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
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.…
Veteran commits suicide after being denied proper treatment
The controversy over whether the U.S. Army is actively treating soldiers with substance abuse problems has returned, as a former soldier recently committed suicide on July 2nd. Some are describing Georgia National Guard Spc. Stephen Akins’s suicide as a tragedy…
Shots fired at soldiers at Camp Shelby in Mississippi
Violence aimed at American soldiers in the United States certainly seems to be on the rise, and the troubling trend continued yesterday at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. While around 4,500 soldiers were conducting training exercises at the Joint Forces Training…
