Fort Benning returns to old name — with a new namesake
FORT BENNING — The Army officially restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general. A ceremony to make the name change official...
Marine Corps relieves Air Station Beaufort commander of duties
The United States Marine Corps removed a commander from his position after deciding he was unfit to lead, according to the Marine Corps. Col. Mark D. Bortnem was relieved of his duties as commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort on April 14, and...
Families sue over ‘appalling’ conditions in Florida military housing
Dozens of families are suing Balfour Beatty Communities, alleging toxic living conditions and accusing the company of “shoddy maintenance practices and corporate indifference or ineptitude” at its privatized military housing community at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. Forty-four of the 56 families in the...
Experience WWI like never before in this upcoming virtual exhibit
The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, is getting a facelift. Since 2023, the Museum and Memorial “has been carrying out a multi-year upgrade plan, the most expansive changes to the buildings and grounds since opening in 2006,” according to its landing...
House vets chairman backs VA staffing cuts but promises oversight
House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost doesn’t know what the full impact of cutting tens of thousands of federal workers from Veterans Affairs payrolls will be, but he is confident it won’t cripple the department. “The amount of people who have been let go so...
Navy petty officer awarded for showdown with Somali pirates
It was hard to miss Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Ahmed El Haroun among the throngs of uniformed sailors shuttling between sessions at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference near Washington. Over his enlisted “cracker jack” dress blues, El Haroun wore an elaborately knotted white boatswain’s...
Florida officials investigating after shrimp boat washes ashore without crew
Florida beach-goers received an unlikely visitor after an unmanned vessel washed ashore last weekend. A 50-foot shrimp boat named “Miss Montie” ran aground on Beverly Beach, located approximately three miles north of Flagler Beach on Florida’s east coast, on Sunday evening, according to the Flagler...
Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools
The American Civil Liberties Union along with a group of military students and family members sued the Defense Department on Tuesday over book bans and curriculum changes instituted in recent weeks to comply with President Donald Trump’s efforts to root out diversity and equity programs...
Two troops killed, one seriously injured in vehicle accident at border
Two service members deployed to the U.S. southern border were killed and a third is in serious condition after a vehicle accident near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, the military announced late Tuesday. The region where the accident took place is just over the state line...
My book was purged from the Naval Academy for mistakenly being considered ‘DEI’
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