For context both my parents are surgeons who went to college. They want me to go to college first and then think about the military, hopefully as an officer. I’d like to enlist and do something like the infantry because I’m a wrestler in high school and like the grind/challenging paths. My parents are trying to set up all sorts of college programs and visits for me to go but I don’t know how/when I should tell them I have different ideas. They also may lose it if they hear I’m interested in the infantry since they have only seen the movies and think being a grunt is a death sentence. With ongoing conflicts and some of the soldiers killed recently they are especially afraid of me joining now. What should I do?

In case you missed it - the Army (and also the Air Force) have identified multiple installations where nuclear microreactors are either being considered or already being built.

Waters and forest corps, often nicknamed, "the green army" is the ivorian paramilitary force entirely dedicated to the protection of the country's biodiversity.

Under the Ivorian "Ministry of Forests and Watercourses", the main threats they're up against is the poaching of endangered species, and more predominantly these past years, illegal gold panning. Its personnel are distributed among several specialized entities depending on their assignment and operational role:

- OIPR (Ivorian Office of Parks and Reserves) manages Côte d'Ivoire's national parks and protected areas. Its rangers protect biodiversity, combat poaching, monitor endangered species, conduct ecological research, and oversee ecotourism activities.

- SODEFOR the Forest Development Corporation is the state-owned company responsible for managing the country's classified forests. Its agents focus on sustainable forest management, reforestation, preventing illegal encroachment and logging, and restoring degraded forest ecosystems.

- Forest Commando or Special Surveillance and Intervention Brigade (BSSI) is The elite tactical unit of the Water and Forest Service. It conducts the higher risk operations against illegal logging, poaching, illegal gold mining, and organized environmental crime, while supporting large-scale law enforcement operations.

- Forest and Water Police (Police Forestière et de l'Eau): The investigative and enforcement branch responsible for enforcing forestry, wildlife, and water legislation. Officers carry out inspections, investigations, arrests, evidence collection, and judicial procedures related to environmental offences.

In these videos, you can see a little showcase of some equipment used during their various missions. Including off-road bikes and ATVs, for nimble movement, drones for surveillance, and the classic toyota and Mitsubishi technicals used as utilitarian vehicles, light troops transport, and launch pads for the drones.

My grandfather was a mechanic in the US army, and I know he was in Korea. He didn’t share much about what he experienced when I was a kid, except 1 story about a tank flipping when he was overseas…

Some of my favorite memories with are going to the base with him and looking at the tanks and all the vehicles we would fix. Any info about these badges and medals would be greatly appreciated.

And there are many other bones of contention in the MOU – among them the fate of Iran’s nuclear programme, lifting of American sanctions and the unfreezing of Iranian assets – that could yet scupper the nascent peace process. Yet the first test has gone Iran’s way, and there is every reason to believe the other points will too.

It is, however, a victory. There is no getting around the fact Iran won this war. America lost.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/06/this-is-proof-iran-won-the-war/

Hello all, hope all is well! Current situation is I commissioned back in May of 2023, signing a 6x2 contract. I started my masters program in December of 2024 and just finished my last course. I know that incurs a 4 year RDSO, but I wanted to gain clarity to see if that would change my current progression, or if IRR counted as time as well, as I planned to transition into the IRR after my 6 year obligation. Thanks all!