Month: November 2019

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – A U.K. company that provides housing to U.S. military families came under official investigation earlier this year, after Reuters disclosed it had faked maintenance records to pocket performance bonuses at an Oklahoma Air Force base. At the time, Balfour Beatty Communities said it strove to correctly report its maintenance work. […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on ProPublica. It was 10 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2018, when the phone rang in Navy Cmdr. Bryce Benson’s home tucked into a wooded corner of Northern Virginia. Benson had just gotten into bed, and his chest tightened as he saw the number was from Japan. It was his […]

On Tuesday, Iranian Quds Forces launched, from Syrian territory, four missiles at targets in Israel. The Israelis’ reaction was swift. They retaliated early on Wednesday morning by attacking dozens of Syrian air defense and Iranian forces targets within Syria.  According to a statement by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Israel’s airstrikes targeted missile launchers, weapons […]

Two years after a pair of deadly collisions involving Navy ships killed 17 sailors and caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage, the Navy still can’t figure out whether its plan to improve ship-driving training has been effective. In fact, according to senior Navy officials quoted in a recent Government Accountability Office report on […]

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Chris Grove, a Special Tactics combat controller assigned as the 720th Special Tactics Group superintendent, leads family members, friends and teammates in Memorial Pushups following his Silver Star Medal presentation ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Nov. 15, 2019. Grove was awarded the nation’s third-highest medal against an armed enemy […]

The ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is, of course, big news worthy of a great deal of coverage. Depending on how the inquiry goes, Trump may well become the third president in history ever to be impeached, and although the chances of a Republican controlled Senate removing him from office are so small […]

I’ve written in the past about some of the absurd and funny things you see and experience as a Green Beret — this is another one that came to mind. I was in Boston recently and a family of tourists were driving by. As I was crossing the street they stopped to ask for directions. […]

Two U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday in a helicopter crash, military officials have announced. While the cause of the crash is under investigation, there are no preliminary indications that the helicopter was downed by enemy fire, according to a U.S. Forces Afghanistan news release. No further information about the crash was immediately […]

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin fulfilled the dreams of generations as they stepped out of the thin protective shell of their lunar lander and onto the alien surface of our moon. For the first time in history, mankind occupied not one, but two separate and distinct celestial bodies, making their […]