The American soldier who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-in-north-korean-custody-after-crossing-dmz-during-tour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran across the border</a> into North Korea in July is back in U.S. custody after being expelled from the communist regime Wednesday, a U.S. official confirmed.  
A North Korean state news agency reported that the government closed its investigation into U.S. Army soldier Travis King, 23, deciding to expel the American who was taken into custody by the DPRK after sprinting across the heavily guarded demilitarized zone (DMZ) line in July while on a civilian tour. A U.S. official confirmed that King is now in U.S. custody, <a href="https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1707025149466193980" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to POLITICO reporter Lara Seligman.
&#8220;The relevant organ of the DPRK decided to expel Travis King, a soldier of the U.S. Army who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, under the law of the Republic,&#8221; North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said, according to South Korean news outlet <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230927009451315?section=nk/nk">Yonhap News Agency</a>. 
King, who had reportedly been disciplined for assault in South Korea and was set to be <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/27/asia/north-korea-travis-king-expel-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> from the U.S. military, allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-korea-claims-american-soldier-entered-country-after-becoming-disillusioned-by-unequal-american-society">told</a> the North Koreans that he fled into the country because he “harbored ill feelings against inhuman mistreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army” and “was disillusioned at the unequal American society.” 
The alleged remarks made by King after entering the Hermit Kingdom could not be verified by the Pentagon and were reported by a North Korean media arm that releases statements tailored to the communist regime’s wishes, which usually involves painting the U.S. as an evil empire. The U.S. State Department said it remained committed to getting King out of the country and back home, saying last month it was “working through all available channels to achieve that outcome.”
North Korea did not specify when or how King would be expelled. 
Prior to crossing into North Korea, King was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-soldier-in-north-korean-custody-was-facing-disciplinary-action-over-assault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">involved</a> in at least two separate episodes where Korean police were brought in to intervene, including incidents in September and October 2022. 
In September, King had a case settled after he was accused of punching a man in the face at a South Korean club. The following month, he was accused of acting aggressively toward police officers responding to a call about a fight, court documents obtained by Reuters show.
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He spent almost two months in detention for the assault charge, according to The Associated Press. The news agency reported that he had been released on July 10. Officials have said that King was going to be sent back to America before he crossed into North Korea. 
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.
This article has been updated to include that an American official confirmed King is in U.S. custody.

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North Korea Expels American Soldier Who Was Detained After Running Across Border

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The 911 call from the aftermath of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-asks-public-for-help-in-finding-missing-f-35" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an F-35 crash</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Carolina</a> last Sunday was released on Friday, revealing more details about the expensive incident that is still under investigation by the U.S. military.
The call came after the pilot of the F-35 showed up at a house after ejecting from the plane and asked for help. He told a police dispatcher that he did not know where the plane, but said it had went through an &#8220;aircraft failure.&#8221; 
“I guess we’ve got a pilot in our house, and he says he got ejected,” said a local man who called the police. 
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry — what happened?” the dispatcher replied. 
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a pilot in the house, and I guess he landed in my backyard, and we&#8217;re trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please,” the resident said before the pilot started talking. 
&#8220;We have a military jet crash. I’m the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling. I’m not sure where the airplane is,&#8221; the pilot can be heard saying.&#8221;It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected.&#8221;
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911 call from the pilot who ejected from the F-35 over South Carolina. <a href="https://t.co/BovDqALeuH">pic.twitter.com/BovDqALeuH</a>
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After police arrived, the pilot was reportedly transported to a local medical center in stable condition while his wingman safely landed at the base, <a href="https://www.counton2.com/news/pilot-ejected-from-f-35-plane-in-north-charleston/?utm_source=dlvr.it">WCBD</a> reported.
The plane could not initially be found, with military officials asking for the public’s help finding the plane and describing the incident as a &#8220;mishap.&#8221; Debris from the plane was later located in Williamsburg County on Monday.
The plane, which cost about $100 million, kept going for about 60 miles after the pilot ejected. A spokesperson for Joint Base Charleston said the F-35B Lightning II jet from the Marine Attack Training Squadron was placed on autopilot before the pilot ejected, <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/officials-mishap-involving-f-35-occurs-near-north-charleston-pilot-hospitalized-after-ejecting-military-joint-base-marine-corps-air-station-beaufort-wciv">according to WCIV</a>. 
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The conditions of the crash are still under investigation but one Marine Corps official <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/09/20/what-we-know-about-marine-corps-f-35-crash-backyard-ejection-and-what-went-wrong.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Military Times that the pilot was “forced to eject” after a malfunction with the plane. 
A recent <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f-35-fighter-jets-only-mission-capable-55-percent-time-rcna111308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repor</a>t from the Government Accountability Office said that the F-35 fighter jets are “mission ready” just over half of the time.
“If the aircraft can only perform 55% of the time and the goal is 85 to 90% of the time, taxpayers are not getting their money’s worth,” said Diana Maurer, the author of the GAO report.

