- Home
- > News
- > Local Military
Local Military
Wright-Patt C-17 to fly more than half a million meals to Haiti
An Air Force Reserve C-17 Globemaster III hauling more than a half a million meals began a humanitarian aid mission Friday to the impoverished nation of Haiti. A 445th Airlift Wing crew of 36 people was due to drop off the equivalent of 541,728 meals once 90,000 pounds of food ...
Ohio senator says VA workers doing union work should be filing veterans’ claims
U.S. Sens. Rob Portman and Tom Coburn say they want to know why the Department of Veterans Affairs pays employees to perform union duties instead of official government work.Portman, R-Ohio, and Coburn, R-Okla., say they’re concerned about the backlog of claims, and say they want the VA to clarify policies ...
Military leaders want to keep authority over sex assault cases
Military leaders Tuesday vowed to crack down on an epidemic of sexual assault in the military. But they said they were unwilling to take sex assault cases out of the military chain of command. As lawmakers try to determine the best way to tackle sexual assault in the military, two ...
Court: Can man protest outside military base?
The Supreme Court will decide whether to reinstate a man’s conviction for protesting outside a military base in California.Federal officials on Monday asked justices to reinstate John Dennis Apel’s trespass convictions.Apel had been banned from Vandenberg Air Force Base for previous protesting activities, so he set up in a designated ...
Court rejects appeal from convicted Army officer
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an Army officer’s appeal of his conviction for killing an unarmed Iraqi prison detainee in 2008.The justices let stand a divided decision by the military’s highest appeals court that upheld the conviction of 1st Lt. Michael Behenna for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone. ...
Fallen soldier a hero to his family
After a shopping trip last December, Krista Williams returned home to find two uniformed Army officers sitting with her mother in the living room. She knew immediately what to expect. Her husband, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Wesley Williams, who had been deployed to Afghanistan the month before, had prepared her ...
Leaders: Air Force facing ‘readiness crisis’
Spending cuts have forced a “readiness crisis” in the Air Force, grounding a dozen combat squadrons, cutting training and maintenance, and threatening modernization of an aging fleet, top Air Force leaders said Friday. “The ill effects of sequestration are already taking a toll on our Air Force,” Secretary of the ...
Air Force Museum unveils plans for major expansion
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will relocate a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft collection to a new $46 million gallery in 2015, giving hundreds of thousands of visitors a chance to see both historic and futuristic air and space planes now closed off in a hangar from museum visitors. ...
House panel moves to curb military sexual assaults
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of a House panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a key step toward tackling the problem by passing legislation Wednesday that would strip commanding officers of their longstanding authority to unilaterally change or dismiss court-martial convictions in rape and ...
© 2013 Cox Media Group. By using this website,
you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices
.
You're Almost Done!
Select a display name and password
{* #socialRegistrationForm *} {* socialRegistration_displayName *} {* socialRegistration_emailAddress *} {* traditionalRegistration_password *} {* traditionalRegistration_passwordConfirm *}Tell us about yourself
{* registration_firstName *} {* registration_lastName *} {* registration_postalZip *} {* registration_birthday *} {* registration_gender *} {* agreeToTerms *}