Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
All was going reasonably well for a group of Special Forces soldiers looking to disrupt Taliban operations in a small Afghanistan village last year, until the team came upon a 20-foot tall steel gate that no one had anticipated.
The commanding officer and command sergeant major of Womack Army Medical Center have been temporarily suspended during an unspecified investigation, an XVIII Airborne Corps spokesman confirmed to Army Times on Friday.
Last year, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, made an unanswered plea to then-President Obama to pardon 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, who is serving 19 years in military prison for ordering the killings of Afghan civilians.
Half a decade into its search for a new handgun, the Army has settled on Sig Sauer's version of the Modular Handgun System, according to a Thursday release from the Army.
A female officer has completed the Army's rigorous selection process for its storied 75th Ranger Regiment and is on her way to joining a unit in the next few months, according to a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command.