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‘Turn on the Lights’: DAVD Display Helps Navy Divers Navigate Undersea Conditions
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Coda Octopus Divers Augmented Vision Display (DAVD) enables divers to better operate in inhospitable underwater environments.
‘Utter chaos’: Amid confusing ban rollout, trans troops fight to serve
Army Maj. Erica Vandal has spent her entire adult life on active duty. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, she’s served her country proudly for nearly 14 years. Military service is in her blood. Her father also graduated from West Point and served in the Army for 40 years. One of her brothers is a former Marine Corps pilot, and another is an active-duty Navy pilot. “The military is a critical...[Read More]
‘Warfare’: A Real-Time Iraq War Combat Film from a Navy SEAL and the Director of ‘Civil War’
Scheduled for release in 2025, “Warfare” follows a team of SEALs holed up in an Iraqi home, following their action in real time, telling the story of that day from the memories of the American service members who fought their way out of an insurgent attack.
‘Warfare’ directors talk filmmaking process, capturing combat realism
Nov. 19, 2006 is remembered as hell on earth for Petty Officer Ray Mendoza and members of Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Ramadi. That day, Mendoza’s team was ambushed in a coordinated attack — a grenade, an improvised explosive device and a hail of small arms fire — shortly after setting up sniper overwatch in an Iraqi residence. By the time the team was evacuated, an Iraqi Army scout was dead. T...[Read More]
‘Warfare’ directors talk filmmaking process, capturing combat realism
Nov. 19, 2006 is remembered as hell on earth for Petty Officer Ray Mendoza and members of Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Ramadi. That day, Mendoza’s team was ambushed in a coordinated attack — a grenade, an improvised explosive device and a hail of small arms fire — shortly after setting up sniper overwatch in an Iraqi residence. By the time the team was evacuated, an Iraqi Army scout was dead. T...[Read More]
‘Warfare’ puts realistic carnage of Iraq War in theaters
Ray Mendoza had been in gunfights prior to Nov. 19, 2006. He’d experience his fair share after. But the fight that ensued that day, after members of Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Ramadi set up sniper overwatch in an Iraqi residence, would be seared into his memory. Ramadi had become a hornet’s nest of insurgent activity in 2006. For Mendoza’s team, who occupied the home alongside Marines from an...[Read More]