Former Marine Freed in Venezuela-US Prisoner Swap Was Convicted of Triple Murder Dahud Hanid Ortiz, 54, a former U.S. Marine born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, was convicted of killing three people in Madrid...
5 Fort Johnson Soldiers Face Charges in Multiple Rapes All the soldiers have pleaded not guilty, and most have trials set to begin this November, with proceedings likely to stretch...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Father of 3 Marines Who Was Beaten by ICE Agents Released, Leaving Family to Process His Detention The son, Marine veteran Alejandro Barranco, told Military.com after the arrest that he initially "couldn't believe" the video...
Retired Army Officer Pleads Guilty to Leaking National Defense Info on Foreign Dating Website David Slater, after retiring from the Army, was an Air Force employee assigned to U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force...
Former Marine Gets 40 Years for Extorting Minors as NCIS Ramps Up Efforts to Catch Online Predators The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which led the investigation into Fritzinger, found that he had been serially...
Senators Seek Guardrails Against JAG Firings in Must-Pass Defense Policy Bill Firing a top military lawyer would require a congressional notification that includes a substantive justification under a...
Appeals Court Throws Out Plea Deal for Alleged Mastermind of Sept. 11 Attacks A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid...
Families of Those Killed in Black Hawk Collision with Jet Want More 'Openness, Compassion' from Army A letter addressed to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll calls on the service to communicate directly with the families in the wake...
Pendleton Marine Charged with Sexual Exploitation of Middle School Students Pfc. Justin Ryder Simmons, 19, was arrested June 16 at Camp Pendleton, California. He was extradited to his home state of...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
