Category: Military News

Military veterans from throughout Northeast Florida came together Saturday morning to honor comrades in arms who were prisoners of war or missing in action, and remember their sacrifice. A standing-room-only crowd that including former prisoners of war, as well as the families of those missing in action, and Gold Star families wept, hugged and prayed […]

On January 5, an assault force of al-Shabaab terrorists attacked a Kenyan military base and an adjacent airbase that housed American troops. The attack resulted in the deaths of three Americans and the destruction of two surveillance aircraft. If it weren’t for a small team of U.S. troops, however, the attack would have been much […]

After the plane landed, Pope Army Airfield was silent on Saturday. A chaplain prayed and a family member sobbed. Tarah McLaughlin’s fingers traced her husband’s flag-draped coffin before she pressed two fingers to her lips then pressed her fingers to the coffin. The remains of Staff Sgt. Ian McLaughlin, 29, of Newport News, Virginia, arrived […]

I don’t know why there is such an adversarial relationship between Special Forces and the MP community or when it started. No doubt it was from the earliest days of the O.S.S. when our earliest operators had to return to the flagpole and some guy couldn’t help but try to bust his chops over some […]

I don’t know why there is such an adversarial relationship between Special Forces and the MP community or when it started. No doubt it was from the earliest days of the O.S.S. when our earliest operators had to return to the flagpole and some guy couldn’t help but try to bust his chops over some […]

THE PENTAGON — The Department of Defense announced today that all the computers in the Pentagon had been upgraded to Windows 95, sources report. “The future of war is in the cyber realm,” Capt. Mark Holland told reporters. “Upgrading to an operating system a decade ahead of anything we’ve used before puts us on the […]

This is the second part of a series, you can read part one here. The Egyptian Air Force. That was the true menace. Soldiers and tanks, the royalists could manage. But against the enemy MiG 17 fighters and Ilyushin II-28 bombers they were helpless. So, the mercenaries’ first task seemed simple: recce Sanaa, the Yemeni […]

Learning to track on the modern battlefield is less ancient art form, more hard science. This article was first published on The News Rep

The military evacuated 11 soldiers from Al Assad Air Base in Iraq and treated them for concussion symptoms after the Iranians rocketed two Iraqi military bases earlier this month, which housed U.S. troops, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said late on Thursday. In the aftermath of the Iranian rocket attack, some of the injured […]

The U.S. Space Force has a name tape for uniforms now. Get excited people. In a tweet from its official account, the Space Force said its uniform name tapes have “touched down in the Pentagon,” sharing a photo of it on the chest of Gen. John W. Raymond, the newly-minted Chief of Space Operations for […]