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It all began with a routine medical check. Carson Thomas, a healthy and fit 20-year-old infantryman who had joined the Army after a brief stint in college, figured he should tell the medics about the pain in his groin he had been feeling lately. It was Feb. 12, 2012, and the senior medic looked him […]

Army Spc. Clayton James Horne died in Saudi Arabia on Aug. 17, making him the eighth non-combat fatality for Operation Inherent Resolve so far this year, defense officials have announced. Horne, 23, was assigned to the 351st Military Police Company, 160th Military Police Battalion, an Army Reserve unit based in Ocala, Florida, a Pentagon news […]

Top officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs declined to step in to try to exempt veterans and their families from a new immigration rule that would make it far easier to deny green cards to low-income immigrants, according to documents obtained by ProPublica under a Freedom of Information Act request. The Department of Defense, […]

The soldier who was arrested for taking an armored personnel carrier on a slow-speed police chase through Virginia has been found not guilty by reason of insanity on two charges, according to The Richmond-Times Dispatch. Joshua Phillip Yabut, 30, entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for unauthorized use of a motor […]

“Man you got the life,” my client said as he stared out at the river. He walked out to the bank and started to slap the water with his rod tip, while his fly line piled up three feet in front of him. “Stop your rod tip a bit higher on the forward cast,” I […]

The U.S. military conducted its first flight test of a conventional ground-launched cruise missile in a test that would have been banned prior to the recent collapse of a Cold War-era nuclear arms agreement. The missile was launched on Sunday from a testing site on San Nicolas Island in California. “The test missile exited its […]

In the aftermath of the ISIS suicide bombing at a wedding reception on in Afghanistan that left 63 people dead on Saturday night, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani marked the nation’s 100th independence celebration with a solemn vow to “eliminate” the terror group’s strongholds across the country. “We will take revenge for every civilian drop of […]

A career Fort Worth defense contractor who spent time in prison for lying to the government is in trouble again for similar conduct, which investigators say could have compromised troop safety and led to the disclosure of U.S. technology secrets to foreign governments. Ross Hyde, 63, has been charged in federal court with making false […]

The Blue Angels, the Navy’s flight demonstration squadron, perform in Seattle, Aug. 2, 2019, for the city’s Fleet Week. During Fleet Week, residents meet members of the sea services and learn about the latest maritime capabilities. This article was first published on The News Rep

Sesame Street is launching a new initiative geared toward military caregivers that’s designed to help children understand, cope with, and ask questions about their parent’s military service. On Monday, the happiest street in the world debuted Sesame Street for Military Families: Caregiving, which is aims at supporting military and veteran families as they care for […]