US has located rocket launch site in #Erbil  attack last night . One mobile launcher on a truck and one fixed launcher.

Fort Hood tells us active duty troops have stepped in to help at orders of commanding general to help with water distribution and storage in several towns and also providing large generators to keep water pumping.

10th Mountain Division Leader Responds to Dangerous Army Shoot House Video: 'I Will Fix It'

1/ Gen Hyten, vice chairman @thejointstaff  take unusual and interesting step of talking about "left of launch" ways to "defeat" enemy missiles at @CSIS  appearance. "Thinking about left of launch and talking about left of launch in an unclassified session is a little bit tricky"

2/ how to kill the missile before it launches? "You can think about a direct attack on that missile on the ground before it launches. But you can also think about denying the targeting system that that missile uses." (kill the targeting kills the attack.)

"We’re starting to look hard at Iran because Iran continues to build missiles in a significant way."

3/ "I would challenge anybody that lived through 2017 to look at that problem & not realize that that was a real possibility that Kim Jong-un and North Korea would actually use a ballistic missile, possibly with a nuclear warhead, in anger at the United States. "

1/Def Sec Lloyd Austin directly addresses hesitancy to get COVID vaccine. "Because of some things that have happened in the history, there’s a degree of mistrust, and I think we have to collectively work hard to dispel rumors and to provide facts to people"

2/Observing vaccine ops in Calif "I'm not a very emotional guy...one of our young soldiers here, a young sergeant, is from this neighborhood, ....he told me he administered the vaccine to his mother. That rocked me backwards.. and almost brought tears to my eyes."