Armor crews fire new barricade-busting tank round
Soldiers with two tank crews from the 3rd Armored Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, recently tested the Army’s newest 120mm tactical round. The “Ivy Division” tank…
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How extremist groups target veterans, and what can be done about it
Over the past three decades, the number of veterans involved in extremist crimes has shot up 350%, according to data from the National Consortium for…
National Guard Bureau chief isolating after testing positive for COVID
The chief of the National Guard Bureau, Army Gen. Dan Hokanson, tested positive for COVID-19 this week, according to a brief Friday afternoon statement. “The…
Veteran jobless numbers stagnant, but experts say that’s no cause for concern
The veterans unemployment rate has remained stagnant for the past four months even as national rates have steadily dropped, but outside experts say they see…
‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies
Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorialized on the…
Oklahoma governor, AG sue Defense Department over vaccine requirement
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Republican governor and the state attorney general filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday, challenging the Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate…
In the annual football uniform dispute, 2021 Army trumps Navy
Every year, West Point’s Black Knights and the Naval Academy’s Midshipmen duke it out on the football field to fanfare mostly stemming from the rivialry…
Senate passes stopgap funding bill, avoiding shutdown
The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a…
WWII vet who survived COVID-19 honored on 105th birthday
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A World War II veteran from Alabama who survived COVID-19 last year will be honored on his 105th birthday Friday with the…
3rd military medical team sent to Michigan amid COVID surge
LANSING, Mich. — A third 22-member medical team from the U.S. military is being deployed to Michigan, where hospitals are grappling with record-high numbers of…