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‘Not Sure Where The Airplane Is’: 911 Call From F-35 Crash In South Carolina Released

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The U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marines">Marines</a> ordered a two-day stand-down of aviation units during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-asks-public-for-help-in-finding-missing-f-35">search</a> for a missing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-shows-f-35-strike-fighter-crashing-into-ground-in-texas-pilot-ejecting-from-plane">F-35 stealth fighter jet</a>, according to a new report.
In an email to his military branch on Monday, Marine Corps acting Commandant Eric Smith said the temporary pause on flights will give officials time to discuss safety measures and procedures, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/marines-continue-search-35-after-mishap-officials-order/story?id=103287655">ABC News revealed</a>.
The report noted Smith emphasized that he still had full confidence in the aviation units but determined the stand-down was the &#8220;right and prudent&#8221; move after the F-35 disappeared in South Carolina and a recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/world/asia/marines-plane-crash-australia.html">Osprey crash</a> in Australia that killed three U.S. Marines.
A Marine Corps spokesperson told the news outlet the stand-down covers aviation units both inside and outside the United States.
&#8220;During the stand down, aviation commanders will lead discussions with their Marines focusing on the fundamentals of safe flight operations, ground safety, maintenance and flight procedures, and maintaining combat readiness. This stand down is being taken to ensure the service is maintaining operational standardization of combat-ready aircraft with well-prepared pilots and crews,&#8221; the Marine Corps said in a <a href="https://www.marines.mil/News/Press-Releases/Press-Release-Display/Article/3529618/marine-corps-orders-aviation-safety-stand-down/">news release</a>.
&#8220;This stand down invests time and energy in reinforcing the Marine aviation community’s established policies, practices and procedures and ensures Marine Corps remains a ready and highly-trained fighting force,&#8221; the release added.
Joint Base Charleston, which is located in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-carolina">South Carolina</a>, announced on Sunday that efforts were underway to locate the aircraft with the help of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort following a &#8220;mishap&#8221; in the afternoon.
&#8220;The pilot ejected safely. If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600,&#8221; Joint Base Charleston said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703523385475534968">post</a> to its X account.
&#8220;Based on the jet’s last-known position and in coordination with the FAA, we are focusing our attention north of JB Charleston, around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion,&#8221; Joint Base Charleston <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703541506915668242">said</a> in a second post.
On Monday, Joint Base Charleston gave a brief <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703818164503490892">update</a> on its X account, sharing that the search for the F-35 involved &#8220;ground and air assets&#8221; with the help of various military, government, and law enforcement entities. By the early evening, the account <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703898175138894214">said</a> a debris field had been located in Williamsburg County, two hours northeast of Joint Base Charleston, and advised members of the public to stay away while a recovery operation gets underway.
Officials have told various media outlets that the missing F-35 — estimated to be worth <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/09/18/f-35-fighter-jet-still-missing-south-carolina-after-pilot-ejected-sunday.html">about $80 million</a> — was placed on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marines-order-stand-down-for-aviation-units-amid-search-for-missing-f-35#:~:text=was%20placed%20on-,autopilot,-before%20the%20pilot">autopilot</a> before the pilot ejected, had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marines-order-stand-down-for-aviation-units-amid-search-for-missing-f-35#:~:text=pilot%20ejected%2C%20had-,transponder%20issues,-%2C%20and%20was%20not">transponder issues</a>, and was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marines-order-stand-down-for-aviation-units-amid-search-for-missing-f-35#:~:text=not%20carrying%20any%20live%20missiles">not carrying any live missiles</a>. One news outlet, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marines-order-stand-down-for-aviation-units-amid-search-for-missing-f-35#:~:text=One%20news%20outlet%2C-,NBC%20affiliate%20WCBD,-%2C%20reported%20Joint%20Base">NBC affiliate WCBD</a>, reported Joint Base Charleston said the pilot was transported to a local medical center and in stable condition while his wingman safely landed at the base.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who serves a Lowcountry district, expressed frustration after the congresswoman said she received a briefing from the U.S. Marines earlier on Monday.
&#8220;One of the shortest meetings I’ve ever had, bc guess what, no one [the U.S. Marine Corps] sent over to brief me and my staff had any answers. Shocker,&#8221; Mace <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marines-order-stand-down-for-aviation-units-amid-search-for-missing-f-35#:~:text=answers.%20Shocker%2C%E2%80%9D%20Mace-,said,-on%20X%2C">said</a> on X, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marines-order-stand-down-for-aviation-units-amid-search-for-missing-f-35#:~:text=said%20on%20X%2C-,adding,-%2C%20%E2%80%9CNo%20one%20knows">adding</a>, &#8220;No one knows if the F-35 is in the air or under the water.&#8221;

