Best sappers: Army combat engineers win back-to-back honorsThe duo beat out 100 other pairs from 23 Army installations and 46 battalions in a competition designed to “punch them in the face.”By Zamone Perez9 days ago
The man who made Belleau Wood — and the Marine Corps — immortalFloyd Gibbons made history when his dispatch got past the wartime censor.By Claire Barrett10 days ago
Fort Leonard Wood reports highest number of basic trainee suicide attemptsFort Leonard Wood, Missouri, reported 26 suicide attempts in 2019.By Meghann Myers3 years ago
Fort Leonard Wood chaplain to plead guilty to child sexual abuseThe chaplain was assigned most recently to a Fort Leonard Wood basic training unit.By Davis Winkie3 years ago
The U.S. Marines’ mythic fight at Belleau Wood By every tactical measure of the time the Marines should have been annihilated; but they weren’t.By David T. Zabecki3 years ago
Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is finding and honoring its veterans with the help of familiesGreen-Wood Cemetery's WWII project is intended to identify the graves of veterans and commemorate them with an online biography.By Harm Venhuizen3 years ago
Fort Hood report highlights Army CID’s failings there, and possibly elsewhereThe base CID detachment was “basically being used as a training ground,” said a former FBI inspector who served on the committee. “They had a difficult time, and it’s not their fault.”By Kyle Rempfer3 years ago
Here’s why these Marines are now wearing the French FourregereMarines in these two regiments have worn the green braided rope over their shoulder in their service and dress blue uniforms.By Philip Athey3 years ago
These are the Marines who died at Belleau WoodThe two Marines waited to join the attack until the third wave was launched, when they marched side-by-side into the German machine-gun fire.By Philip Athey3 years ago
First trainees set to graduate from pandemic-modified basic trainingTrainees at Fort Leonard Wood were held in quarantine with their drill sergeants for the first 21 days of basic training.By Harm Venhuizen4 years ago
Two Army training sites had 210 combined COVID-19 cases after recruits left controlled monitoring phasesMore than 140 soldiers training at Fort Benning and about 70 at Fort Leonard Wood tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.By Kyle Rempfer4 years ago
Mobilize veterans to fight COVID-19We should issue a call to action in our communities for veterans to step back onto the front lines and join the fight in the face of this danger.By Jake Wood and Dr. David Callaway4 years ago