Tag: marine

DALLAS — The Texas man who earlier this year tricked the Army into allowing him to join Army Reserve as a noncommissioned officer has been sentenced to six months in prison and a bad conduct discharge, an Army spokeswoman said.

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’ landmark ruling was widely cheered by gay rights organizations that credited her with getting accomplished what President Obama and Washington politics [...]

Dawn Wilcox, an Army veteran who uses a wheelchair, says that American Airlines forced her to sit in urine-soaked clothes when she was unable to make it to the bathroom, reports local Texas news station KWTX.

Remember Afghanistan? For that matter, remember Iraq? When the Iraq war ended, and I use the term loosely, there was no ticker tape parade down the streets of Manhattan filled with returning troops. There was no time defying photograph of a nurse draped over the arms of a Sailor, destined to forever be lip-locked in [...]

A Kinston, N.C., man who told The Free Press for a story published Sunday that he served as an Army Ranger and took part in an infamous battle in Mogadishu, Somalia, was not a participant in that fight and was not a Ranger, according to former Rangers who were there.