Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado warned this week that Venezuela has become the only nation in the Western Hemisphere capable of producing Iranian combat drones. Speaking from hiding due to threats of arrest by the Maduro regime, Machado exposed the growing military ties between Venezuela and Iran, warning that this alliance represents a strategic threat to regional and U.S. security.
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina, is one of five U.S. military installations currently being assessed for the Air Force’s new Deployable Combat Wings model. If selected, the base could gain approximately 200 additional airmen and their families, enhancing its role in national defense.