An F-35B fighter jet

Marines Order Stand-Down For Aviation Units Amid Search For Missing F-35

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Military

National Security

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military">U.S. military</a> asked the public on Sunday for help in locating a missing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-shows-f-35-strike-fighter-crashing-into-ground-in-texas-pilot-ejecting-from-plane">F-35 fighter jet</a>.
Joint Base Charleston, which is located in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-carolina">South Carolina</a>, said on social media that efforts were underway to locate the aircraft with the help of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort following a &#8220;mishap&#8221; in the afternoon.
&#8220;The pilot ejected safely. If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600,&#8221; Joint Base Charleston said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703523385475534968">post</a> to its X account.
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We’re working with <a href="https://twitter.com/MCASBeaufortSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MCASBeaufortSC</a> to locate an F-35 that was involved in a mishap this afternoon. The pilot ejected safely. If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600.
&mdash; Joint Base Charleston (@TeamCharleston) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703523385475534968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Based on the jet’s last-known position and in coordination with the FAA, we are focusing our attention north of JB Charleston, around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion,&#8221; Joint Base Charleston <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703541506915668242">added</a> in a second post to X.
Joint Base Charleston sent out the plea for help at 5:36 p.m. ET and the second post at 6:48 p.m. ET. As of press time, several hours later, there were no further updates on where the F-35 might be located.
A spokesperson for Joint Base Charleston said the F-35B Lightning II jet from Marine Attack Training Squadron was placed on autopilot before the pilot ejected, <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/officials-mishap-involving-f-35-occurs-near-north-charleston-pilot-hospitalized-after-ejecting-military-joint-base-marine-corps-air-station-beaufort-wciv">according to local ABC affiliate WCIV</a>. Another news outlet, <a href="https://www.counton2.com/news/pilot-ejected-from-f-35-plane-in-north-charleston/?utm_source=dlvr.it">NBC affiliate WCBD</a>, reported that Joint Base Charleston said the pilot was transported to a local medical center and in stable condition while his wingman safely landed at the base.
Despite a lack of information on the whereabouts of the missing fighter jet, there was plenty of buzz about the aircraft on social media.
&#8220;How in the hell do you lose an F-35? How is there not a tracking device and we’re asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?&#8221; Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1703586534220255347">said in a post to X</a>.
Others took political shots at President Joe Biden and his administration.
&#8220;Thank goodness the pilot ejected safely. But do we really need &#8216;Find My F-35&#8216; to locate an $80 million dollar jet? Joe Biden’s America,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1703593386463146310">said</a> the account for the House Judiciary GOP.
&#8220;Joe Biden’s Pentagon can’t find a freaking F-35 jet, but don’t worry — they know exactly where all our money in Ukraine is going,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1703586734661919026">said The Federalist&#8217;s Sean Davis</a>.

F-35 Lightning II

U.S. Military Asks Public For Help In Finding Missing F-35

Biden Administration

Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> says that while the Biden administration started the political battle over abortions for service members, she does not support Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) holding up hundreds of military promotions in protest of the administration&#8217;s policy allowing expense-paid travel and up to three weeks leave for an elective abortion.
Haley&#8217;s position on the issue puts her in line with former New Jersey Governor <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4147500-christie-on-tubervilles-choice-to-block-military-promotions-i-dont-think-its-the-right-one/">Chris Christie</a>, who has also called out Tuberville on the campaign trail. Republican presidential candidates who support Tuberville&#8217;s actions include Florida Governor <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/31/desantis-says-he-supports-sen-tommy-tubervilles-block-on-military-promotions-blames-pentagon-00109115">Ron DeSantis</a>, former Vice President <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/25/pence-on-abortion-limits-we-just-cant-rest-or-relent-00103554">Mike Pence</a>, and pharmaceutical executive <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/vivek-ramaswamy-agrees-tommy-tuberville-military-hold">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>. Sen. Tim Scott&#8217;s (R-SC) office &#8220;would not say whether he supports Tuberville’s blockade,&#8221; The Post and Courier <a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/scs-shaw-afb-impacted-by-sen-tommy-tubervilles-blockade-of-military-promotions/article_814705e4-3dd9-11ee-8853-a774935aeef9.html">reported</a> late last month.
The “hold” on general and flag officer promotions blocks the Democrat-controlled Senate from approving the nominations quickly and in batches through a “<a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/research-tools/glossary.htm">unanimous consent</a>” agreement. Tuberville stressed that the Senate could still hold a vote to approve individual nominations, a process he said would be “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/politics/marine-corps-tuberville-nominations-hold/index.html">very easy to do</a>.”
Haley responded to the monthslong holdout when asked about the matter during a Sunday interview with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221;
&#8220;I know you have criticized his decision,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;The military says this is hurting readiness. I know, as a military spouse, you know military spouses are really upset about this.&#8221;
&#8220;Why is the Republican Party tolerating this?&#8221; Haley asked.
Haley responded that she disagreed with the reimbursement policy for travel for abortion and said that she would put an end to it if she becomes president.
&#8220;Secondly, we don&#8217;t need to be using military families as political pawns,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s a mistake.&#8221;
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&#8220;The military members and families, they sacrifice enough. They don&#8217;t need to be a pawn in Congress,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But look at the political games that continue to play. Chuck Schumer could still get this done if he went through and listed each member and had Congress vote on each member.&#8221;
She later noted that it was the Biden administration that started the entire situation, but &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying Senator Tuberville is right in doing this, because I don&#8217;t want to use them as pawns.&#8221;
&#8220;But if you love our military, if you are so adamant about it, then go and make Congress, Republicans and Democrats, have to go through person by person,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Do you honestly think they won&#8217;t say, OK, this is ridiculous, let&#8217;s put an end to it?&#8221;
&#8220;They will. But show your true grit by going out there and saying, fine, if you all are going to play the military for the pawns like this, let&#8217;s go member by member,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Let&#8217;s make them pay the price. Let&#8217;s make them do their job. Let&#8217;s make them suffer so that they know what they&#8217;re doing to these military families. This isn&#8217;t about making it convenient for Congress. This is about making sure you&#8217;re doing right by members of the military. This is making sure you hold the Department of Defense accountable.&#8221;
WATCH:
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&quot;You think the military is political now? You really want to have the US Senate voting on somebody being promoted?&quot;
CNN&#39;s Jake Tapper presses Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley over GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville&#39;s ongoing blockade of military promotions. <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNSotu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/jFj50ccdkF">pic.twitter.com/jFj50ccdkF</a>
&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1700873132590923894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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‘A Mistake’: Haley Says She Does Not Support Tuberville Holding Up Military Promotions Over Abortion Policy

