US Soldier Gets 23 Years for Killing His Pregnant Wife with a Machete And Dumping Her in the Trash
WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii — A Hawaii-based U.S. Army soldier was sentenced Thursday to 23 years in prison for killing his wife and unborn child last summer and attempting to cover up the crime by dismembering and disposing of her body in the trash. Pfc. Dewayne Johnson II pleaded guilty earlier in the week to […]
The US Military Spent $6 Billion in the Past 3 Years to Recruit and Retain Troops
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what has been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls. The financial incentives to reenlist in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines increased dramatically from 2022 through last year, with the […]
4 Siblings Joined the Military. Almost 30 Years Later, Only 2 Remain
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Hotline Between Military and Air Traffic Controllers in Washington Hasn't Worked for over 3 Years
A hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn’t worked for more than three years may have contributed to another near miss shortly after the U.S. Army resumed flying helicopters in the area for the first time since January’s deadly midair collision between a passenger jet and a Black Hawk […]
City Hopes to Redevelop Fort Monroe into a Landmark. Years of Stagnation Has Slowed It.
At a historic site that’s been hampered by development setbacks for years, officials said ongoing projects will help Fort Monroe look completely different a year from now. Virginia took over the 565-acre former Army base in 2011 and planned to restore and convert it for private development. Those plans have since been nixed due to […]
The Oklahoma City Bombing Was 30 Years Ago. Some Survivors Worry America Didn’t Learn the Lesson
OKLAHOMA CITY — Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America’s heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain. From a mother who lost her first-born baby, a son who never got to know his father, and a young man so badly injured […]
Georgia WWII Veteran, 100 Years Old, to Receive French Legion of Honor
ATLANTA — Alan Kinder was touched last year when the strangers he encountered during his trip back to Normandy gratefully hugged and kissed him. He had returned to France with other World War II veterans so they could mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of Europe. Still buoyed by that warm reception, […]
80 Years After Dying, a South Carolina Soldier Will Be Laid to Rest at Fort Jackson National Cemetery
On March 14, almost 80 years to the day after his death at 19, U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arthur W. Crossland Jr. — simply Jr. to those who knew him, which is no one now — will be laid to rest at Fort Jackson National Cemetery with full military honors. The Columbia, South Carolina, […]
The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment
The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest the service is clawing its way out of a yearslong enlistment crisis. Nearly one-quarter of soldiers recruited since 2022 have failed to complete their initial contracts, according to internal Army data reviewed by Military.com. While the […]
New Netflix Documentary 'Surviving Black Hawk Down' Interviews Both Sides of the Battle of Mogadishu 32 Years Later
Every American war movie fan is probably familiar with the Battle of Mogadishu. It’s also known as the “Black Hawk Down” incident, borrowed from the title of an exhaustively researched book and its subsequent film adaptation. In October 1993, the United States sent a task force into the Somali capital to capture two lieutenants of […]