Tag: United States military
Air Force One subcontractor countersues Boeing over delays
FORT WORTH, Texas — A subcontractor working on the new Air Force One aircraft for Boeing countersued the Chicago-based aircraft giant Friday over Boeing's...
Black soldier mistreatment common even before Virginia case
NORFOLK, Va. — The police officers’ guns were trained on the uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant, his arms raised and palms outstretched as he sat...
Panama exhumes body looking for victims of 1989 US invasion
PANAMA CITY — Investigators exhumed another body from a Panama City cemetery Thursday in an attempt to identify the remains of some victims of...
Biden meets Japan’s leader to boost China-facing alliances
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is welcoming Japan’s prime minister to the White House on Friday in his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign...
Families hope loved ones can be found alive in capsized boat
PORT FOURCHON, La. — Divers searching for oil industry workers on a capsized liftboat prepared to enter the overturned vessel on Friday, a rescue...
51 West Points cadets caught cheating must repeat a year
Most of the 73 West Point cadets accused in the biggest cheating scandal in decades at the U.S. Military Academy are being required to...
US Navy decommissions massive ship destroyed by fire
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy on Wednesday decommissioned the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego nine months after flames engulfed it in...
Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins unanimous pick: VMI’s 1st Black leader
LEXINGTON, Va. — Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, who was named interim superintendent of Virginia Military Institute amid the controversy over the school’s Confederate ties...
Probe faults DC Guard use of aircraft during June protests
WASHINGTON — Members of the Washington D.C. National Guard lacked clear guidance and didn't fully understand how to appropriately use helicopters during the civil...
Army probing video of Black man harassed by soldier
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Officials at U.S. Army's largest basic training facility say they are looking into a video that appears to show a non-commissioned...