‘My Secret Informant Love’: Ex-Army Officer Leaked Russia-Ukraine War Secrets on Dating Site
A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian for the Air Force is heading to prison after he conspired to share classified information on a foreign online dating platform. According to the Associated Press, David Slater has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday. […]
Iraq War Veteran Sen. Joni Ernst Expected to Announce Next that She Won't Run for Reelection
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa’s first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next month she will not seek reelection, leaving another vacancy in an Iowa seat that could have ripple effects down the ballot as Democrats look to the state for pickup […]
Medal Returned to Family of Soldier Killed in World War I
ORWIGSBURG, Pa. — Call it a day of reunification. Members of the Morrison family were reunited Wednesday with Pvt. Joseph W. Morrison, an Army medic killed in action in France during World War I. Pvt. Morrison was KIA on Nov. 1, 1918 — 10 days before the end of World War I — and his […]
A Gulf War Veteran Convicted of Killing His Girlfriend and 3 Children Is Set for Execution
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Gulf War Army veteran convicted of the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three children has been scheduled for execution in Florida, the fourth death warrant signed this year by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Jeffrey Hutchinson, 59, is set to die by lethal injection May 1 at Florida State Prison […]
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II
When Melvin Kaminsky arrived in Europe with a field artillery unit, he thought he would be a radio operator. In need of combat engineers, though, the Army noticed the young private’s military operational specialty — the military service had trained him as an electrical engineer — saw the word “engineer” and immediately reassigned him. Instead […]
Army War College Is Editing Website to Obey Anti-DEI Order as Trump Reshapes Defense
The U.S. Army War College’s website, since at least Wednesday evening, has shown only one page: a notice about ongoing content removal under the Trump administration’s new guidelines to scrub mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion. Under Department of Defense instructions, the notice states vaguely, “certain posts have been removed, are in a process of […]
Trump's Move to Restore Old Army Base Names Highlights Nebraska Man's Heroics at 18 in World War I
For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump administration is set on restoring the familiar one — this time for a different Benning. The new namesake is Fred Benning, a […]
Former Fort Carson Iraq War Veteran Gives Up the Fight to Stay in the US
Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served two tours in Iraq during some of the most intense fighting but later served time for a felony conviction, has become a casualty of a different kind of war. At an immigration hearing Wednesday morning, he told Assistant Immigration Judge […]
Trump's Army Secretary Pick Avoids Culture War Issues in Senate Confirmation Hearing
President Donald Trump’s unconventional pick for Army secretary, Dan Driscoll, appeared poised for a smooth confirmation after a Senate hearing Thursday with little Democrat pushback. Driscoll’s hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee stayed far away from culture war issues, including so-called “diversity, equity and inclusion” battles that have defined the early days of Trump’s […]
Medals of Honor Awarded to 5 Soldiers from Korean War and 2 from Vietnam
President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority soldiers from the Korean War who may have been denied the nation’s highest decoration for valor by a 1950s Army that was still resisting orders to desegregate. Biden also upgraded the awards of the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest award for […]