Matt White is the Military Editor for Coffee or Die. He was a Pararescueman in the Air Force and the Alaska Air National Guard for eight years, and has over a decade of experience in daily and magazine journalism. He also teaches journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Know a story about any aspect of the US military that Coffee Or Die readers need to know? Email him.
Known as "Big Lou" in Raider Company of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Spc. Luis Herrera of Marion, North Carolina, was killed Thursday in a military vehicle accident during what the Army described as "routine military training" on Fort ...
A Fort Bragg soldier was killed and three others were injured in a military vehicle accident Thursday on post, according to a news release from the XVIII Airborne Corps. The cause of the accident is currently under investigation, the news release ...
A 20-year-old soldier assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord was killed in a training accident at Yakima Training Center in Washington on Monday. Pfc. Joseph Marquez, a native of Dover, Delaware, was killed in a vehicle accident on April 25 that ...
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, the first Air Force general ever to face a full court-martial trial, was found guilty Saturday of sexual assault against his sister-in-law in 2018. A military judge, who decided ...
A false internet rumor sent a slew of online detectives searching this week for some of the rarest, most secret — and sometimes just ugliest — abandoned Russian military planes on Google Maps. First, the false rumor: Early in the week, a story ...
Update, 5 p.m., April 21: In a press conference several hours after this story was published, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that some information on the Phoenix Ghost previously given to reporters by a senior defense official was not ...
A junior Navy EOD officer died during explosive ordnance training at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay on Wednesday, April 20. Lt. j.g. Aaron Fowler, 29, died while participating in a training evolution with Marines at the Hawaii base. ...
Ukraine's air force has returned 20 planes to duty in the last three weeks, a senior defense official at the Pentagon said Wednesday, April 20, thanks to a recent influx of spare parts. The official was quick to note that none of the 20 planes ...
Two Ohio National Guard soldiers were awarded the Purple Heart earlier this month, two years after they were injured in an Iranian missile strike against al-Asad air base in Iraq that officials spent months downplaying as "not very serious." The ...
Update, April 14, 4:20 p.m.: The Moskva sank in the Black Sea while being towed to its home port in a storm, Russian state media said. It was reported to be the largest Russian warship in the Black Sea. Original Story: The Pentagon confirmed ...
Reports in Russian state-run media appear to confirm social media chatter that a premier Russian warship, the Moskva, has been badly damaged — and is perhaps burning or even sinking — in the Black Sea. No details have been confirmed by the US ...
The US is sending over a dozen 155 mm howitzers and helicopters among thousands of weapons to Ukraine in the coming weeks as part of a new $800 million aid package approved by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, April 13. The list of weapons headed to ...
Four teams from the 75th Ranger Regiment posted a sweep of the top four places in the 38th annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Georgia. A fifth team representing the 75th came in sixth. The team of Joshua Corson and ...
A base jumper climbs onto a handrail and looks around. Almost 500 feet below is the Snake River, met on both sides by massive sheer cliffs that are stained dark brown by volcanic basalt rock. Behind the man, four lanes of highway ...
A Fort Bragg team defended its hometown title at the US Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition, which finished on Friday, March 25, while a team from the 1st French SAS beat every other American team in the contest to finish ...
Close to 50 of the best special operations marksmen in the world will fire around 30,000 rounds this week to answer one simple question: Who, in the Army, the US military, or around the world, is really the best shot? The US Army Special ...
The Marine Corps has identified the four Marines killed Friday in the crash of an MV-22 Osprey in Norway. They are: Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Capt. Ross A. Reynolds of Leominster, Massachusetts. Gunnery Sgt. ...
The US will send a massive arsenal to Ukraine in the next few weeks, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, March 16, including Stinger missiles and battlefield drones. Included in an $800 million assistance package are 800 Stinger ...
Several British news sources reported Friday, March 11, that Ukrainian forces had killed a third Russian general officer in the fighting in Ukraine. The Guardian and a reporter from The Times of London along with the BBC all reported that a ...
Update, 8:29 p.m.: Officials at the Pentagon rejected Poland's offer to hand over that nation's fleet of MiG-29s to Ukraine via a US air base in Germany. A Pentagon spokesperson said in a statement that Polish jets "departing from a U.S./NATO base in ...
The Ukrainian military says it has killed a second Russian one-star general inside of a week. A Ukrainian government website and social media posts claimed that the country's military killed Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, who was said to be the chief ...
The Russians are “stuck," low on food and out of fuel. Over their heads, their vaunted air force does not yet own the skies of Ukraine. Meanwhile, officials in Moscow admitted that nearly 500 Russian soldiers had died in the invasion's first six ...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine entered Day Four with news that seemed both promising and troubling. Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to attempt to escalate tensions beyond the battlefield and to NATO governments with a nuclear threat ...
A retired American infantry officer received a Facebook note from an old Ukrainian friend this weekend. The message included a surreal video clip of a Ukrainian soldier strolling casually down a war-torn street, surrounded by broken and burning ...
A Ukrainian woman's insult to a Russian soldier about "sunflower seeds" is quickly becoming a symbol of Ukraine's resolve in the face of a Russian invasion. Caught on a video shared on social media, an incensed Ukrainian woman tells a (frankly, ...
Ukrainian forces repulsed an airfield seizure attempt by elite Russian paratroopers attempting to retake a small airport 10 miles outside of the capital of Kyiv during the invasion’s opening hours. Multiple sources reported that the loss of ...
In the opening combat of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a Russian air assault force appears to have seized an airport on the outskirts of Kyiv, overcoming fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces, who may have downed some of the assault force's ...
Command Sgt. Maj. Alberto Delgado had been a soldier for 35 years, but what nearly made him lose his bearing recently was giving a speech to a field full of 600 brand-new basic training graduates — one of whom was his son. Delgado was the featured ...
An Air Force U-2 — the same type of plane that found hidden Russian missiles in Cuba 60 years ago — helped rescue a lost pilot who had made an emergency landing near a remote California mountain lake last week. A U-2 spy plane — among the oldest, ...
President Joe Biden ordered an additional 3,000 troops with the 82nd Airborne to deploy to Poland Friday, Feb. 11, while a senior White House official made clear in seperate remarks that an "onslaught" of Russian troops heading into Ukraine could be ...
