All posts tagged "Armée"

ON BOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (AFP) - A deafening stream of fighter jets land and take off from a US aircraft carrier, part of a long-planned NATO exercise in the Mediterranean to show military might while Russia wages war in Ukraine. "I want us to be as ready as we can possibly be," US Rear Admiral Curt Renshaw, commander of the Carrier Strike Group Eight, told reporters this week on a visit on board USS Harry S. Truman.  "We look at the Russian capability and we look at our own capabilities and then we train to counter what they might do and to defend ourselves and to defend partners and ......

Washington (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry and US First Lady Jill Biden paid homage Monday to US veterans in a virtual ceremony for the Warrior Games, a sports competition for wounded US military veterans canceled this year over the coronavirus pandemic.  The Warrior Games "inspired me to create the Invictus Games," a similar multi-national sports event for wounded service members and veterans founded by Prince Harry and held for the first time in 2014 in London, said the Duke if Sussex. Prince Harry, a combat veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, first attended the US Department of Defe......