Ryan and Alena Knauss bought a home near Fort Bragg in Pinebluff, North Carolina, in late 2019. His grandfather, Wayne Knauss, told Coffee or Die Magazine last year that the young couple had quickly made it their own. “They fixed it up,” the ...
When the USS Connecticut struck an uncharted underwater hill at close to 30 miles per hour in October 2021, sailors were tossed around so violently that at least one suffered a concussion, and a sailor standing watch in the engine room reported a ...
Guardians are officially allowed to have one small neck tattoo each, longer mustaches, and more makeup under the new Space Force grooming and uniform policy. But neck tattoos are still verboten for airmen, even though both services fall under the ...
A mentally ill US Army veteran is going to prison after he confessed to firebombing a California family’s car and hurling Molotov cocktails into their home in 2018. On Monday, May 23, in San Diego, Senior US District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia ...
Eight army bases that are named after Confederate generals may soon be renamed for a diverse group of soldiers, while North Carolina's Fort Bragg may become Fort Liberty. The list released by the federal Naming Commission Monday of suggested name ...
As inflation soars to levels not seen in four decades, veterans are poised to get another cost-of-living increase in their benefits payments at the end of the year. Federal lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would provide ...
A base whose name is synonymous with five decades of Army airborne and special operations units — but also with a slave-trading Confederate general — may get a new name today. The federal Naming Commission was expected to announce a recommended new ...
The CIA added two new stars to the agency's Memorial Wall during a ceremony Monday, May 23, at its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, indicating that two of its undercover officers have died in the line of duty during the past year. Of the 139 ...
Around 20 nations will soon send weapons to Ukraine, including anti-ship missiles, helicopters, and artillery, as the Russian invasion nears its fourth month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Monday, May 23. Perhaps most notably, ...
At almost every US embassy around the world, a US Marine Security Guard is the first face a visitor sees — a sight that often intrigues foreign visitors and reassures the American diplomats who work there. “In my experience, people feel more ...
Update, noon, Sunday, May 22: Amid a national baby formula shortage, an Air Force C-17 flew a shipment of European-made formula to the US as the first sortie in Operation Fly Formula, landing Sunday, May 22 in Indiana. Speaking Saturday, White House ...
This article was originally published on Military.com May 19, 2022. Follow Military.com on Twitter. A Louisiana Army National Guard officer retired in March with benefits after being convicted of assault and conduct unbecoming an officer for ...
Two paratroopers from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson died May 13, 2022, in a multi-car crash that also injured two other soldiers, according to US Army Alaska officials. Officials identified the deceased soldiers Tuesday afternoon in a press ...
Tuesday morning, May 17, lawmakers attended the first congressional hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, in more than 50 years in the veterans’ affairs hearing room on Capitol Hill. During the publicly broadcast session, Undersecretary ...
"In space, no one can see your neck." Such is how one Facebook commenter summed up a puzzling recruiting memo from the Department of the Air Force dated May 13. The memo was shared on the popular Facebook page Air Force amn/nco/snco and outlines ...
Ambushed on a secret 2017 night raid, an Air Force pararescueman dragged a grievously injured teammate down a mountain and, realizing the man had suffered facial trauma severe enough to close his airway, sliced his teammate’s neck open to allow him ...
Several hundred special operations forces are set to redeploy to Somalia under an order signed by President Joe Biden. The move reverses former President Donald Trump's order to withdraw almost all 700 ground troops from the country by January ...
MOSHCHUN, Ukraine — The destruction is offensive. It violates your vision. You try to look away and find some safe place to rest your eyes. But there is none. No building left untouched. Some with only a wall or two caved in from the explosions; ...
Capt. Taylor Bye had two options when the canopy of her A-10C Thunderbolt II was ripped off during a routine sortie and the landing gear refused to deploy: eject or attempt a belly landing. Bye stayed calm and pulled off a wheels-up landing, saving ...
Army officials have identified the paratrooper killed in a bear attack Tuesday, May 10, at Alaska's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Seth Michael Plant. Plant was an infantryman with the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute ...
A federal lawsuit alleges that the secretary of the Air Force ordered junior personnel out of a conference room last October in order to tell the service's senior leaders — including many of the top generals in the Air Force and Space Force — that ...
Two soldiers scouting for possible training locations may have surprised a mother brown bear and her two cubs in their den, prompting the attack that left one soldier dead and another injured at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, according to ...
The Navy has identified the Naval Special Warfare sailor who died following a training incident at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia. Electronics Technician 1st Class Ryan DeKorte, 35, died Monday, May 9, several days ...
This article was originally published May 10, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. A junior Navy Reserve officer and Senate staffer has gotten congressional accolades and a military honor for her role in a low-profile rescue ...
A Naval Special Warfare sailor died Monday, May 9, from injuries sustained several days earlier during training at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia. The sailor, whose name is being withheld from the public for 24 hours ...
Shootings are now the leading cause of death for children and teenagers, prompting the military to implement a new policy aimed at troops who own gun safes. By making it easier to ship gun safes between assignments, officials hope service members’ ...
A bear attack killed a Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson soldier Tuesday, May 10, during training near Anchorage, Alaska. The soldier was part of a small group training in a wooded area on base near the Anchorage Regional Landfill, according to JBER ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The crowd gathered in front of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery and spoke in whispers. Many of their hands held evenly numbered bundles of fresh flowers. That’s the tradition here: an even number of flowers for a ...
Some Russian troops have been refusing orders to fight, US officials said Monday, May 9, contributing to “incremental and anemic” advances in the highly contested Donbas region of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a senior defense official confirmed that Ukrainian ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — US Army Command Sgt. Maj. Joe Powers is on a mission. And so is Sgt. 1st Class Adam Klakowicz, two of the nine members of Raid Team 1. It’s April 23 in the warming hours of a hot Saturday morning on ...
