Category: Military News

During one rainy afternoon in March, the cloud cover had blocked out the Massachusetts sky enough that, to my memory, it could easily have been the middle of the night.  Freezing rain fell as it tends to in New England, so the turnout at the funeral was small.  As we stood there, on either end […]

This Memorial Day weekend, visitors to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. were able to view the Poppy Wall of Honor for the second year. The temporary, 133 foot long display of over 645,000 poppy flowers — one for every American service member killed since World War I — was visited by more than 15,000 […]

On Saturday, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point graduated the most diverse class in the academy’s history. Of the 980 cadets who are commissioning into the U.S. Army as second lieutenants, there was the highest number of African American women, Hispanic women, and highest number of women overall since the first class of women […]

WASHINGTON—Every year, millions of Americans gather on the last Monday in May to drink, barbecue, socialize, and remember the fallen. But we all have that one friend who we know would be an unwelcome addition to the party. Nobody wants to invite him, but his potato salad is just so good that we have to. […]

An active private military contractor with connections to the U.S. Marine Corps (his name has been withheld to protect his identity) has revealed to NEWSREP that the Marines are rolling out a new round of updates for their infantry. The Corps’ self-identity as amphibious shock troops, long institutional memory of hard fights with capable peers, […]

PORTLAND — They are “the honored dead” for this special day each year, on Memorial Day. But for the rest of the year, America’s war dead of the 20th century can be far removed from the nation’s awareness. The final resting places of some 124,000-plus U.S. servicemen are at far-away hallowed grounds not always known […]

NEWPORT — The explosion and sinking of the ship in 1943 claimed at least 1,138 lives, and while the sea swallowed the bones there were people, too, who also worked to shroud the bodies. The sinking of the H.M.T. Rohna was the greatest loss of life at sea by enemy action in the history of […]

Marines and Sailors with Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command begin giving a simulated casualty medical treatment during an Advanced Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Medical (CBRN) Course at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, December 13, 2018. The Marines and Sailors participated in the course to enhance critical individual and collective CBRN skills in the face […]

Editor’s note: this story originally appeared in 2018 How you die matters. Ten years ago, on Memorial Day, I was in Fallujah, serving a year-long tour on the staff and conducting vehicle patrols between Abu Ghraib and Ramadi. That day I attended a memorial service in the field. It was just one of many held […]

Arnold Zuniga walked quickly, quietly, to the wall of the fallen and dragged his finger across the name of the childhood friend who never came back. Fox, Thomas J. Jr., USA. Zuniga is 69, 70 at year’s end. Sacramento-born and raised in a neighborhood downtown, he attended Christian Brothers High School, then Sacramento City College, […]