Sgt. Michael Anderson of the 504th Military Intelligence Brigade of Fort Hood, Texas, was kayaking at a state park when he heard a man cry for help in the waters behind him. His lifesaving actions were caught on his GoPro.
When then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced in 2013 that the Defense Department would open all military occupational specialties to women, he gave the services three years to come up with a plan.
The Indiana gymnasium floor of Jonathon Hunter’s former high school became a place to pay final respects to the solider killed this month in Afghanistan.
A group of Fort Benning drill sergeants have been suspended amid an investigation into multiple sexual assault allegations, a Fort Benning spokesman confirmed to Army Times on Wednesday.
He retired in 2005, but Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 26, facing six charges of child rape from incidents going back to the early 80s.
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. eventually became a Tuskegee Airman and the Air Force’s first black general, but when he was just a cadet in 1932 at the United States Military Academy, no one wanted to be his roommate, let alone be his friend or speak to him unless absolutely necessary.
Former West Point cadet Susan Shannon took to her blog in 2013 to recount the story of being raped by a fellow cadet in 1986 while at the military academy, amid a storm of press coverage about the prominence of sexual assault in the military.
