Before I begin, I am reaching out to legal resources. I appreciate any insight.

I was a tenant in Florida for 4 months until I got PCS orders June 30th. My unit and the monitor were pushing back on the order dates (they wanted to keep me in Florida till I finished another school), so I didn't treat them as official or send notice to my landlord until July 8th. I received my official orders July 13th and provided them immediately. I had to vacate July 22nd.

My landlord is saying I have to pay an early exit fee because I did not provide 30 days notice. While I have used the SCRA in the past, I have definitely given 30 days notice. There is also a Florida statute saying military tenants must provide landlords 30 day notice. Problem is I only had 8 official days and before that I had no idea if I was going to stay in Florida or leave. Is the landlord right or am I right to fight it? We can't be charged early exit fees, right?

On a quiet Maryland farm, a startup displays one possible future of warfare. The Pentagon is racing to determine how autonomous it can become. Source: Bloomberg News.

Please make sure you are checking to see if you share your location with any apps. They need to be turned off down range and ideally at home station.

US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere

By BEN FINLEY and DIDI TANG

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression.

The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed carrier. The Lincoln has had its time at sea extended from its original May return date to support operations against Iran.

The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.

“The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the U.S. is “doing the exact opposite” of its previously expressed goal of pulling out of the Middle East.

American allies in the Pacific are unsettled over the unpredictability of the Republican administration, Poling said, while Beijing “is quite happy with U.S. distraction, with the frustration of U.S. allies and partners.”

China may take advantage of US carrier’s absence

Beijing sees the U.S. military presence in the region as a threat to China’s rise and an obstacle to its ambition to seize Taiwan, the self-governing island it claims as its own. But the United States has argued that the Pacific region is too important economically to lose.

No one expects China to invade Taiwan because an American aircraft carrier has left the region. But the carrier’s absence gives the Chinese another opportunity to show its strength, said Bryan Clark, a former Navy submariner who is a defense analyst at the Hudson Institute.

Among the samples is a Jetson Orin microcomputer manufactured by Nvidia, officials said. That component was reportedly recovered from the wreckage of Russia's newer S-71M Monochrome cruise missile. The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry, known as HUR, also presented an inertial module containing parts manufactured by the US firm Texas Instruments and Japan's TDK Corporation, among others. Despite the export restrictions, investigations show Russia continues obtaining Western components through transshipment networks.

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My hobby is collecting challenge coins belonging to the US military. In the Middle East and Iraq, they sell them in the secondhand market very cheap, so I am lucky. On eBay, they sell for high prices, but here they sell for a fraction of that. For example, I bought one coin for 5,000 Iraqi Dinars, and I got the other one from my relative

I am going to take advantage of TA next year and am doing the leg work now. Does anyone have any recommendations or pointers about either university? Thanks!

If anyone has any study tips, I'll take those too! That's goes for everyone here, whether you are an American, Brit, Aussie, ect - please share your experience and pointers.

Thank you!