From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to Anthrax: How the US Postal Service Shaped a Nation
The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turned 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as postmaster general, the postal service predates the United States itself. It was launched nearly a year […]
A Man Is Halted Climbing the US-Mexico Border Wall. Under New Trump Rules, US Troops Sound the Alarm
NOGALES, Ariz. — Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community. The man lowers himself toward U.S. soil between coils of concertina wire. Shouts ring out, an alert is […]
Army Corps Redirects Radioactive Waste from Michigan to Texas
WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is sending lightly irradiated waste from upstate New York to Texas instead of Michigan after backlash from surrounding communities sparked a lawsuit against the landfill operator. The Army Corps said it began shipping 6,000 cubic yards of material from a Manhattan Project leftover waste site […]
Army's Head of Aviation, Who Faced Questions over Deadly Midair Collision, Has New Role
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s head of aviation has changed jobs to become chief of the branch’s enterprise marketing office, a move that comes before the National Transportation Safety Board holds hearings next week on January’s midair collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet that killed 67 people. Brig. Gen. Matthew Braman became […]
Man Who Killed Idaho Firefighters Had Been Turned Away by Army
The man accused of fatally shooting two Idaho firefighters before killing himself last month had tried to join the fire department, and became angry when told he would need to go through training and testing. Wess Roley also tried to join the Army twice — his father was an Army veteran — but was disqualified […]
Schumer Asks US Army to Award New York Hero with Medal of Honor
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The push to recognize U.S. Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, a Staten Island hero, with the nation’s highest military decoration has received another surge of momentum. Sen. Charles E. Schumer is renewing his push in suggesting Ollis receive the Medal of Honor. The effort comes a few weeks after the Richmond County […]
Post Office Arson Case for Pat Tillman’s Brother Suspended for Competency Exam
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Richard Tillman will not be prosecuted for allegations that he tried to destroy a post office with his flaming car — while livestreaming the entire saga — pending a competency exam after his court-appointed attorney raised doubt about his mental fitness. That prompted the 44-year-old defendant, clad in a yellow jumpsuit […]
Driscoll Wants to Move More Quickly on Army Agreement for Hawaii Live-Fire Training Lands
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii — The U.S. Army’s top civilian leader said Tuesday that he wants to move more quickly on an agreement that will allow the military to continue using the only large-scale live-fire training range for ground forces in Hawaii. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said he discussed the issue during a meeting with Hawaii […]
Pat Tillman’s Brother Used Grocery Store Starter Logs to Set Car, Post Office on Fire, Court Docs Say
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Richard Tillman, youngest brother of the late San Jose-raised NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, used “insta-logs” and lighter fluid bought from a grocery store to make his car into an incendiary device and set fire to a San Jose post office over the weekend, according to criminal charges filed […]
Texas' Fort Bliss Set to Host 5,000-Bed Immigrant Detention Camp
The Trump administration has awarded a $1.26 billion contract to build and operate a virtually unprecedented 5,000-bed immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso, Texas, a defense official confirmed to Military.com. The contract was issued to Acquisition Logistics Company, a relatively small Virginia-based firm with seemingly no notable experience managing […]