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Latest "ambush" stories
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How a bloody Ka-Bar knife fight during the Vietnam War got this Marine a Navy Cross 52 years later
Low crawling through the dark of night during an intense fire fight during the Vietnam War, Lance Cpl. James Stogner killed several enemy with a Ka-Bar knife.
By Shawn Snow
Niger investigation: What went wrong, what’s being done to fix it
Mistakes that led to an outmanned and outgunned convoy of U.S. and Nigerien forces getting overrun last October were widespread, a 6,300-page investigation has found.
By Tara Copp
Overrun and outnumbered, special ops soldiers fought to the end in deadly Niger ambush
In the months since the Oct. 4 ambush, U.S. Africa Command has conducted an extensive investigation to answer two questions: What were those service members doing there, and why didn’t they have better support?
By Tara Copp
DoD approves danger pay for Niger, Mali, Cameroon
Service members deployed to Niger, Mali and northern Cameroon qualify to receive imminent danger pay/hostile fire pay retroactive to June 7, 2017, DoD announced Thursday.
By Tara Copp