A new Department of Defense inspector general’s report revealed that the U.S. Army allowed recruits who did not meet qualifications to join. The “Management Advisory: Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory Course Places Trainees At Increased Risk of Adverse Health Effects” found that recruiters and leadership at the Army Training Center and Fort Jackson admitted recruits with body fat percentages that did not comply with the military branch’s physical fitness requirements and standards.

Feb 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, according to a Department of Defense statement, undoing a 2023 name change driven by racial justice protests. The base, among the world's largest military installations, had been renamed Fort Liberty as part of an effort to rechristen bases named for Confederate officers. The move to shed Confederate names for military bases came in the wake of nationwide protests after the 2020 death of George Floyd...

A Yale graduate student and U.S. army veteran was shot to death in what initially appeared to be a random act of violence, shortly after proposing to his girlfriend, and the lead detective on the case recently revealed how authorities nabbed the killer and discovered an eerie obsession. Kevin Jiang, a 26-year-old graduate student at Yale’s School of the Environment, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds outside his car in New Haven, Connecticut on Feb. 6, 2021. Jiang's death sparked a nationwide manhunt, until authorities arrested Qinxuan Pan, a...

US Army Identifies Female Black Hawk Pilot In DC Jet Crash Late Saturday, the US Army's Public Affairs office confirmed that 28-year-old Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach was the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a regional American Airlines passenger jet near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night. The crash claimed the lives of all 64 passengers and crew aboard the plane, as well as three individuals (including Lobach) in the helicopter. After Wednesday's mid-air crash - the deadliest in the US since Nov. 12, 2001 -...

Actual dialogue between the Reagan National Air Traffic Control (ATC)tower and the US Army Black Hawk Helicopter(PAT25): ATC: PAT25 traffic just south of the Woodrow Bridge[approximatley 5-6 miles from the airport], a CRJ, it’s 1200 feet setting up for runway 33. PAT25 has the traffic in sight. Request visual Separation. ATC: PAT25 do you have the CRJ in sight? then from ATC: PAT25 pass below the CRJ. PAT25 has the aircraft in sight. Request Visual Seperation (2nd request) These communications between the helicopter and the air traffic controller happened within...