A Man Who Crashed a Snowmobile into a Parked Black Hawk Helicopter Is Suing the Government for $9.5M
BOSTON — Jeff Smith was whizzing along on a snowmobile one evening a few years back when something dark appeared in front of him. He hit his brakes but he couldn’t avoid clipping the rear tail of a Black Hawk helicopter parked on the trail. The March 2019 crash almost cost Smith his life and […]
Meet the First Black Woman to Lead a Disaster Response Task Force Based at Fort Eustis
Army Col. Tanya McGonegal was 25 when she experienced the first “only” in her military career. She was the sole woman in the June 1999 graduating class at Virginia State Officer Candidate School. The graduation set the tone for McGonegal’s 25-year career with the Army National Guard, where she continues paving the way for future […]
Black Knights Beat Midshipmen Yet Again in Annual Army-Navy Game Uniform Drip
The annual Army-Navy football game will soon be upon us, and the service academy teams have released the details of their special uniforms, worn in honor of a unique aspect of the institutions’ respective histories. Despite anything that happens on the gridiron, the Army Black Knights will show up dressed to kill, while the Navy […]
Army Identifies 5 Special Operations Soldiers Killed in Black Hawk Crash in Mediterranean Sea
The U.S. Army has released the names of the five soldiers who died Friday evening when their MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. The victims of the crash are Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer, 38, of Clarksville, Tennessee; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane M. Barnes, 34, of Sacramento, California; Staff […]
More Than 100 Years Later, Army Overturns Convictions of 110 Black Soldiers After 1917 Houston Riots
The Army overturned the convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged with mutiny, assault and murder after the 1917 “Houston Riot” — a deadly fray spurred by racial tension in Jim Crow Texas that saw more than 100 troops march from their camp into the city after police pistol-whipped and shot at a Black corporal. The […]
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 […]
‘Red Summer 1919’: A Vietnam Veteran Composed a Powerful Opera to Honor Black Veterans of World War I
When World War I ended and the troops returned home, the spirit of the war that bound Americans together quickly fell apart. Nowhere was this more apparent than among the Black communities throughout the country, which were subjected to racial violence on a whole new level. But in 1919, Black Americans fought back like never […]
A Black Medic Wounded on D-Day Will Be Honored for Treating Dozens of Troops Under Enemy Fire
WASHINGTON — An African American combat medic who was wounded while landing on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion but went on to tend to dozens of troops will be posthumously honored Wednesday in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. His family and supporters continue to push for an even higher recognition they believe his […]
Army Renames Louisiana Base for Black WWI Hero Who Received Medal of Honor
FORT JOHNSON, La. — A U.S. Army base in western Louisiana was renamed Tuesday to honor Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I who received the Medal of Honor nearly a century later. Fort Johnson had previously been named after a Confederate commander, Leonidas Polk. The renaming is part of the […]
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 […]