5 US Service Members Sue Federal Government over Fuel Contamination from Red Hill Spill in Hawaii
Five active-duty military personnel, including an Army colonel, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the federal government over their exposure to jet fuel in the drinking water of their on-base homes in Hawaii in 2021. The group is suing for damages over illnesses they say they endured after drinking and bathing in the water, which was […]
Korean War Veteran, 96, Still Attempting to Get Purple Heart Medal After 7 Decades
ST. PETER, Minn. — Earl Meyer remembers in vivid detail when his platoon came under heavy fire during the Korean War — he still has shrapnel embedded in his thigh. But over 70 years later, the 96-year-old is still waiting for the U.S. Army to recognize his injury and to award him a Purple Heart […]
Medic in Black D-Day Unit, Long Denied the Medal of Honor, Gets Wide Backing for Nation’s Highest Military Honor
They haven’t waited in Normandy, or in smalltown Virginia, or at First Army Headquarters in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, to honor the D-Day heroism of then-Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a combat medic with an all-Black unit who is under consideration for the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor. The visitor center at the […]
Army Should Focus More Recruiting Effort on TV Outreach Rather than Bonuses, New Study Says
Six hundred new enlistees and current soldiers were sworn into the Army during a televised NFL game Sunday with some 69,000 people in stands, given the oath of enlistment by Gen. Randy George, the service’s top officer. The Army band performed the national anthem, Rangers rappelled from the stadium’s rafters, and the 82nd Airborne Division […]
Pulling Close-Air Support Airmen from Army Bases Would Increase Risk on the Battlefield, Republicans in Congress Say
An Air Force plan to relocate squadrons of elite close-air support airmen on Army bases, consolidating from eight locations down to just two, is alarming GOP lawmakers, who claim the move will harm military readiness and are pressing the service for more details. Tactical Air Control Party airmen are part of a special warfare job […]
Former Green Beret Heals to Remember with Others on Veterans Day
Seriously wounded, Bryant Schroeder prayed as he and fellow Green Berets took cover near their downed helicopter and awaited rescue deep inside Cambodia. The U.S. Special Forces medic survived for about nine hours on the ground before he was flown out of harm’s way and hospitalized for his combat injury, one that would merit him […]
Military Barracks Are Falling Apart. Senators in Big Military States Want to Know the Price Tag to Fix Them.
A bipartisan group of senators representing states with significant military footprints is pressing the Pentagon for an update on junior enlisted barracks and how much money is actually needed for renovations and construction. The six lawmakers from Georgia, Texas, Florida and North Carolina are pointing to media reports and a damning Government Accountability Office report […]
‘A Profound Debacle’: 5 Decades After US Defeat in Vietnam, Divisions Opened by War Are, if Anything, Even Wider
It’s been a half-century since the United States of America, until then undefeated in modern warfare, took its first “L.” The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 allowed then-President Richard Nixon to complete the drawdown of U.S. troops from Vietnam, ending the so-called “police action” that transmogrified into a quagmire that cost 58,220 […]
Army Soldiers Wrestle with Jungle Challenges in the Pacific
Members of the Schofield Barracks-based 25th Infantry Division are training across the Hawaiian Islands and in the island nation of Palau this month as the Army continues to adjust its operations for the Pacific. On Wednesday, soldiers from the division kicked off the 2023 rotation for the Hawaii portion of the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness […]
Inside the Army’s Mad Dash for Recruiters After Graduating Only Half the Number Needed
The Army is rushing to push noncommissioned officers into its recruiting school after graduating only half the number of recruiters this year that the classes are capable of producing, according to service data reviewed by Military.com. The eight-week Army Recruiter Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky, can train a maximum of 2,866 students across a total […]