Tag: Army

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

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal speaks during a forum called "Ask What You Can Do For America's Veterans" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

National Security

Ex-Afghanistan general: Taliban five ‘presumably’ will return to fight

Kelly Cohen · May 31, 2015 3:54 pm

Dugway Proving Ground military base, about 85 miles southwest Salt Lake City, Utah. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Suspect anthrax samples turn up in Australia

Robert King · May 29, 2015 3:44 pm

Third U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Pfc. Benjamin Feldbush of Stafford County, Va., places a flag in front of a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 21, 2015. "Flags In" is an annual tradition that is reserved for The Old Guard since its designation as the Army's official ceremonial unit in 1948. They conduct the mission annually at Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery prior to Memorial Day to honor our nation's fallen military heroes. (AP Photo)

National Security

Remembrance

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

Peter Corlett's 'Cobbers' sculpture is displayed at V.C. Corner Australian Memorial on March 26, 2014 in Fromelles, France. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

The Great War, the forgotten war

Crocker Iii · May 25, 2015 9:00 am