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Three U.S. Marines killed during a training exercise in the Australian north coast city of Darwin on Monday were identified on Tuesday after an American MV-22B Osprey aircraft carrying the troops crashed and wounded several others.
Captain Eleanor V LeBeau, 29, Corporal Spencer R Collart, 21, and Major Tobin J Lewis, 37, were reportedly killed in the crash after the aircraft caught fire when lying in support of Exercise Predators Run.
&#8220;We are deeply saddened by the loss of three respected and beloved members of the MRF-D family,&#8221; Col Brendan Sullivan, commanding officer of the Marine Rotational Force Darwin, said in a <a href="https://www.marines.mil/News/Press-Releases/Press-Release-Display/Article/3507817/update-marine-rotational-force-darwin-mv-22b-osprey-tiltrotor-aircraft-crash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families and with all involved.&#8221;
The tiltrotor aircraft was carrying 23 U.S. Marines when it crashed at roughly 9:30 a.m. local time on Melville Island, off the Northern Territory of mainland Australia in the Timor Sea. Twenty Marines suffered injuries in the crash, and five in serious condition were flown to a town 50 miles away for treatment.
&#8220;At present, we remain focused on required support to the ongoing recovery and investigative efforts,&#8221; Sullivan added.
U.S. Marine Corps officials said three Marines remain in Royal Darwin Hospital, one in critical condition and two in stable condition. Military officials said 17 others were taken to Royal Darwin Hospital, treated for minor injuries, and released.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles <a href="https://apnews.com/article/osprey-crash-australia-marines-89a89b2ba580249f8cd6960909ca0dcd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said she would not detail the conditions of those in the hospital out of respect for them and their families.
&#8220;It&#8217;s&#8230; a credit to everyone involved that we were able to get 20 patients from an extremely remote location on an island into our tertiary hospital within a matter of hours,&#8221; Fyles told reporters.
The deceased Marines had highly decorated careers and received numerous service medals and awards.
Corporal Collart, originally from Arlington, Virginia, enlisted in the Marine Corps in October 2020 and was promoted to Corporal in February 2023. He served in Pensacola, FL, and Jacksonville, NC, before arriving at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, HI. Cpl Collart, an MV-22B crew chief, received the National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, according to military officials.
Captain LeBeau, originally from Belleville, Illinois, piloted the aircraft when it crashed. Authorities reportedly commended her for landing the plane, allowing 20 others to survive the wreck. She was commissioned into the Marine Corps in August 2018 and was promoted to Captain in March 2023. She served in Pensacola, FL, Corpus Christi, TX, and Jacksonville, NC, before arriving at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, HI. Capt LeBeau, an MV-22B pilot, received the National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, according to military officials.
Major Lewis, originally from Jefferson, Colorado, was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 2008, being promoted to Major in 2018. He has served in Pensacola, FL, Corpus Christi, TX, Jacksonville, NC, and Okinawa, Japan, before arriving at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, HI. Maj Lewis, an MV-22B pilot, received two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Navy Unit Commendation, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and four Sea Service Deployment Ribbons, according to military officials.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin paid tribute to the deceased Marines on social media.
&#8220;These Marines served our country with courage and pride, and my thoughts and prayers are with their families today, with the other troops who were injured in the crash, and with the entire USMC family,&#8221; Austin tweeted.
The Osprey aircraft that crashed was one of two that left the Australian town of Darwin for the Tiwi Islands – where Melville Island is located – roughly 50 miles away. The &#8220;routine training exercise&#8221; supported Exercise Predators Run, a multi-nation military exercise comprised of the United States, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and East Timor.
Roughly 2,500 people take part in the military drill, including about 500 from the United States, according to Fox News. The exercise, set to end on September 7 after 12 days, has reportedly been paused following the tragic incident.
Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy said emergency responders were surprised the death toll from the crash was not higher.
&#8220;For a chopper that crashes and catches fire, to have 20 Marines that are surviving, I think that&#8217;s an incredible outcome,&#8221; Murphy said.
Though unclear what caused the incident, this isn&#8217;t the first time the Osprey aircraft has been involved in a fatal crash.
Since 2012, there have been five fatal crashes involving Marine Osprey aircraft, according to the AP. In June 2022, a mechanical failure related to the aircraft&#8217;s clutch caused the deaths of five Marines in California after the Osprey crashed, according to a crash investigation report.
Three months before the fatal incident, four other Marines were killed in an Osprey crash during a NATO exercise in Norway.
Ben Whitehead contributed to this report.

