The base was originally named Fort Benning for a Confederate general

It was renamed Fort Moore in 2023 for Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and his wife, Julia Moore
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Separately, defense officials say a C-17 US military cargo plane carried our a deportation flight Saturday from Fort Bliss, Texas

It made stops in Guatemala and then Honduras

Defense officials deferred to DHS for details on the number of deportees

Sunday's removal flight or flights from Gitmo were conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

ICE referred questions about the deportations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

DHS has yet to respond to queries from VOA about the removals

US intelligence and allied intel services warned back in 2024 that China was intensifying efforts to recruit current and former Western fighter pilots for training and to gain better insights into how Western air forces operate
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US Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa asking current or former servicemembers to contact the Air Force Office of Special Investigations if they know anyone who has been recruited to train foreign militaries

"You have a responsibility to protect our tactics, techniques and procedures" per Gen Hecker in statement

"Allies will seek to hold individuals accountable when they compromise the safety of our teammates by pursuing employment backed by our adversaries"

Per US Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa, the new German laws follow laws passed in Britain and Belgium, which call for include jail time -even life in prison- for servicemembers who give defense services or military intelligence to foreign militaries

"The Task Force’s mandate is to bring the full force of the federal government to bear in our effort to eradicate Anti-Semitism, particularly in schools" per DOJ's Terrell, calling the visits "just one of many steps this Administration is taking"

"No one should feel unsafe or unwelcome on campus because of their religion" per Task Force member and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Leo Terrell, in statement

Per DOJ, the universities were informed of the impending visits on Thursday due to "allegations that the schools may have failed to protect Jewish students and faculty members from unlawful discrimination, in potential violation of federal law"

"The US is committed to lasting stability in the region and the security of our regional partners" per the US defense official

If US makes good on talk it might pull its forces from Syria, "that will lead to chaos" per SDF Commander, Gen Mazloum Abdi

"There is already security vacuum" per Abdi, calling a continued US military presence "essential for the sake of preserving stability and security"

The SDF's Abdi also expressed concern about the state of the 26 prisons his forces oversee across NE Syria which have been holding about 10,000 captured ISIS fighters

"ISIS has taken advantage of the security gap with the change with the fall of Assad" per the SDF's Gen Abdi in response to a question from VOA

He said ISIS seized weapons caches left by the regime & has also started moving fighters out of their desert hideouts into the cities

Even if tensions between the SDF and Turkey end, the SDF commander warned ISIS is again rearing its head

"We see ISIS become more visible. We see them more active recently...showing more lethal capabilities" per Gen Abdi

Both Washington and Ankara label the PKK as a terrorist organization

The resulting tensions and fighting have, at times, put efforts to counter ISIS at risk
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The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been the main US ally for the fight against ISIS in NE Syria

But that relationship has long rankled Turkey, which says the SDF is led by fighters with the People's Protection Units (YPG) a Syrian-based offshoot of the PKK

"We do know that Turkey's concerned about their own security because of the PKK influence in the region" per Gen Abdi

W/peace, "That means there is no any reasons, and there is not any excuse to keep attacking these regions on the pretext of PKK"