LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — A military appeal hearing was set Thursday for a U.S. soldier sentenced to death for killing two fellow service members and wounding 14 others in a grenade attack in Kuwait nearly 10 years ago. The hearing…
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Update: Searchers Seek Missing F-15C Pilot
Update: (8/29/2014) National Guard Bureau News Release BARNES AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass., Aug. 28, 2014 – The search in Virginia for a missing 104th Fighter Wing pilot expanded today with Air Force resources. An F-15C Eagle aircraft assigned to…
Marine, war veteran beaten in possible hate crime
BY DAVID BOROFF, New York Daily News A 32-year-old Marine was beaten by a group of men outside of a Mississippi restaurant after he was warned it wasn’t safe for white people in the wake of the Michael Brown killing…
New Army/Marine helmet less protective
A recent research paper by the Navy has raised concerns over the new design for an advanced Army and Marine helmet. According to the Army Times, it showed that blast waves could bounce off the added components such as the…
Spec Ops and SAS forming hunter/killer unit to “smash Islamic State”
The British Special Air Services (SAS) and the U.S. Special Forces troops have come together to form a hunter killer unit named the Task Force Black. Its main objective is to “smash the Islamic State” and “cut the head off…
Army designs new lightweight vehicles to replace tanks
For the past 100 years of mechanized warfare, protection for ground-based armored fighting vehicles and their occupants has boiled down almost exclusively to a simple equation: More armor equals more protection. Weapons’ ability to penetrate armor, however, has advanced faster…
