The Army Needs to Talk About its Problem with Leaders Taking Their Own Lives
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1st Woman to Take Top Enlisted Job at Army Special Ops
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina — The Army’s Special Operations Command will appoint its first female command sergeant major Monday, a service spokesperson confirmed to Military.com. Command Sgt. Maj. JoAnn Naumann — the current senior enlisted adviser for Special Operations-Korea — has been tapped to lead the organization, which historically has been dominated by men. Naumann’s […]
Murdered or Missing: The Army Stands Up a Cold Case Unit to Tackle Unsolved Crimes
The Army labeled Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales a deserter when he went missing in 2020. His remains were found a year later, buried in a grassy field near a grocery store outside of Fort Hood, Texas. When Pvt. Amanda Gonzales was 19 years old, pregnant and serving in Germany as an Army cook in 2001, she […]
Soldiers and Other Visitors to Army Bases Could See Heavy Traffic at Gates Amid ‘100% ID Checks’
Army personnel and other visitors to Army bases nationwide could see increased traffic while getting through the gates between now and mid-June as the service checks all incoming IDs in an effort to study security guard staffing requirements. A release from Redstone Arsenal in Alabama on Wednesday warned of the possibility of heightened traffic because […]
Texas Judge Denies New Trial for Army Sergeant Convicted of Killing Air Force Veteran During 2020 Protest
A Texas judge rejected a motion Wednesday to grant Army Sgt. Daniel Perry a new trial after he was found guilty last month of killing a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, Garrett Foster, during an Austin Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. The decision comes as the Army is in the process of pushing Perry out […]
US Army: Helicopters Crashed in Mountains, Fair Weather
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Two U.S. Army helicopters that crashed last week in Alaska, killing three soldiers, collided over a rugged, mountainous area, and there were no weather issues or visibility problems at the time, an Army spokesperson said Sunday. The two AH-64 Apache helicopters were returning to Fort Wainwright from an aerial gunnery range southeast […]
‘You Can’t Let These Bastards Go’: WWII Army Sgt. Ben Ferencz’s Life Finding Justice
In the spring of 1947, former Army sergeant and now Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz pleaded with his boss to add one more case to the docket before the International Military Tribunals set up to try Nazi war crimes shut down. Army Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, who had succeeded Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson as […]
Black Boxes Recovered from Alaska Army Helicopter Crash Site
JUNEAU, Alaska — U.S. military investigators have recovered flight data recorders from two Army helicopters that collided last week in a remote area of Alaska’s interior, killing three soldiers and injuring another, the Army said Wednesday. Two helicopters from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright collided about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east […]
For Soldier Killed in Alaska Crash, ‘Family Was Everything’
JUNEAU, Alaska — The mother of one of the three soldiers killed last week when two U.S. Army helicopters collided in a remote part of Alaska said her son loved his country and his family and lifted others up. “Family was everything to him,” Stacie Weaver told The Associated Press Monday of her son, Warrant […]
Army Expects to Miss Its Recruiting Goal Again This Year
The Army does not expect to hit its ambitious recruiting goal of 65,000 new soldiers this year as the pool of young Americans eligible to serve continues to shrink. “We are not going to make that goal,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told lawmakers at a congressional hearing Tuesday. “We are doing everything we can to […]