According to a recent study, American soldiers tend to have worse heart health than civilians of similar ages. Even though army soldiers have to be in tip top shape only about 30% of them were found to have ideal heart health. On the other hand about 50% of civilians have ideal heart health.
Quick off the heels of Veterans Day, the Army is now allowing people with a history of drug and alcohol abuse, self-mutilation, depression and bipolar disorder to use waivers to join ranks. This policy was put into motion in August of 2017 but wasn’t advertised until news outlets began picking up the story recently. Why […]
MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — An Army staff sergeant has admitted shooting his wife and three police officers who showed up at his front door, including a rookie officer working her first shift who died from her wounds, according to court records. Ronald Hamilton, 32, of Woodbridge, is charged with capital murder in Officer Ashley Guindon’s […]
For the first time, the U.S. government is confirming that it conducted secret chemical experiments on World War II troops by grouping them according to…
Clarence E. Huntley and Joseph Shambrey, two men of the historic all-Black Tuskegee Airmen military, passed away on January 5, at the same age of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army statistician obtained a security clearance and worked for years on sensitive battlefield trauma research while lying about holding advanced degrees, the Army has acknowledged. The statistician, Amy N. Apodaca, was quietly forced to resign in January after admitting she did not earn the doctoral degree she had been claiming. Inquiries […]
The United States Army has finally acknowledged that the term “negro” is outdated. Welcome to 2014, U.S. Army! It seems that the military branch has…
Most branches of the military are getting with the times and loosening up their standards about what kinds of hairstyles women are allowed to wear.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who has been recovering in Germany after five years as a Taliban captive, returned to the United States early Friday to continue his medical treatment. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, said Bergdahl flew to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio from Ramstein Air […]
A Fort Bragg soldier and his wife remained locked up Tuesday after sharing videos online of them having sex with dogs. According to NY Daily News, Ruben and Amber Fox, 23, were caught in Raeford, N.C., south of the Army base after a two week long investigation. The couple has been charged with bestiality, disseminating […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday. The killing comes as the monthly U.S. death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season […]
