🇺🇸❌🇺🇸 — 📰 Military.com: National Guard Units in 7 States Have Held onto Confederate Streamers Despite a Deadline to Turn Them In
— "Army National Guard units with a Civil War-era lineage were ordered to relinquish any Confederate battle streamers from their guidons, but more than 100 of the streamers have yet to be recovered a week after the deadline.

At least 48 mostly southern National Guard units were directed in March to strip their guidons of rebel streamers to be preserved at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Streamers hang on the top of unit flags, which are often held by a soldier during a formation, and are awarded for participating in wars or specific campaigns ranging from the Colonial era to the Global War on Terrorism.

The Army had collected 384 of 491 streamers as of the Sept. 1 deadline, according to a spokesperson with the Army's Human Resources Command. That was part of an effort mandated by Congress to strip tributes to the Confederacy from military property, including the names of major bases.

States that sent all streamers were Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina and Texas.
But units in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia have yet to surrender them."

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https://archive.is/YQmM6

🇺🇸🚀📹 — On September 6, 2023, it was reported that the United States Armed Forces conducted a successful test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Air Force Global Strike Command informed.

According to the official statement, a joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and 30th Space Launch Delta Guardians launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with three test re-entry vehicles Sept. 6 at 1:26 a.m. Pacific Time from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

The ICBM's reentry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles (~6760 Km) to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. These test launches verify the accuracy and reliability of the ICBM weapon system, providing valuable data to ensure a continued safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.

According to the Statement, the test launch is a culmination of months of preparation that involve multiple government partners and is "part of routine and periodic activities intended to demonstrate that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable and effective to deter twenty-first century threats and reassure its allies"

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https://archive.is/iMPhD