An Obscure Military Program Helps Local Cops Buy Armored Cars and Spyware. It Might Balloon Under Trump.

The 1122 program, as it’s known, presents a danger to protesters facing off against militarized cops, according to a new ...
Yahoo

So many mobilized Russian reservists had to buy their own military gear that thermal underwear now costs up to $340 and a hiking backpack costs as much as $600

Russian reservists forced to buy their own gear are finding sky-high prices in stores, reports say. Some items like body armor vests cost up to 10 times than normal, one Russian news site wrote. Putin ...
Stars and Stripes

Man conned US military into buying $20M in fake uniforms and gear from China, feds say

(Tribune News Service) — The U.S. military was conned into buying $20 million worth of fake, unsafe uniforms and gear by a man who is now going to prison, prosecutors say. Tens of thousands of fake ...
The Fayetteville Observer

Clothing company started by former 82nd paratroopers honors minority servicemembers, veterans

As the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the country and stories circulated about the police killings of George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor along with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, four veterans whose early ...
Air Force Times

Supplier who sold $20 million in counterfeit Air Force gear faces jail

Editor’s note: This story was updated Nov. 1 at 1:21 p.m. to include new information from the Air Force and Associated Press. A clothing wholesaler faces more than three years in federal prison for ...
Military Times

Unknowns about Ukraine gear accountability revealed in watchdog report

Volunteers and residents clear debris of an apartment building destroyed after Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. (Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press) The Defense Department ...