US Marine Corps Identifies Three Marines Killed During Australia Training Exercise

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Marines

Can being versed in gender and sexuality theory help you be a more effective Navy sailor? The U.S. Naval Academy appears to think it can, and is <a href="https://www.usna.edu/HRO/jobinfo/Tenure-track-English-GenderStudies-AY24.php">looking to hire</a> a specialist in Gender And Sexuality Studies to join its faculty for a tenure-track position.
The professor will teach a course that brings Naval cadets up to date on the topics &#8220;through a set of focused readings of theories, histories, perspectives, and/or major figures in LGBTQ, women&#8217;s and/or gender studies,&#8221; <a href="https://www.usna.edu/Academics/Majors-and-Courses/course-description/HE.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the course description on the Naval Academy&#8217;s website.
According to the description, readings for the elective course may include the authors Audre Lorde, Sarah Ahmed, Kimberle Crenshaw, and Gloria Anzaldua, who describes herself as a “Chicana dyke-feminist.&#8221; If these authors are a smattering of the Naval Academy&#8217;s curriculum for this course, the country&#8217;s next generation of sailors is in for a solid dose of woke academic theories.
Sarah Ahmed, a contemporary British-born feminist professor of Pakistani and English descent, focuses on the intersection between sexuality, race, and feminism. She is the author of &#8220;The Feminist Killjoy Handbook,&#8221; which <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sara-ahmed/the-feminist-killjoy-handbook/9781541603752/?lens=seal-press" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argues</a> that &#8220;killing joy can be a radical world-making project.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion’s sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so &#8216;woke&#8217;? If so, you might be a feminist killjoy — and this handbook is for you,&#8221; reads the book&#8217;s description.
Gloria Anzaldua, who, like Ahmed, was a lesbian, describes herself as a “Chicana dyke-feminist&#8221; as well as a &#8220;poet, writer, and cultural theorist.” She writes about her experience as a &#8220;Chicana&#8221; — a term used by some Mexican Americans to describe their Native Mexican ancestry — intersects with gender, race, and colonialism.
Although Anzaldua primarily identifies as a lesbian, she <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2Nelm_7frboC&amp;pg=PA80&amp;lpg=PA80&amp;dq=Gloria+Anzaldua%C2%A0sexual+fantasies+about+father-daughter,+sister-brother,+woman-dog,+woman-wolf,+woman-jaguar,+woman-tiger,+or+woman-panther.+It+was+usually+a+cat-+or+dog-type+animal&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=e4pB1u8hg3&amp;sig=ACfU3U22sAhw2i02tFAwGxxMqJAA6F8xKA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj7x9jy6OSAAxX6rokEHdYLBlIQ6AF6BAgkEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=Gloria%20Anzaldua%C2%A0sexual%20fantasies%20about%20father-daughter%2C%20sister-brother%2C%20woman-dog%2C%20woman-wolf%2C%20woman-jaguar%2C%20woman-tiger%2C%20or%20woman-panther.%20It%20was%20usually%20a%20cat-%20or%20dog-type%20animal&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> to having sexual fantasies involving a father and daughter, a sister and brother, and even a woman and a dog, wolf, jaguar, tiger, and panther.
Audre Lorde, yet another lesbian, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> herself as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” She was a professor and progressive activist who was influential in the civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements during the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s.
One of her poetry collections, &#8220;The Black Unicorn,&#8221; <a href="http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/News/Justice_Matters_50.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">draws on</a> African mythologies as the basis for exploring questions about gender, sexuality, racial identity, pride, and motherhood, according to the college.
Lorde and two other women writers <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded</a> an activist publishing company called Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, which was dedicated to promoting black feminist authors.
The last author on the Naval Academy&#8217;s Gender and Sexuality course list is Kimberle Crenshaw, a Critical Race Theory scholar and lawyer who teaches at both Columbia Law School and UCLA and is credited with coining the term &#8220;intersectionality,&#8221; which is widely used by progressives today to refer to a method of analyzing privilege and discrimination.
Crenshaw, who is black, was also part of the legal team representing Anita Hill at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas&#8217; Senate confirmation hearings in the 1990s. Hill accused Thomas of sexual harassment.
She first used the term in her essay &#8220;Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-discrimination Doctrine Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.&#8221;
In 2020, she insisted that intersectionality is not &#8220;identity politics on steroids&#8221; or &#8221; a mechanism to turn white men into the new pariahs.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other,&#8221; she <a href="https://time.com/5786710/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Time Magazine. &#8220;We tend to talk about race inequality as separate from inequality based on gender, class, sexuality or immigrant status.&#8221;
The Biden administration has promoted woke themes across the federal government for years.
Earlier this year, President Biden doubled down, <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-03779.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signing</a> yet another executive order requiring the federal government to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Over the last few years, that guidance has permeated the whole of government, including the military.
Earlier this summer, the administration <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-drag-show-02786741192dac64e566d41048a96ee5#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pumped</a> the brakes on drag shows at U.S. military bases after criticism from Republicans. Last year, the Navy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/navy-hires-active-duty-drag-queen-to-combat-sinking-recruitment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> an active-duty sailor and drag queen to be the face of the Navy’s campaign to fight plummeting recruitment. In 2021, the Army <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/army-releases-woke-cartoon-recruitment-ad-after-woke-cia-ads-mocked" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debuted</a> ads showing a cartoon lesbian wedding, just days after the CIA caught flack for a similarly woke recruitment ad campaign.
The Naval Academy defended the course in an emailed statement, saying the Academy &#8220;focuses on respect and inclusion of people of all backgrounds in order to develop well-rounded future leaders in the Navy and Marine Corps.&#8221;
&#8220;A vast array of intellectual ideas, approaches and theories are mentioned during classroom discussions,&#8221; the Academy told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The Naval Academy educates midshipmen to be critical thinkers who can analyze issues from multiple perspectives and contexts; our focus is on how to think, not what to think.&#8221;
Besides the Gender And Sexuality course, the Naval Academy&#8217;s English Department also offers a course on Latinx Studies, in which students will learn about &#8220;identity formation through many of its facets, including: class, race, gender, sexuality, and language.&#8221;
And of course, since the Navy <a href="https://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Student-Life/General-Information-for-Midshipmen.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pays</a> 100% of cadets&#8217; tuition, room, and board, you the taxpayer get to foot the bill for all of it.
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Three U.S. Marines were killed during a training exercise on a northern Australian island on Sunday after an American MV-22B Osprey aircraft carrying the troops crashed, wounding several others, according to officials. 
The tiltrotor aircraft was carrying 23 U.S. Marines when it crashed at roughly 9:30 a.m. local time on Melville Island, which is off the Northern Territory of mainland Australia in the Timor Sea. Twenty Marines were injured in the crash, and five in serious condition were flown to a town 50 miles away for treatment, according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-military-aircraft-crash-australia-e85fcd46cd3c85933d724a8cf4f253b3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press. 
“Marine Rotational Force &#8211; Darwin can confirm a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey crash on Melville Island, north of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, while transporting troops during a routine training exercise,” the Marine Rotational Force in Darwin (MRF-D) said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/MRFDarwin/status/1695703721081204844/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. 
At least one of the injured Marines underwent surgery at a hospital in Darwin, according to Natasha Fyles, the chief minister of Australia’s Northern Territory. Recovery efforts were still ongoing, and the cause of the crash was under investigation, according to the MRF-D press release, which was issued early Sunday. 
There was a “significant fire in the vicinity of the crash site,” according to an audio recording of an American official’s report to Australian air traffic controllers following the incident, the AP reported. 
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The Osprey aircraft that crashed was one of two that left the Australian town of Darwin for the Tiwi Islands – where Melville Island is located – roughly 50 miles away. The “routine training exercise” was in support of Exercise Predators Run, a multi-nation military exercise comprised of the United States, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and East Timor. 
“The initial reports suggest that the incident involves just U.S. defense force personnel,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “Our focus as a government and as the department of defense is very much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this difficult time.”
Roughly 2,500 people take part in Exercise Predators Run, including about 500 from the United States, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-military-aircraft-carrying-about-20-marines-crashes-over-australia-killing-3-injuring-others?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. The exercise, set to end on September 7 after 12 days, has reportedly been paused following the tragic incident. 
Though it’s unclear what caused the incident, this isn’t the first time the Osprey aircraft has been involved in a fatal crash. Since 2012, there have been five fatal crashes involving Marine Osprey aircraft, according to the AP. In June 2022, a mechanical failure related to the aircraft’s clutch caused the deaths of five Marines in California after the Osprey crashed, according to a crash investigation report. Three months before that, four Marines were <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/27/australia-crash-us-marines-killed-osprey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> in an Osprey crash during a NATO exercise in Norway.

