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Ecuador couple certified as oldest married pair, nearly 215

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Julio Mora slipped away from his parents to secretly marry Waldramina Quinteros one February dayBy GONZALO SOLANO Associated PressAugust 28, 2020, 10:14 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleQUITO, Ecuador -- Julio Mora slipped away from his parents to secretly marry Waldramina Quinteros one February day. Both families disapproved.Seventy-nine years later, they're still together — he at 110 years of age, and she at 104, both lucid and both in good health, though relatives say they're a little depressed because they miss their big family get-togethers due to the pandemic.There are longer marriages, but at the moment no other between people so old, according to Guinness World Records — just short of a combined 215 years.Mora was born on March 10, 1910, and Quintero...

Japan's 1st amphibious assault force certified during exercise with U.S. Marines

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Feb. 14 (UPI) -- The Iron Fist 2019 multilateral training event concluded earlier this month, which included the certification of Japan's first amphibious assault force. The 14th installment of Iron First also marked the first time Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers brought their own amphibious assault vehicles, the U.S. Marine Corps said in a release this week. Iron Fist, held in Southern California, was one of two training exercises between the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force this month. The other, Forest Light 19.2, will conclude Friday in Japan's Aibano Maneuver Area and has included roughly 400 U.S. Marines based in Okinawa, the Marine Corps said in a separate release. "Separated by nearly 10,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean, these exercises are takin...

Rockwell Collins airborne radio certified by NSA

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Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The National Security Agency has certified Rockwell Collins AN/ARC-210 RT-2036(C) airborne radio for transmitting classified information up to Top Secret, the company has announced. "This NSA certification is one of the final steps in getting our latest-generation airborne radio technology into the field," Troy Brunk, vice president and general manager of communication, navigation and electronic warfare solutions for Rockwell Collins, said in a press release. "With data, images, voice and video being sent from the air to the ground in real time, warfighters will have critical information at their fingertips to gain a tactical advantage on the battlefield," Brunk said. The ARC-210 RT-2036(C) will be compatible with new communications networks like the Department of Defense...