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By 1944, Adams Earley was the commanding officer of the first battalion of predominantly Black women. By the war’s end she’d risen to the rank of Lt. Col., which was the highest rank a woman could legally hold at the time, and it made her the highest-ranking Black woman in the military.
By 1944, Adams Earley was the commanding officer of the first battalion of predominantly Black women. By the war’s end she’d risen to the rank of Lt. Col., which was the highest rank a woman could legally hold at the time and made her the highest-ranking Black woman in the military.
After a 40-year-old Army Reservist named Robert Card went on a shooting spree in Lewiston, Maine, in October, his community grasped for answers. Eighteen people were killed. Neighborhoods were locked down for days as the police hunted for Mr. Card. Then, after he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, his family and fellow […]
The US Army Black Knights beat the US Navy Midshipmen 17-11 at their annual American football matchup on Saturday. For the first time in the rivalry’s history, teams from the US Military Academy at West Point and the US Naval Academy met on the gridiron in New England at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The win is the Army’s […]
Julius W. Becton Jr., a three-star general who was charged with defending Europe from a Russian invasion during the Cold War as the first Black commander of an Army corps, and who later led the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Washington, D.C., school system, died on Nov. 28 at Fort Belvoir, Va. He was […]
U.S. Army overturns convictions of 110 black soldiers FOX 26 Houston Source link
Russia’s military has bought hundreds of Chinese all-terrain vehicles popular in the US, in a move that risks heightening tensions between the west and Beijing over President Xi Jinping’s tacit backing for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s purchases open up the buggy manufacturer Shandong Odes Industry to retaliation from authorities in the US, where the […]
Rebecca Wright/CNN Army Master Sgt. Benjamin Wensel smiles at his daughter, Willa, at the Daughters of the American Revolution national headquarters in Washington, DC, on November 30, 2023. The pair is performing in the US Army Band’s holiday festival this year. CNN — The holidays have always been a busy time for 11-year-old Willa Wensel’s […]
New Zealand Army gunners assigned to 163rd Battery, 16th Field Regiment Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (RNZA) practice sling load training with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division in Helemano Military Reservation, Hawaii on Nov. 7, 2023. The Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) is the Army’s newest Combat Training Center (CTC) […]
Army Lt. Col. Don Carlos Faith Jr. was one of thousands of men forced to fight through frigid conditions and overwhelming odds during the Korean War’s Battle of Chosin Reservoir. He didn’t survive the ordeal, but the leadership and bravery he showed while commanding troops earned him a posthumous Medal of Honor. Faith […]