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‘Fat Leonard’ Appeals 15-Year Sentence, But Does So Under Seal — At Least for Now
Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard” at the center of the U.S. Navy’s worst-ever bribery and corruption scandal, has appealed the 15-year prison term he was sentenced to last year.
‘Game changing’: Navy reloads cruiser’s missiles at sea for first time
The Navy resupplied a warship’s weapons at sea for the first time last week – providing what Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro called a “game changing” update in combat readiness for the surface fleet. The cruiser Chosin and its sailors employed the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method device, known as TRAM, to load the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System off the coast of San Diego on Friday. The TR...[Read More]
‘Game changing’: Navy reloads cruiser’s missiles at sea for first time
The Navy resupplied a warship’s weapons at sea for the first time last week – providing what Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro called a “game changing” update in combat readiness for the surface fleet. The cruiser Chosin and its sailors employed the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method device, known as TRAM, to load the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System off the coast of San Diego on Friday. The TR...[Read More]
‘Golden Dome’ success will require national buy-in, official says
President Donald Trump’s order for the military to build an advanced homeland missile shield will require a level of government cooperation akin to World War II’s Manhattan Project, a top Space Force official said this week. “It’s going to take concerted effort from the very top of our government,” Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein said Wednesday. “It’s going to take national wi...[Read More]
‘He Will Be Missed’: One of Last USS Nevada Veterans Dies at 101
Charles Sehe served on the USS Nevada during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France and the 1945 invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
‘I see ‘em. We’ll fight ‘em’: Patton’s Black Panthers
“I would never have asked for you if you weren’t good,” George Patton addressed the U.S. Army’s first Black tankers in an impassioned speech in October 1944. “I have nothing but the best in my army. I don’t care what color you are as long as you go out and kill those Kraut sons of bitches. Everyone has their eyes on you and is expecting great things of you. Most of all your race is looking forward...[Read More]
‘Keep up the fire’: The Boxer Rebellion and the Marines who fought it
Since its inauguration in 1862, the Medal of Honor has gone through an evolutionary standard. Until World War I, many of the deeds that led to their award were not described in convincing detail. Sometimes it took a witness of the act of heroism to supply those details. An early case in point occurred during the Boxer Rebellion. On Oct. 18, 1899, a Chinese nationalist movement called the Society o...[Read More]
‘Made for this’ — Marine Corps drops new ad, motivation intensifies
“Marines are made for this — made for the calling only warriors can answer.” The bellowing narrative establishes a familiar aggressive tone in the Marine Corps’ newest ad, one that comes amid the military’s usual slew of philosophical shifts driving the rest of the Pentagon’s (oftentimes unpredictable) recruiting efforts. In their latest creation, the service’s marketing team, which settled on the...[Read More]
‘Made for this’ — Marine Corps drops new ad, motivation intensifies
“Marines are made for this — made for the calling only warriors can answer.” The bellowing narrative establishes a familiar aggressive tone in the Marine Corps’ newest ad, one that comes amid the military’s usual slew of philosophical shifts driving the rest of the Pentagon’s (oftentimes unpredictable) recruiting efforts. In their latest creation, the service’s marketing team, which settled on the...[Read More]
‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ is a veteran’s ghost story that refuses to fade
My Dead Friend Zoe opens with the familiar image of a soldier returning home, but the weight that follows is anything but typical. Directed by Army veteran and filmmaker Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, the film traces the uneasy civilian life of Merit, an Afghanistan war vet haunted by the ghost of her best friend and fellow soldier, Zoe. What could’ve been a flat metaphor is instead a fully embodied charac...[Read More]
‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ is a veteran’s ghost story that refuses to fade
My Dead Friend Zoe opens with the familiar image of a soldier returning home, but the weight that follows is anything but typical. Directed by Army veteran and filmmaker Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, the film traces the uneasy civilian life of Merit, an Afghanistan war vet haunted by the ghost of her best friend and fellow soldier, Zoe. What could’ve been a flat metaphor is instead a fully embodied charac...[Read More]
‘No Purging on My Ship.’ She Hid an Eating Disorder and Lost Her Navy Career. It Saved Her Life
Advocates worry the military’s focus on ‘fit, not fat’ is silencing service members who struggle with their body image.