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North Korean state media warned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military">U.S. Military</a> officials on Monday that &#8220;thermonuclear war&#8221; could break out after denouncing the U.S. and South Korea joint military drills test-firing strategic cruise missiles on the Korean Peninsula.
U.S. and South Korean militaries began their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield computer-simulated command post exercise, which Navy officials <a href="https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/3491680/the-republic-of-korea-and-united-states-announce-exercise-ulchi-freedom-shield/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> is designed to ensure the Alliance is ready to defend the Republic of Korea and promote security and stability in Northeast Asia. But North Korea has long viewed the drills as a potential war simulation.
&#8220;A thermo-nuclear war, the first ever in history, is more than likely on the Korean peninsula,&#8221; KCNA news agency <a href="http://www.vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/ien230822001/18/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The warning comes days after leaders of the U.S., South Korea, and Japan met at Camp David in Maryland last week to form their first stand-alone trilateral agreements dubbed the &#8220;Camp David Principles,&#8221; as threats from China and North Korea increase in the Pacific.
&#8220;The purpose of our trilateral security cooperation is and will remain to promote and enhance peace and stability throughout the region,&#8221; U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida <a href="https://apnews.com/article/camp-david-summit-biden-south-korea-japan-0bc36bb3705a3dc1b69dc8cd47b35dd3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said in a joint statement.
The allied nations consented to ramp up ballistic missile defenses to counter North Korea&#8217;s nuclear missile threat.
North Korean state media reported authorities said the summit between allied nations aimed at formulating a &#8220;nuclear war provocation.&#8221;
&#8220;If the agreements fabricated at the Camp David Resort are additionally put into practice in the war drill &#8230; the possibility of outbreak of a thermonuclear war on the Korean peninsula will become more realistic,&#8221; KCNA news agency said.
According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-kim-jong-un-cruise-missile-us-south-korea-drills-rcna100903" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC</a>, North Korea has conducted over 100 weapons tests, including nuclear-capable missiles designed to attack the U.S., South Korea, and Japan since the beginning of last year.
The state-run commentary also said the armed forces of North Korea &#8220;will wait for a chance&#8221; to &#8220;punish the hostile forces threatening the sovereignty of our state and our people&#8217;s right to live century after century is waiting for the moment of flush.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-says-camp-david-agreements-raise-possibility-thermonuclear-war-2023-08-21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>, the Japanese Coast Guard said North Korean officials plan to launch a satellite between Aug. 24 and Aug. 31 in the direction of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.
South Korean lawmakers reportedly said the North could protest the joint military drills and last week&#8217;s summit with the United States and Japan by showing force of military strength by test-firing an intercontinental ballistic missile.

