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The US Army’s Black Hawk helicopters could get fitted with the planned next-generation engines as early as 2025. This deal will follow a series of tests of the new GE Aerospace T901 engines this year. Designed under the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), this engine promises better performance, range, and longevity than existing ones. However, […]
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Walter Morris’ journey In the winter of 1943, enlisted Black male soldiers in the 555th platoon were training as if they were parachutists. While Black men were not authorized to do that at the time, Walter Morris still led several men in the training. At that moment, the Black man from Georgia did not know […]
TOPEKA — Academy Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker Kevin Willmott welcomed the U.S. Army’s decision to set aside courts-martial convictions of 110 Black soldiers, including 19 executed for involvement in World War I-era race rioting in Houston. Willmott, a professor of film at University of Kansas, released “The 24th” in 2020 to shed light on injustices […]
WASHINGTON — Command posts must become nimbler and better networked over greater distances to prevent an enemy from targeting them and killing soldiers, according to U.S. Army leaders closely watching Russia’s assault on Ukraine for lessons in warfare. Command posts of old were relatively stationary, a bear to construct and then breakdown, and often distinguishable […]
Revelations that the U.S. Army sprayed a carcinogen throughout St. Louis’ predominantly Black Pruitt-Igoe housing development as part of an early Cold War-era program to study what would happen in a biological warfare attack may be shocking to some people, but the details aren’t new to those aware of this country’s history of secret, unethical […]
A group of Ukrainian Army soldiers pierced by Russian grenades and mortar shells arrived at a hospital recently in need of surgery. It would have been a familiar scene from the bloody war grinding on in Ukraine, except for two crucial differences: Most of the wounded soldiers were American, and so was the hospital — […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has named its first new combat vehicle in nearly four decades the M10 Booker after two soldiers killed in action, one in the Iraq War and the other in World War II. Staff Sgt. Stevon A. Booker was killed April 5, 2003, during the so . . .
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM (Associated Press/Report for America) FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members. The change was the most prominent […]
LAWRENCE — In 1968, the United States Army was fighting two wars: one against enemy forces in Vietnam, the other in its own barracks between soldiers of different races. This racial unrest among the troops led to murders, riots, beatings, burnings and mass refusal to follow orders. A new generation of Black GIs were rejecting […]