The retired officer, Gary Volesky, responded to a tweet Jill Biden sent about abortion. “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,” he wrote.
Author: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY
Pentagon to deploy 3,000 troops to Europe as tensions spike with Russia over Ukraine
The Pentagon will send 3,000 troops to Germany, Romania and Poland this week. President Joe Biden had put 8,500 troops on heightened alert last week.
The military has vowed to curb sexual assault for decades to no avail. Now, Congress is stepping in.
Sexual assault survivors win: “Provisions included in this year’s NDAA are the most transformative military justice reforms in our nation’s history.”
Tuskegee Airmen honored on Veterans Day even as military lacks officer diversity
The Army’s top officer for personnel will salute the Tuskegee Airmen on Veterans Day as he pushes for greater diversity in the military’s upper ranks.
Confederate names are being scrubbed from US military bases. The list to of ideas to replace them is 30,000 deep.
Code Talkers, Medal of Honor recipient could replace Fort Hood, Fort Bragg and other bases named for Confederate officers who betrayed their oaths.
As more and more troops die by suicide, the hardest question remains: Why?
Nowhere is the Pentagon’s suicide crisis more acute than among active-duty Army soldiers. Young, enlisted men remain at higher risk.
Suicide spikes 15% among US troops in 2020 from the previous year
In 2020, 580 troops died by suicide compared with 504 in 2019, according to figures confirmed Wednesday night by congressional and Pentagon sources.
Pentagon admits Kabul drone strike was ‘tragic mistake’ after killing 10 civilians, no terrorists
The Aug. 29 strike near the airport during the U.S. exit from Afghanistan killed ten civilians, including up to seven children, the Pentagon said.
What happened to US military equipment left behind in Afghanistan?
The U.S. military likely abandoned tens of millions of dollars’ worth of aircraft, armored vehicles and high-tech defensive systems in Afghanistan.
US likely to continue strikes against ISIS-K, even as challenges mount after Afghanistan exit
After the US completes its exit from Afghanistan by Aug. 31, intelligence leads will lessen and missions will have to be conducted from farther away.