Tag: Army

James Harris Jackson, center, a white racist accused of fatally stabbing a 66-year-old stranger on a Manhattan street because he was black, appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, with his attorney Sanford Talkin, left, in New York.

Army veteran pleads guilty to murder for killing black man with sword in Times Square

Diana Stancy Correll · January 24, 2019 12:10 am

Chief Warrant Officer 3, Jason Potts supervises as a piece of casemate is raised from the Savannah River.

National Security

GOP lawmakers push to allow guns on US Army Corps of Engineers sites

Diana Stancy Correll · January 23, 2019 2:22 pm

In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, U.S. Army soldier Spc. Shaea Koyj, from New Jersey, burns a tub of excrement at an outpost in Zhari district, Kandahar province.

Magazine - Life & Arts

Camo and ashes in the desert

Trent Reedy · January 11, 2019 5:00 am

Patrick Shanahan, acting U.S. secretary of defense, right, listens while U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2018. TrumpÂ insisted the U.S. needs some kind of physical barrier along the frontier with Mexico, just a few hours before a meeting with congressional leaders aimed at breaking a stalemate over border wall funding thatâs kept parts of the federal government shut down for 12 days. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan may be acting, but don’t count him out

Jamie McIntyre · January 11, 2019 12:00 am

U.S. Army soldiers wear boots as they march in formation.

Army forms unique recruitment strategy for Generation Z

Brendan Pringle · January 10, 2019 5:44 pm

National Security

Official who answers to chief weapons buyer named Pentagon chief of staff

Diana Stancy Correll · January 8, 2019 10:59 pm

Soldier pleads guilty in plot to import $1M in cocaine from Colombia on US military plane

Anna Giaritelli · January 5, 2019 12:13 am

Members of the U.S. Military who return home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are not eligible to receive the Purple Heart traditionally given to all who are wounded in combat. A major step forward in treating PTSD would be to award those who suffer with it the Purple Heart.

WWII veteran dies weeks after receiving Purple Heart for 1944 injury

Diana Stancy Correll · January 4, 2019 4:37 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

Zulaikha and me

Trent Reedy · January 4, 2019 5:01 am

British Army actively recruiting ‘snowflakes,’ ‘me me me millennials’

Anna Giaritelli · January 4, 2019 3:00 am

This undated photo provided by the Indianapolis Police Department shows Peter Van Bawi Lian. Authorities say the 21-year-old soldier who flew from Colorado to Indiana and allegedly killed his wife, then fled to Thailand, is now wanted for military desertion.

Soldier who allegedly killed estranged wife escapes to Thailand

Diana Stancy Correll · January 3, 2019 10:03 pm

Retired U.S. Army General Stan McChrystal, chairman of Siemens Government Technologies Inc., arrives with his wife Annie McChrystal for the morning sessions during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Friday, July 14, 2017. The 34th annual Allen & Co. conference gathers many of America's wealthiest and most powerful people in media, technology, and sports.

Trump blasts McChrystal for ‘big, dumb mouth’ after retired general called him immoral

Josh Siegel · January 1, 2019 3:54 pm