Two Colombians Get 35 and 30 Years After Pleading Guilty to Plot to Murder US Soldiers
Two Colombians on Thursday were sentenced in Miami federal court to 35 and 30 years in prison for conspiring to murder U.S. soldiers in a car-bombing attack at a military base near the Colombia- Venezuela border. Three U.S. Army members were injured in the 2021 assault. Andres Fernando Medina Rodriguez, a former Colombian military officer […]
Army Extends Some Unaccompanied Tours in South Korea to 2 Years
Some “single” soldiers who ship out to South Korea will now need to spend two years on the peninsula rather than one, the Army said in a recent force-wide message. The exception to policy, aimed at seven career fields, requires “single soldiers without dependents assigned to the Republic of Korea to serve the accompanied tour […]
Tim Walz, Who Spent Decades as an Enlisted Soldier, Brings Years of Work on Vets Issues to Dem Ticket
A retired Army National Guard noncommissioned officer who was once the top Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee could become the next vice president. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be her running mate. That puts someone with an enlisted background on both presidential […]
Illinois Town Had an Army Reserve Center for Nearly 60 Years. Now It's Being Sold.
The federal government is giving the former U.S. Army Reserve center in Belleville to the city after nearly 60 years of military use, and the city is selling it to St. Clair County for $250,000. In the past three weeks, both the City Council and County Board have voted to enter into an intergovernmental agreement […]
An Alaska Veteran Is Finally Getting His Benefits — 78 Years After the 103-Year-Old Was Discharged
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 103-year-old World War II veteran who’s been paying his medical bills out-of-pocket is finally getting his veterans benefits from the U.S. government after 78 years. Louis Gigliotti’s caretaker says the former U.S. Army medical technician has a card from the Veteran Administration but he never realized he could use his status […]
Former US Army Civilian Employee Sentenced to 15 Years for Stealing Nearly $109 Million
A Texas woman who was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development program for children of military families. Janet Yamanaka Mello, 57, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez in […]
Remains of Jewish D-Day Soldier Lost for 80 Years in Nazi Mass Grave Will Be Buried in Normandy
The case of Army 1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind was unique in the annals of the more than 73,000 U.S. service members still listed as missing in action from World War II, and the case had long gone cold. The case of Army 1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind was unique in the annals of the […]
US Soldier Convicted of Theft in Russia and Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years in Prison
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday convicted a visiting American soldier of stealing and making threats of murder, and it sentenced him to three years and nine months in prison. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, flew to the Pacific port city to see his girlfriend and was […]
What Ike Remembered When Returning to the Beaches of Normandy 20 Years After D-Day
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division tried to ease the concerns of Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had just given the go order for the D-Day landings after one last bout of wrangling with the allies. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, now […]
Army Will Present Purple Heart to Minnesota Veteran 73 Years After He Was Wounded in Korean War
ST. PAUL, Minn. — After 73 years and a long fight with the U.S. Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat was set to finally get his Purple Heart medal on Friday. The Army notified Earl Meyer, 96, of St. Peter, last month that it had granted him a Purple […]