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I’m excited to share that I am joining the national security team at @WSJ where I return to reporting on the intersection of business and national security. Send your tips and pitches, or just say hello: [email protected]
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Marcus Weisgerber
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Marcus Weisgerber
@MarcusReports
National Security Reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Dad, Husband, Golden Retriever enthusiast, #AvGeek, New Yorker. RT ≠ Endorsement
Washington, DC
Joined January 2011
- JUST IN: "The Crew made the decision to go" — Inside RCH 871, which saved 640 from the Taliban ... from @TaraCopp and me defenseone.com/policy/2021/08…
- BREAKING: Vice President Mike Pence announces that uniformed members of the U.S. Space Force will be called Guardians. Threre you have it: Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Guardians
- BREAKING: Boeing CEO David Calhoun says company executives should not have agreed to former President Trump’s terms for the new Air Force One. The company today announced it lost $660M building the two planes
- The military jets using the call sign “FRANK” is significant. Frank Luke Jr. was an American fighter ace in World War I better known as the “Arizona Balloon Buster.” He is credited with shooting down 14 German surveillance balloons
- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis talked to reporters at the Pentagon this afternoon. Asked his biggest military concern in 2018, he responded: “I don’t have concerns. I create them”
- "Putin’s war is not the result of NATO expansion. It is the cause of NATO expansion," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said during an address at the Reagan National Defense Forum #RNDF2022
- BREAKING: The US Air Force will roll out its new B-21 stealth bomber the “first week of December,” Andrew Hunter, the head of USAF acquisition says #asc22
- BREAKING: The Pentagon says defense contractors in Texas must get COVID-19 vaccine despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott banning a vaccine mandate in the state. “These requirements are promulgated pursuant to Federal law and supersede any contrary State or local law or ordinance"
- BREAKING: Ukrainian forces who sunk a Russian warship with Harpoon missiles in June trained in the United States, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer Bill LaPlante says
- Replying to @MarcusReports“Air Force One I'm just going to call a very unique moment, a very unique negotiation, a very unique set of risks that Boeing probably shouldn't have taken, but we are where we are, and we're going to deliver great airplanes,” Calhoun said on the company’s quarterly earnings call
- JUST IN: The U.S. Air Force says it successfully fired a hypersonic weapon. A B-52 bomber launched the Lockheed Martin-made Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon. The ARRW missile flew at more than five-times the speed of sound
