May 3, 2016 More US troops heading to Iraq: How the new advise and assist mission will work The latest expansion of the U.S. mission in Iraq centers on bringing Sunni tribes into the fight, a critical goal in the campaign to defeat the Islamic State group.
May 3, 2016 Army Secretary McHugh to Step Down in November Secretary of the Army John McHugh is stepping down as the service's top civilian leader after more than six years.
May 3, 2016 Syrian Electronic Army Takes Down US Army Website The Syrian Electronic Army is taking credit for hacking and taking down the U.S. Army’s website, Army.mil. The site went down Monday afternoon and as of 7 p.m. EST Monday evening, it was still down. Initially, the group had a message pop up on the site saying: “Your commanders admit they are training the people they have […]
May 3, 2016 Army Secretary McHugh is stepping down after 6 years on the job Army Secretary John McHugh says he will step down no later than November 1, after leading the service for the past six years.
May 3, 2016 Ranger School Leaders: Last Three Females Have Earned Another Chance Three female soldiers will try again starting June 22 to become the first women to earn Ranger tabs.
May 3, 2016 US general says criticism of air campaign as timid and ineffective is based on fiction In an emphatic defense of the air war in Iraq and Syria, a senior American general fired back Friday at critics who call the campaign timid and ineffective, saying bombs have tied down Islamic State fighters without killing large numbers of civilians.
May 3, 2016 Arlington Cemetery denies burial for National Guardsman killed in helicopter training crash Arlington National Cemetery says a Louisiana National Guardsman who was killed in a helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico can't be buried at the hallowed grounds because he was killed during a training exercise.
May 3, 2016 Officials say anthrax not properly killed in Army lab was sent to dozens of locations U.S. defense officials say the problem of unintended shipments of potentially live anthrax spores over the past decade is likely worse than first believed.
May 3, 2016 Petraeus Disagrees with Carter, Says Iraqis Have ‘Will To Fight’ Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus disagreed with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's charge that the Iraqis lacked the will to fight.
May 3, 2016 No Women Pass Army Ranger School, Three Invited to Start Over Female soldiers have failed in their second attempt to pass the first phase of U.S. Army Ranger School.