by Jim Heath | Jun 4, 2020 | Headlines, Military
Former commandant of the Marine Corps, retired Gen. Robert Neller, is urging national leaders to “speak out for justice and fairness” following George Floyd’s death in police custody. “The time for being silent has passed, at least for me,” Neller wrote in a...
by Jim Heath | Jun 4, 2020 | Headlines, Military
Hundreds of combat soldiers with the 82nd Airborne were ordered to leave Washington, D.C, today after retired generals and the nation’s top officer rebuked Donald Trump over his use of the military. Members of the elite unit had been deployed to the...
by Jim Heath | Jun 3, 2020 | Headlines, Military, Trump
James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an...
by Jim Heath | Jun 2, 2020 | Headlines, Military, Trump
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen broke his silence today to say he was ‘sickened’ by the use of U.S. National Guard forces to push protesters out of Lafayette park to make way for President Trump’s now infamous photo-op....
by Jim Heath | Apr 7, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Military
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned today as pressure mounted on President Trump’s administration to take action in the wake of Modly’s profanity-laced tirade to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Modly submitted his resignation letter to...
by Jim Heath | Apr 3, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Military
A massive crowd of sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt threw coronavirus-related caution to the wind to send off their captain — standing by their former commander after he was abruptly relieved of his duties. Capt. Brett Crozier — the ship captain who was...
