Tag: Army

Captain Jason Amerine, 5th Special Forces Group, adresses the audience during a September 11th Commemorative Ceremony at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, southern Germany, on Tuesday Dec.11, 2001. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

National Security

Green Beret faced retaliation after talking to Congress about Bergdahl swap

Susan Crabtree · June 11, 2015 6:15 pm

Iraqi, U.S. and Spanish soldiers participate in a training mission outside Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

U.S. weighs more troop deployments, ‘lilypad’ bases in Iraq

Tara Copp · June 11, 2015 5:01 pm

Army veteran William Perry Wilcox's family worked to get him buried among other veterans at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, but his grave ended up misspelled not once, but twice. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Veteran’s family outraged over headstone misspellings

Emily Leayman · June 10, 2015 8:17 pm

WH: No time limits for U.S. troops in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 10, 2015 8:03 pm

National Security

Pentagon adds sexual orientation to employee protection rules

David Brown · June 9, 2015 6:13 pm

Army Secretary John M. McHugh updates members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 3, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Army secretary stepping down in November

David Brown · June 8, 2015 3:41 pm

National Security

Gold star vet’s dad confronts ‘war hawk’ Cotton: When do we hang up the mission accomplished banner?

Barbara Boland · June 6, 2015 6:30 pm

This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A U.S. official says Bergdahl, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years, will be court martialed on charges of desertion and avoiding military service. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, file)

National Security

Bergdahl seeks to remove general from his case

Tara Copp · June 5, 2015 9:10 pm

Col. Michael Midkiff, 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) and officer-in-charge of the 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) Logistics Advise and Assist Team from Fort Bragg, N.C., helps an Iraqi soldier unwrap an M16A2 rifle he received as part of the fielding of combat brigade sets supplied to Iraqi Security Forces in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve May 25, 2015, at Camp Taji, Iraq. (Capt. A. Sean Taylor, 310th A&A, CJTF-OIR Public Affairs)

National Security

U.S. delivers weapons directly to Iraqi forces for first time

Tara Copp · June 4, 2015 1:20 pm

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (right) and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry share one trait that sets them apart from the other candidates storming the early primary states: They have military experience. (AP Photos)

Presidential candidates with military experience are becoming a rarity

Ryan Lovelace · June 3, 2015 6:48 pm

The Veterans Accountability Act could be the start of much-needed reforms to the VA healthcare system.

Veterans’ views: Was Iraq worth the fight?

Jed Babbin · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. A one-year travel ban is expiring for five senior Taliban leaders held in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay until they were released last year in exchange for Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for nearly five years after he walked away from his Army post in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

National Security

Qatar extends travel ban for ‘Taliban 5’

Kelly Cohen · June 1, 2015 12:27 am