A Russian soldier gave a middle finger of defiance to a drone that would later drop an explosive device on top of him. The soldier was one of six soldiers maneuvering into a position outside Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine.…
Russian soldier ‘flips the bird’ to drone right before being bombed
Former Marine arrested, accused of stalking ‘World of Warcraft’ video game player
Nathan Solis Los Angeles Times A former Marine from Orange County has been arrested and faces federal charges for allegedly creating hundreds of Twitter accounts used to stalk a professional video game player who lives in Calgary, Canada, authorities said. Evan Baltierra, 29,…
California kennel that caters to military families kept dogs in feces-filled squalor
Jeff Horseman The Press-Enterprise A rural Riverside County kennel that caters to military families kept dogs in feces-filled squalor, lost a client’s dog, let a canine’s open wounds fester and allowed a horse to starve to death, animal control officials allege. The Board…
Fort Benning might be renamed after the famous general portrayed by Mel Gibson in “We Were Soldiers”
Nick Wooten Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga. May 25—Fort Benning’s newly proposed name honors famed Vietnam commander Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife Julie, officials tasked with renaming Confederate military assets announced Tuesday. Fort Moore was selected from a list of 87 finalists that included…
‘Dead guy, Navy guy:’ Man tried to smuggle cousins across the border in a flag-draped coffin
Mark Reagan The Monitor, McAllen, Texas Only have a minute? Listen instead A federal judge on Friday sentenced a 33-year-old man who admitted to trying to smuggle two cousins from Mexico in a flag-draped “pseudo hearse” through the Falfurrias checkpoint to eight months in…
Army installations in the South receive their new ‘politically correct’ names
Leada Gore al.com Fort Rucker will be renamed after an Alabama native who earned the Medal of Honor for his service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, ABC News is reporting. Rucker, named for Col. Edmund Rucker, a brigade commander in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, will be…
