Here’s your SOFREP Evening Brief for Friday, August 8, 2025. Six Fort Stewart soldiers are honored for stopping an active shooter, NASA bids farewell to veteran astronaut Butch Wilmore, and VP JD Vance meets UK’s David Lammy on Gaza, Ukraine, and trade. An Israeli strike kills a senior PFLP official in Lebanon, Syrian minorities push for a decentralized state, and the UN warns Afghan refugee reintegration is key to peace. Germany halts arms exports to Israel, Ukraine braces as Trump’s deadline to Putin passes, and Pakistani forces kill 33 militants in Balochistan.

—Six Fort Stewart Soldiers Honored for Heroism in Active-Shooter Incident

US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll awarded the Meritorious Service Medal to six soldiers at Fort Stewart, Georgia, for their actions during Wednesday’

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