supporting the city’s pro-democracy protesters.

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President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and First Lady Melania Trump honored military dog Conan at the White House today.

She is no ordinary military dog. Conan is the dog who cornered ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi when he killed himself.

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Secretary of Defense Mark Esper fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer due to the latter’s attempts to strike a deal with the White House over Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, the man who posed next to a dead body of an ISIS terrorist.

Esper discovered Spencer’s actions after the fact, which made him lose...

While American forces raided a compound that held ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the military dogs came out as heroes. They chased al-Baghdadi “down a dark underground tunnel before he detonated a suicide vest.”

The explosion injured one dog, but the heroic animal should recover.

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The New York Times wants you to know who the real enemy of U.S. troops was in the raid to get Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: DONALD TRUMP.

According to a handful of unnamed sources cited by...

Last night Trump tweeted that “Something Very Big Has Just Happened”.

There was a lot of speculation about what that “Big” thing was. Based on news reports this morning, it was the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. Special Forces in Syria. We will carry Trump’s 9 a.m. press statement...

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that my son is participating in the Serra High Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC).

I’m nearing the end of my time writing about NJROTC, as my boy is graduating in June.

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Imagine what would happen if a campus social justice mob came after this guy.

The Associated Press reports:

Former Navy SEAL enters Yale as a 52-year-old freshman

Former Navy SEAL James Hatch says heading to class as a freshman at Yale University is just about as nerve-wracking as preparing for the uncertainty of combat.

At...

There has been another walk-back of shame for our press this week.

Earlier this week, social media was breathlessly spreading NBC’s report that new Trump administration guidelines could potentially deny “birthright citizenship” to the children of American military members abroad.

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Roy Knight Jr. of Texas left the United States to serve in the Vietnam War as a pilot in 1967.

His remains finally came back to Texas yesterday on a plane flown by his son. The arrival brought the entire airport to a halt.

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This is a free college program people can get behind. People who are willing to serve should go to the front of the line.

The Hattiesburg American reports:

USM offers free tuition to Mississippi National Guard

The University of Southern Mississippi has entered into an agreement to provide free undergraduate tuition to the men...

Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, backed by an organization called PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts), recently ended an occupation of the Massachusetts Statehouse, where they demanded free college.

The demonstration ended when officials informed them that their yelling was disrupting a ceremony for Gold Star Families who were...

Our tax dollars at work! The Department of Defense admitted to The New York Post that officials still investigate any reports on UFOs:

In a statement provided exclusively to The Post, a Department of Defense spokesman said a secret government initiative called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program [AATIP] “did pursue research...

After the Singapore Summit, a joint North Korea-America effort began to recover, return, and identify the remains of U.S. service personnel remaining behind at the end of the Korean War.

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It’s probably a pretty safe bet that there won’t be any protests here. Military grads know how to show respect.

Military.com reports:

Germany won’t be meeting its NATO spending target this year, the country’s finance ministry disclosed. “Defense spending is projected to fall well short of NATO’s 2 percent target,” German state broadcaster DW News reported Wednesday.

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