Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, says beards would detract from a professional military image.
More than 16 years and hundreds of deployments into the war in Afghanistan, the story of the first ground troops to strike back after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.
A local Afghan worker who killed five and wounded 16 in a suicide bombing on Bagram Airfield last year spent about four months building his suicide vest in his work space on base.
The Army is in full damage control mode following an explosive story that the service had in August lifted a ban on granting waivers for history of mental health disorders and substance abuse.
When Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl came home in 2014, he was potentially entitled to hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay that accumulated over five years while he was in Taliban captivity in Afghanistan.
Retired Capt. Gary “Mike” Rose always thought he‘d never share the story of Operation Tailwind with anyone, let alone go to the White House and receive the Medal of Honor from the president of the United States.
Since photos surfaced in late September of a now-second lieutenant sporting a Che Guevara T-shirt under his uniform at West Point’s 2016 graduation and commissioning ceremony, West Point and the Army have drawn the ire from everyone from active soldiers to a Florida senator.