Aug. 17–WARRENSBURG — The nine-member Golden Knights’ Black Demonstration Team lost a member, Sgt. First Class Corey Hood, Cincinnati, Ohio, in a skydiving mishap at the Chicago Air and Water Show on Sunday. Reports state Hood collided with a Navy…
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44 U.S. Soldiers Struck by Lightning in Ranger School, Hospitalized
A series of lightning strikes injured 17 U.S. Army Ranger School students and two instructors on Wednesday while they were training at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle. Nine students and two instructors were reportedly still hospitalized Thursday…
Soldier shot dead outside of his Tennessee home, manhunt underway
A search is underway for the suspects who gunned down a Ft. Campbell soldier right in front of his house early Sunday morning. Police in Montgomery County, Tennessee have very few leads in this case and are asking for the…
U.S. Army helicopter crashes on Navy ship in Japan
TOKYO — A U.S. Army helicopter crashed while landing on a Navy ship Wednesday off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, injuring seven people and damaging the aircraft, officials said. The H-60 helicopter made a hard landing on the USNS Red…
Green Beret killed in Afghanistan attack
Aug. 10–Tragedy has once again struck a Bristol, R.I., couple, whose eldest child, a decorated U.S. Army Green Beret killed Friday in combat in Afghanistan, became the second son they’ve lost in the past decade. Master Sgt. Peter Andrew McKenna Jr., 35, a career soldier serving…
Tennessee National Guard approved to carry handguns
NASHVILLE (Times Free Press) — When Tennessee National Guard recruiters return to their storefront stations, select members will be packing federally issued 9 mm handguns to defend themselves from would-be future attacks like the July 16 assault on a U.S.…
