Special Ops CV-22 Hit by Ground Fire in South Sudan, Personnel Injured

The US Africa Command confirmed this morning that several US servicemembes were injured today while trying to evacuate American citizens form the embattled town of Bor in South Sudan. In a statement, an AFRICOM official wrote that three CV-22 Ospreys—which are the US Air Force Special Operations variant—“were fired on by small arms fire by…

UPDATED: Obama Cancels Huge Military Exercise in Egypt; Hagel Calls Cairo

                              US Marines during Operation Bright Star 2009 In another attempt walk the line between expressing his administration’s concern with the violence that the military-led government in Egypt has launched upon protesters in Cairo without taking any concrete punitive steps, President Obama announced today that the United States was pulling out of a biennial joint…