Air defense artillery, radars, munitions, weapon systems, and armored vehicles are headed to Ukraine after months of military aid was stalled in Congress amid warnings by senior military officials in early April that the Ukrainians were weeks away from being outgunned by the Russians. On Tuesday night, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The National Security supplemental aid provides roughly $26 billion for Israel, $61 billion for Ukraine and $8 billion for U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific — namely Taiwan.  The ..read more

For the first time in the history of the Army’s Best Sapper Competition, two captains from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell won back-to-back years. U.S. Army photo by Amanda Sullivan. Two captains from the 101st Airborne Division are now the first two soldiers to win the Army’s Best Sapper competition two years in a row. Capts. Matthew Cushing and Joseph Palazini, both company commanders in the 21st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Fort Campbell, outlasted teams from 3rd Ranger Battalion and two cadets from West Point to win the four-day competition ..read more

Colombian police tracked down the two men and a woman who drugged two U.S. soldiers then robbed them in 2020 in Bogota. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade). Two U.S. soldiers looking for a drink and a bar in which to watch a soccer game in Bogata, Colombia instead ran into a ‘tomaseas’ scam — local slang for adding a drug to someone’s drink in order to rob them. Both soldiers ended up in the hospital when a Colombian couple slipped them a series of drugs over a night of drinking. The soldiers awoke the next day to four missing cell phones, a drained bank account and stolen credit cards ..read more

As the U.S. plans for a withdrawal of American troops from Niger, it's also facing calls from its neighbor, Chad, to remove its small contingent of troops. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Evan Parker). Days after the U.S. accepted demands to withdraw American troops from Niger, the U.S. is also facing calls from its African neighbor, Chad, to remove its small contingent of troops.  “We can confirm the beginning of discussions between the U.S. and Niger for the orderly withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country,” Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder tol ..read more

Former Army Capt. Nicholas Brooklier poses for a photo at Recruiting Sub-Station Killeen, Recruiting Station Fort Worth, Texas before shipping out to Marine Corps Recruit Training on Jan. 31, 2024. (Cpl. Jaiden O. Sangster/U.S. Marine Corps). A former Army officer has relinquished his captain’s bars to enlist in the Marine Corps. “I was kind of at a point in my life in the Army where I didn’t feel really fulfilled,” Nicholas Brooklier said in a Marine Corps news story. “So, it was either get out and go to the civilian world, and to be honest, I did not want to do that. I felt like my time in ..read more

FILE: U.S. soldiers stand near an armored military vehicle on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, bordering Turkey, on March 27, 2023. (Delil Souleiman /AFP via Getty Images). For the first time in more than a month, Iraqi militants fired rockets at U.S. forces in the Middle East. Five rockets were launched from inside Iraq at a U.S. base inside northeastern Syria, Iraqi security forces announced Sunday night.  The attack took place at roughly 9:50 p.m. local time, with the rockets fired from the town of Zummar, northwest from Mosul and relatively close to ..read more

Alaska Air National Guard pararescuemen assigned to the 212th Rescue Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, conduct a freefall jump out of a of a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 144th Airlift Squadron, over the Pacific Ocean near Homer, Alaska, March 3, Air Force photo by Senior Airman Emily Farnsworth. The National Guard’s country-wide plan to level out personnel numbers is being pushed back a year for Alaska’s Air National Guard. Instead of going into effect this October, the National Guard Bureau will push implementing the new changes to Sept. 30, 2025. That delay, Alaska’s congressiona ..read more

The USS Higgins (photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Carla Ocampo/U.S. Navy). A sailor who previously served in Japan aboard a guided-missile destroyer was found guilty in a court martial of sharing classified defense information with representatives of a foreign government.  A military court found Chief Petty Officer Bryce Pedicini guilty on Friday, April 19, according to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He was convicted on counts of attempted espionage, failure to obey a lawful order and attempted violation of a lawful general order. The decision came after a seve ..read more

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