In a report released Monday, the U.S. Navy said the three USS George Washington sailors who died by suicide in April "had no social or working relationships with one another."
A Navy helicopter crashed in the rural Southern California desert Thursday evening with no fatalities, just a day after a Marine Osprey aircraft went down in the same region, killing all five people aboard.
problems, apparent poor troop moral and errors ukrainian troops exploited. the forces have killed a second russian general within days of a general killed last week. u.s. intelligence agencies estimate that up to 4,000 russian soldiers have been killed during the two-week long invasion of ukraine. put that in context for a second. the u.s. had around 2500 military deaths during our 20-year war in afghanistan. here is satellite video showing the long parade of russian armored vehicles, some 40 miles long heading toward ukraine s capital for days it has not been moving. u.s. officials attribute the apparent stall to logistical challenges on the russian side, challenges they believe the russians didn t anticipate. the resistance may continue to surprise but putin s answer to surprise is brutality and according to u.s. intel chiefs, he s likely he s unlikely to be detoured. we assess putin feels
never anticipated at least in my mind that after five weeks this would be the situation in ukraine. i think he thought this would be a fairly quick exercise and be in control of most of ukraine by now. i want to read the reporting that builds into the analysis you have offered about the lack of a battlefield commander based on our analysis. the lack of a unifying military leader in ukraine meant that russian units are in sync. they have been plagued by poor logistics, flagging morale and between 7,000 and 15,000 military deaths. it is also contributing to the death of at least seven russian generals as officers are pushed to the front lines to untangle problems that western militaries would leave to more junior officers or senior enlisted