Tag: Army

Everyone Feared the Worst About Robert Card. No One Stopped Him.

Mourners attend a candlelight vigil in Lisbon Falls, Maine, for the victims of the mass shootings in nearby Lewiston.

Everyone who knew Robert Card was concerned about his behavior. His ex-wife and teenage son. His siblings, parents and friends. Fellow members of an Army Reserve unit in Saco, Maine. They knew he was having psychotic episodes and hearing voices. They knew he had been making threats and that those threats were getting more specific. […]

Tommy Tuberville Is Just the Face of a ‘Broken’ Confirmation Process, Critics Say

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., speaks to reporters in the Capitol building on Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON — Anger over Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of high-ranking military promotions may have hit a boiling point this week, as a handful of fellow Republicans began to publicly pressure the former football coach to spike his nine-month-long stunt. Calling the blockade a “national security suicide mission,” Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska spent hours on […]

Army Making a Mistake in Cuts to Special Operations Forces

U.S. Army Special Forces (USSF) raid a mock hostile compound under the cover of darkness

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Former Service Member Found Dead at Fort Meade Suspected of Killing Son in Their Odenton Apartment

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A retired service member found dead at Fort Meade on Wednesday morning is suspected of killing his 34-year-old son in their Odenton apartment, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Army officials from the fort released a bulletin Wednesday notifying the media of the on-site death, while the county department announced it was considering the deaths a murder-suicide. On […]

Former POW Jessica Lynch Shares Story of Perseverance Ahead of Veteran’s Day

Jessica Lynch, who shot to fame as a POW during the Iraq war in 2003

VALPARAISO — At just 19 years old, Jessica Lynch was nervous before her deployment to Iraq war but said she felt ready. Nothing could have readied her for what happened once she got there. Lynch was captured by Iraqi forces just three days after she was deployed in March 2003. Lynch, 40, was the first prisoner of war successfully rescued […]

Army Veteran Arrested After Threatening to Kill Soldiers at Fort Irwin in California

National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California

A former soldier has been arrested in California after he threatened to kill soldiers and law enforcement officials at Fort Irwin, located in San Bernardino County, according to federal authorities. “Christian Ernest Beyer, 41, of Petaluma, has been charged with interstate threats, a crime that carries a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal […]

Soldier Took 14-Year-Old He Messaged on Discord from Home Twice for Sex Acts, Feds Say

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A U.S. Army soldier traveled over a thousand miles to a 14-year-old girl in Maine and took her away from home — twice, federal prosecutors said. He’s accused of doing so to engage in sex acts with her. Christopher Meza was 20 and stationed at Fort Hood in Texas when he met the then-13-year-old on an online gaming platform and started messaging her over […]