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Speaker Mike Johnson awarded the families of the 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal with Congressional Gold Medals on Tuesday. The emotional ceremony took place under the stately U.S. Capitol Dome as a military quartet played solemn and respectful melodies to honor the sacrifice of the many young men and women killed. The families of the lost soldiers sat quietly as Republican and Democratic leaders eulogized the fallen and paid their respects. 'The families who have been left to pick up the pieces continue to deserve transparency, appreciation and recognition,' Johnson said opening the ceremony. 'Although we can never fully measure your lost, we can and we must memorialize the ultimate sacrifice that was paid.'

The West Point United States Military Academy has dropped the word 'Duty, Honor, Country' from its mission statement, after veterans' slammed 'profound theism' for the fading art of war. According to Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland, the term, which was introduced in 1998, will be replaced with the term 'Army Values.' The lieutenant general said that the new mission statement "binds the Army to the Army," but "Duty, Honor, Country" is central to the United States Military Academy's culture and "will always be our motto."

President Biden did not want a little acronym to stand in the way of his speech on Monday. Doesn't matter what we call it, but it is what it is,' Biden said, skipping over a Pacific Islands Infrastructure Initiative's shorthand.

Footage from inside the submarine, shot as part of a 2022 BBC documentary, shows an emotional group of passengers as they traveled 2.5 miles down into the ocean bed. The sub gliding over the ocean floor as it began its hunt for the ship's ruins in pitch black, with just a single beam of light from the Titan sub to guide them. After finding smatterings of rubble, the crew discovered a vibrantly coloured tile, offering a stark contrast to the deep ocean's bleak darkness and informing them that they were near the main ruins.

The pilot of the doomed Titan submersible lost control of the ship before it started spinning 360 degrees on a previous mission, and terrified passengers waited for assistance, but it has since emerged. During a mission last year when pilot Scott Griffith said "we have a problem," five passengers were 300 meters from the Titanic's wreckage - a word no one wants to hear at 12,500 feet below sea level. Footage from inside the Titan's thrusters, which was shot as part of a 2022 BBC documentary, shows an enthralled crew as he told them something was wrong with the Titan's thrusters. Because of the mechanical failure, the subordinate was spinning uncontrollably around in circles and unable to move forward and backwards. As the passengers endured an agonizing wait for assistance from the crew onboard the mothership, one passenger was seen with her head in her hands.

A crew member told Rush on camera that they'd noticed a troubling bang when the Titan was at the ocean's surface in 2022 in a BBC documentary shot in 2022. Rush tut tutted the fears, acknowledging that it was "not a soothing sound," but that "almost every deep-sea sub makes a noise at some point.' In the days and weeks that the disaster has risen, associates and employees' fears have regularly surfaced.