Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
When the Senate confirmed Army Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy back in August, the former Ranger and Defense Department staffer knew he had his work cut out for him. Not only as a senior official in the Department of the Army, but until the Senate confirmed an Army secretary, as its top official.
The U.S. Military Academy released a statement Tuesday after a recent graduate posted photos of himself with pro-communist messages hidden under his uniform and cover while still a cadet.
If he hadn’t wanted to avoid the Marine Corps so badly, retired Capt. Gary Michael ”Mike” Rose might never have been on the 1970 operation that earned him the military’s highest award for valor.
The soldiers were sent home to the U.S. and removed from their positions earlier this month after White House staff learned of their actions, according to news reports.
A group of Fort Benning drill sergeants have been suspended amid an investigation into multiple sexual assault allegations, a Fort Benning spokesman confirmed to Army Times on Wednesday.
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. eventually became a Tuskegee Airman and the Air Force’s first black general, but when he was just a cadet in 1932 at the United States Military Academy, no one wanted to be his roommate, let alone be his friend or speak to him unless absolutely necessary.
As local governments and college campuses take down more and more monuments to Confederate heroes, eyes are turning to the military — particularly the Army, which has 10 installations named after Confederate officers.
Spc. Alex Ketchum, an infantryman, started her transition from man to woman in late 2015. Eight months later, former Defense Secretary Ash Carter lifted the military’s ban on transgender service, and by the following March, Ketchum had completed the steps to change her gender in the military’s personnel system.