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On Monday, the families of 13 service members who were murdered in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport in 2021 held a press conference. They called on the Biden administration to give them some answers and inform the public as to how their loved ones actually died in the terrorist attack.
Joe Biden committed the single most egregious act I’ve ever seen a president undertake: the cowardly, pusillanimous, and disgusting pullout from Afghanistan without any plan whatsoever. This caused the complete collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban, left millions of people behind, and abandoned hundreds to thousands of Americans left behind in enemy hands. Green card holders were not able to get out. Translators were left to be murdered. American soldiers were blown up at the airport because proper security was not actually guaranteed.
And Biden has never paid the political price for it.
The real story of Biden’s presidency is encapsulated in the arrogance, the egotism, the disgusting, selfish involvement of the president of the United States in presiding over the greatest foreign policy disaster of my lifetime, and then just blithely talking it away.
Biden is not a good person. He is the kind of person who ignores a four-year-old grandchild for four years, if he thinks it’s politically beneficial for him to do so. He is the kind of person whose entire career has been marked by lying about others. He’s the kind of person who slandered a man who was involved in a car crash in which his wife and one of his children were killed. He slandered that person as a drunk driver for years. That’s the kind of person that Joe Biden is.
It is disgusting that this person who was perceived as warm, generous, fuzzy and cuddly — the guy who nuzzled small children for no reason — was so cold and calculating that he really did not care what happened to the people who got left behind, including American soldiers. Biden is a person who cares first and foremost about himself. And that is perfectly obvious in the way he treated the Gold Star family members.
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That was certainly evident from the testimony of the Gold Star family members and wounded soldiers who were at the press conference. American service members were murdered in Kabul and the treatment of these Gold Star family members was egregious and disgusting.
Biden had talked to the wounded vets, and when he did, he spoke about his son Beau’s death — who had died of brain cancer. Biden tried to suggest that his son Beau’s death, which was tragic and terrible, was somehow the equivalent of people being blown up in combat.
For those who ever have to visit a house of mourning, the rule is: Shut up. You visit a house of mourning, you shut up and let them talk, because you don’t know how that person feels, even if you’ve gone through something similar.
But the media don’t care about Biden’s actions. They don’t care. The Gold Star family members are of no consequence to them. No one knows their names. No one gives them coverage. These are not people who you’re going to see on the nightly news. You’re not going to see interviews with those wounded soldiers.
This whole “caring grandpa” routine is a lie. He’s a corrupt politician. He has been for decades. He’s never held a real job outside of the federal government. And he went around telling people who just lost family members, young people who were blown up, that he knew how they felt because he had a son who died of cancer in circumstances entirely unrelated to his military service.
Gold Star father Darin Hoover said of Biden, “Do what our son did. Be a grown-ass man. Admit to your mistakes. Learn from them so that this doesn’t happen ever, ever again.”
People told Biden that the collapse in Afghanistan was going to happen. They all told him, but he didn’t care because he’s a stubborn ass, a fool, and a bad person. Across the country, thousands of people were being murdered by the Taliban, dragged out of their house, and killed. But he didn’t care about that. He said, “Don’t worry, we’re not going to leave our Afghan allies behind.”
Spoiler alert: We left tens of thousands of Afghan allies behind. He said we would do everything we could to provide safe evacuation for our Afghan allies — but he was a liar. We left all those people to be murdered. He said we would not leave Americans behind. This, too, was a lie. We left hundreds of Americans behind.
He said we made clear to the Taliban that any attack — any attack — on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport would be met with a swift and forceful response, that we were keeping a close watch on any potential terrorist threat at or around the airport.
No, we damned well didn’t. We have dead American service people to prove it.
A couple of days later, he went on national television and claimed the whole thing had been a wonderful success for his administration, saying, “The extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravery, and selfless courage of the United States military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals.”
That is who Joe Biden is. That’s what Americans should be focused on going into the election.
And that’s why these families will never see the light of day on national news. That’s why you won’t hear the names of the Gold Star family members outside of conservative media. The names of the soldiers should be household names, but they won’t be.
Never forget how this man sinned against the American people, against our Afghan allies, and against our soldiers and their families.
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Americans&#8217; confidence in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military</a> has fallen to the lowest level in decades, according to new polling data from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gallup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup</a>. 
Confidence in the U.S. military by Americans of all political affiliations <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/509189/confidence-military-lowest-two-decades.aspx#:~:text=The%20military,-Get%20the%20data&amp;text=It%20then%20surged%20after%20the,poorly%20executed%20exit%20from%20Afghanistan." target="_blank" rel="noopener">has fallen</a> to just 60%, tying the lowest number since 1997, Gallup found. The last time confidence was below 60% was in 1988, when just 58% had confidence in the military. The data was collected from June 1-22. 
&#8220;At 60%, confidence in the military was last this low in 1997, and it hasn’t been lower since 1988, when 58% were confident. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s — during the Cold War and amid threats to U.S. power, including the Iran hostage crisis — between 50% and 58% of Americans were confident in the military,&#8221; Gallup reported.
The fall in confidence in the military has been especially pronounced among Republicans, who have historically been the most likely to be supportive of the military. Republican confidence in the military has dropped by 23 points since 2020, when 91% expressed confidence in the military. 
While Gallup noted that Democrats’ confidence rose after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, it has since declined. The group with the lowest amount of confidence was independents, whose confidence level sits at just 55%. 
The drop in confidence came after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-house-republican-blasts-bidens-claims-about-afghanistan-devoid-of-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bungled withdrawal</a> from Afghanistan, where the U.S. had a military presence for over 20 years. Thirteen American service members were killed in a suicide bombing during the final days of the withdrawal as the Taliban quickly took power. 
Some have placed the decline in confidence on a politicized Department of Defense. 
“Americans&#8217; confidence in the U.S. military is the lowest in 2 decades! Our ‘leaders’ have tarnished the military’s history and legacy by putting woke indoctrination before patriotism &amp; foreign conflict before American interests,” <a href="https://twitter.com/amrenewctr/status/1686381037235150849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Center for Renewing America, a conservative policy organization. 
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The military has also been struggling with recruiting, with the Army missing its recruitment goals in fiscal year 2022 and <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/05/03/short-handed-army-to-miss-recruiting-goal-for-second-year-in-a-row/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcing</a> earlier this year that it would likely miss its goals again in fiscal year 2023 when it had hoped to recruit 452,000 soldiers. 
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said that they might have to “do some thinning out” across the Army because the military was losing service members faster than they were gaining them. 
“If we don’t turn our recruiting situation around, I can’t guarantee you that the Army won’t have to make some substantial potential force structure reductions,” Wormuth said.

