— An estimate of how much additional cocaine will flow into the U.S. through October because of sequester-mandated cuts to aircraft and ships dedicated to hunting down drug smugglers. Last year, U.S. authorities seized 36 tons of cocaine on American soil. “Just the sequester cuts themselves is more than all the cocaine taken by all the law-enforcement agencies within our borders last year,” Coast Guard Rear Admiral Charles Michel, one of the nation's top cocaine cops, said Wednesday.
U.S. military veterans are coming home from war with tales to tell family and friends.
But these stories may not be about combat or the trials and tribulations of life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Instead, believe it or not, …
Always interesting when the Army starts poking around the nation’s nuclear stockpile – seeing as the service is no longer a big player in the atomic realm – to see if atomic weapons still make sense.
Ward Wilson isn’t …
Army Sgt. Zach Smola, rear-door gunner on a CH-47, keeps watch on the mountains in Uruzgan province, May 12.
The Army announced late Tuesday afternoon that it has suspended the commanding general of the post that trains half its troops and all its drill sergeants due to allegations of “adultery and a physical altercation.”
The …
I didn’t know Neil Landsberg.
But I know many of the fine veterans who work for and volunteer with the organization that Neil clearly loved, Team Rubicon.
Neil was 34 years old when he took his life May 9.
By all …
Cavalry scouts with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment train at Fort Irwin, Calif. May 16.
The shocking and bizarre death of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle – at the hands of a fellow combat vet – in Texas last February was one of the saddest tales to come out of the post-9/11 wars on the homefront. Battleland was able …
One of the world’s grandest ocean liners, built to move thousands of soldiers to distant battlefields, may face her final voyage.
TOKYO – After weeks of muddled statements, verbal gaffes and bungled photo ops, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made one thing unintentionally clear: He thinks Japan did little wrong in its years of war and colonial expansion, …
The folks at Georgia’s Fort Stewart Army post think they do a good job. Fact is, they think their work is good enough that it qualifies for a 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Those are those annual …
