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Paratrooper’s Afghan War book helps platoonmates tell their story
The author deployed in 2009-10 to Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division.
By Todd South
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US military to end live-fire training in Hawaii’s Makua Valley
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Army Secretary Christine Wormuth confirmed the military's new stance in a statement filed in federal court on Friday.
‘Brittle’ air refueling capability endangers US during major war
The Hudson Institute argues that the answer isn't in more tankers, but better distribution of refueling architecture on the ground.
Super Hornet crashes in Death Valley
The pilot was treated and released following Monday's mishap, which the Navy did not announce until Tuesday.
Best pics of the week: July 18, 2021
F/A-18E Super Hornets over the Ike, a training mission at Travis AFB, Marines do PT at sea and and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
Biden to nominate defense industry expert Andrew Hunter as Air Force acquisition boss
Andrew Hunter is known in Washington as a low-key professional and true expert on defense acquisition.
Wildfire prompts Beale AFB to evacuate some base housing
Some residents in base housing at Beale Air Force Base, California, were urged to evacuate as a wildfire spread across Yuba County Tuesday.
Another official resigns over censored Memorial Day speech
Cindy Suchan, chair of the Memorial Day parade committee and president of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary, stepped down nearly a week after the ceremony.
Ohio American Legion wants resignations after audio cut in Memorial Day speech on Black people’s role honoring fallen Union soldiers
The organizers of the ceremony turned off a speaker’s microphone when the former U.S. Army officer began talking about how freed Black slaves had honored fallen soldiers soon after the Civil War.
As our nation seeks to leave the war in Afghanistan behind, let’s not forget our troops’ sacrifice
We need a mental health system for veterans that identifies their struggles with PTSD sooner, says the author of this commentary.
By Col. (ret.) Michael Hudson
Book excerpt: ‘The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley’
In "The Hardest Place," Wesley Morgan unravels the history troops didn’t know, captures the culture and reality of the war through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing American missteps that made each unit’s job harder than the last.
By Wesley Morgan