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A year without combat deaths: This Memorial Day, military fatalities overseas were the fewest since 9/11

18 service members have died in non-combat incidents overseas since last Memorial Day—the lowest number in more than two decades.

By Harm Venhuizen

22 months ago

Advice from a retired SF officer locked down in COVID-19 ravaged Italy.

Nothing that I have experienced in either my U.S. military or United Nations careers is comparable.

3 years ago

NCO blamed for accident that killed nine soldiers at Fort Hood

Flash flood warnings had been issued and the crossing had been designated off-limits, but a platoon heading out for some Sergeant’s Time training on the morning of June 2, 2016 didn’t know that.

By Meghann Myers

6 years ago

Navy’s top officer calls for fleet-wide review in light of McCain disaster

Declaring that the Navy “needs to get to the bottom of this,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson called Monday morning for a global fleet-wide operational pause that seeks to understand the causes of the service’s spate of fatal at-sea collisions this year.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

6 years ago

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