Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech

President Trump delivers a speech at Fort Bragg

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s rally-style appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Army officials raised alarms over a vendor planning to sell Trump-branded merchandise on site. They feared selling the merchandise could undermine the military’s carefully maintained image of political neutrality, according to two officials familiar with the internal pushback. But on Tuesday, […]

A Problem-Solving Shop Fosters ‘Culture of Innovation’ at Fort Stewart

U.S. Army Spc. Spencer Gasaway builds a custom hub cap specialty tool at Marne Innovation Center on Fort Stewart

FORT STEWART — Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Lopez enlisted in the U.S. Army as a wide-eyed 17-year-old straight out of high school. An infantryman for nearly half his life now, he’s comfortable with a top-down command structure where officers tell him what to do and how to do it. Even so, Lopez acknowledges the flaws in the “Army way.” Soldiers […]