Army
The Senate committee has repeatedly requested information regarding the service branch’s safety surveillance system policy. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, has threatened to subpoena the U.S. Army for its refusal to disclose information regarding the deadly crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January […]
A Russian court has reduced the prison sentence of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, who was convicted of threatening to kill his girlfriend and stealing from her, state media reported Monday. Black was sentenced in June 2024 to three years and nine months by a court in Vladivostok, but an appeals court cut the […]
The US Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz has expressed outrage over the US Army’s failure to provide a memo relating to its use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) in the National Capital Region. On March 31, 2025, Senator Cruz and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell said the US Army’s refusal to hand over the memo […]
Military personnel work at the site of a rescue operation for missing U.S. soldiers at Pabradė training ground, in Lithuania, on Friday. Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images Scores of soldiers and rescue workers are heading to Lithuania to assist in the recovery efforts of four U.S. […]
by Daniel Johnson March 29, 2025 He was one of the last surviving members of the all-Black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed the Triple Nickels. Sgt. Joe Harris, who was believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper as well as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, died […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order ending diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the federal government has resulted in the deletion of a U.S. Army website page about a military base renamed for a World War I hero. Sergeant Henry Johnson, a native of Albany, enlisted in 1917 with the all-Black 15th New York National Guard […]
CNN — Hundreds of troops and emergency workers are racing to find four US soldiers who went missing during a training mission near Lithuania’s border with Belarus, the US Army said Thursday, after their armored vehicle was found submerged in a body of water.
A heavy vehicle that was carrying four U.S. Army soldiers remained submerged in a swamp in Lithuania on Thursday, two days after the soldiers were reported missing after they did not return from a training mission, the U.S. military said. The vehicle was discovered on Wednesday after a search by the U.S. Army, the Lithuanian […]
RTX’s Collins Aerospace business has received a USD 80 million (EUR 73.8 million) contract to upgrade the avionics system of US Army Black Hawk helicopters for the H-60M MOSA Avionics Architecture Solution programme. The upgrade will feature Mosarc, which is Collins’ family of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)-compliant products, and will streamline technology integration, allowing […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Collins Aerospace an $80 million contract to upgrade H-60M Black Hawk avionics, the company announced. The contract includes updating the twin-engine, medium-lift helicopters with the company’s modular open systems approach (MOSA)-compliant products, Mosarc. The avionics upgrade streamlines future technology integration, “enabling soldiers to quickly update avionics technology in real time,” […]