Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members.
A recently separated soldier and her active-duty boyfriend have been charged with conspiracy and cruelty to animals after a video of them shooting her service dog was discovered by authorities.
On the 45th anniversary of that action that earned them the military's third-highest award, four Vietnam veterans gathered in Arkansas to receive their medals.
One of three soldiers who were aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk that crashed in southern Maryland on Monday has been medevaced from the scene, according to officials.
The Special Forces soldier killed Saturday in Afghanistan has been identified as Staff Sgt. Mark De Alencar, according to a Defense Department release on Monday.
In the days following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., the Defense Department send two teams of Army special forces soldiers to Afghanistan to bring down the Taliban.
Lt. Gen. Nadja West is the youngest of 12 adopted children, 10 of whom joined the Army, raised by a logistics warrant officer and his journalist/activist wife.