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U.S. officials are aggressively searching for malware that they say hackers from China have implanted into American infrastructure to disrupt U.S. military operations in the event that the communist nation launches an attack on Taiwan.
Officials said that the malicious computer code, which penetrated U.S. systems well over a year ago but was only detected by Microsoft in May, was especially troubling because its purpose was not traditional spying, i.e., information gathering. Microsoft and the U.S. government both said the malware came from China.
The malware was hidden &#8220;deep inside the networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases in the United States and around the world,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/us/politics/china-malware-us-military-bases-taiwan.html">reported</a>. It infected systems that impact not only the U.S. military but also U.S. citizens and the economy.
Officials said that while the effort to destroy the malware has been underway for months, they still don&#8217;t know how widespread it is.
Officials say there were two possible goals when China infected utility infrastructure that &#8220;serve both civilian populations and nearby military bases,&#8221; the Times reported. The malware has not been detected in classified systems.
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One motivation could be to delay a U.S. response to an invasion of Taiwan, noting that a slowed response time of even a couple of days due to logistical issues could be the difference between China winning or losing. A second possible goal is to cause such chaos in the U.S. during their invasion that Americans would not care about what is happening in Taiwan.
Officials told the Times that the malware was &#8220;a ticking time bomb&#8221; and that it “raises the question of what, exactly, they are preparing for.”
Officials have reportedly exercised caution in determining how to remove the malware because any action from the U.S. could tip off China as to what the U.S. is able to detect and not able to detect. Doing so, the report said, could lead Chinese hackers to alter their cyberattacks targeting U.S. systems with more sophisticated software that could be harder to find.

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