The Department of Gomer Pyle

I was an average high school student. I had to attend summer school between my junior and senior years just to graduate with my class and even then, on graduation night, I wasn’t sure there’d be a diploma waiting for me. I was always more interested in playing ball and [...]

Psychiatrist warning of violence danger among returned Marines fired

UPDATED AND EXPANDED: In the wake of the Fort Hood tragedy, there have been media reports that mental health staff had been concerned about Major Nidal Malik “AbduWali” Hasan, but did not report their concerns to higher authorities. Rather, these staff hoped he would disappear, into Fort Hood and then [...]

2 life sentences for convicted Carson soldier

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Fort Carson soldier convicted of killing two people with an AK-47 was sentenced Thursday to two consecutive life terms in prison.
A judge in Colorado Springs also sentenced 25-year-old Jorma Falu-Vives to another 140 years for wounding a fellow soldier in another drive-by shooting.
A jury convicted the Iraq [...]

Soldier charged with making threat at school

SEDALIA, Mo. — The Pettis County prosecutor has charged a soldier who had been reported missing from Fort Leonard Wood with making a terrorist threat at a Sedalia high school.
Pettis County Sheriff, Kevin Bond, says 19-year-old Michael John Frederick of Kansas City was charged Thursday after being arrested in [...]

2010 Army Weapon Systems Handbook

The U.S. Army has published the latest edition of its Army Weapon Systems handbook, cataloging dozens of Army weapons with descriptive information, status updates, contractor relationships, and images.
“The systems listed in this book are not isolated, individual products,” the introduction says. “Rather, they are part of an integrated investment approach [...]

Ex-Army counterintelligence worker executed

JARRATT, Va. — A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by electrocution in over a year.
Larry Bill Elliott was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. He was convicted of [...]

Jurors decide soldier’s homicide case

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jurors are deciding the case of a Fort Carson soldier accused of killing two people in a drive-by shooting.
Attorneys for Jomar Falu-Vives said in closing arguments Tuesday that the Iraq war veteran’s AK-47 was used to kill 18-year-old Amairany Cervantes and 20-year-old Cesar Ramirez-Ibanez last year as they [...]

Beat anti-military bias with these replies to ‘loaded’ questions Now !!!

You know all too well the value of your military service. You’ve spent years getting high-tech training and developing leadership, problem-solving and project-management skills. You’re reliable, disciplined and mature.
The trouble is that the person who will decide whether to hire you for that coveted civilian job may not have a military [...]

America Owned by Its Army

Paris, November 3, 2009 – It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected [...]

SF soldier arrested after C-4 found near house

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Special Forces soldier was arrested Monday after a pair of hunters found about 100 pounds of explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell.
Timothy Ryan Richards was charged with possessing two unregistered guns, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Eric Kehn said he [...]

Fairchild instructor charged with rape

A former soldier who teaches at the US Air Force Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., is accused of taking a date into the school and raping her, choking her unconscious at one point.
Michael W. Fassbender, 32, of Spokane faces one count of first-degree rape in the alleged [...]

Spc. reaches plea deal in death of soldier

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An Army paratrooper charged after he helped subdue a fellow soldier who later died has agreed to a plea bargain that could give him 30 days in jail and dock his pay.
Spc. Joseph Misuraca of Harper Woods, Mich., was the fourth soldier to make a deal in [...]

Testimony starts in murder trial of Carson GI

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Testimony is set to begin Friday in the trial of a Fort Carson soldier accused of killing two people and wounding another in drive-by shootings.
Prosecutors say Iraq war veteran Jomar Falu-Vives called his assault rifle “his toy.”
During opening arguments, Deputy District Attorney Diana Kay May said [...]

Los Angeles County deputy found dead in forest committed suicide

Authorities said Tuesday that the death of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy whose body was found in the Cleveland National Forest after a massive search last week has been ruled a suicide.
An autopsy performed on Zoltan Richard Tombol, 42, of Yorba Linda, showed that he died of a [...]

Ex-recruiter gets 3 years on child sex charges

DEADWOOD, S.D. — A former Army recruiter has been sentenced to three years in prison for rape and possession of child pornography stemming from a relationship with a Lead-Deadwood High School student he met online.
Authorities said Juan Otero of Chicago was arrested Feb. 12 at a hotel room after dropping [...]

How Washington Learned to Love Nonviolence

Nonviolence can be a major force for democratic social change, but not when it becomes a tool for covert intervention.
A close-cropped, no-nonsense infantry officer, Col. Robert Helvey was studying at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs on an Army fellowship. One day in 1987, he happened upon a seminar led by Gene [...]

Community Groups vs. Military Recruiters

Military recruiters today have unprecedented access to students and other young people, particularly in poor neighborhoods. There are generally more Army recruiters at high schools than there are college counselors, says Elmer Roldan, fundraising director at Community Coalition of South Central Los Angeles, and there is “a more [...]

Military Children in Crisis

A seven-year-old second-grader attempted suicide while his father was serving yet another tour in Iraq. Seven years old. Seven. His mother was one of half a dozen military spouses I have spoken with about soldiers’ kids who have attempted suicide during their fathers’ deployments.
When I was seven, it was 1972, and [...]

Military Recruiters: Criminal, Abusive or Suspect Activity

Eight-year Chronological Review of Public Reports as of August 28, 2009 Compiled by Learning Not Recruiting – Toledo, Ohio
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Soldiers broke law in Alabama shooting response

SAMSON, Ala. — An Army investigation found that soldiers should not have been sent to man traffic stops in a small Alabama town after 11 people were killed in March during a shooting spree.
An Army report released to The Associated Press on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information [...]

Military Drug Abuse: It Can’t Function Without It

(MOLALLA, Ore.) – The Oregonian reported this on Sept. 7, 2009. This should surprise nobody. Recruits historically are TRAINED to use alcohol and tobacco from their first weeks in boot camp, at least in the Army. If it wasn’t for the beer tranquilizer in the PX the rookies probably couldn’t survive [...]

Troops reportedly popping more painkillers

WASHINGTON — Narcotic pain-relief prescriptions for injured U.S. troops have jumped from 30,000 a month to 50,000 since the Iraq war began, raising concerns about the drugs’ potential abuse and addiction, says a leading Army pain expert.
The sharp rise in outpatient prescriptions paid for by the government suggests doctors rely [...]

Preschoolers with parent at war are more aggressive, study finds

CHICAGO — Preschoolers with a parent away at war were more likely to show aggression than other young children in military families, according to the first published research on how the very young react to wartime deployment.
Hitting, biting and hyperactivity — “the behaviors parents really notice” — were more frequent when [...]

Trial underway in Robin Sage shooting lawsuit

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A former soldier said Wednesday he believed that the deputy who initiated a fateful traffic stop in 2002 was part of an Army role-playing exercise — a belief broken only when the officer fired two fatal shots at a Special Forces colleague.
In testimony that ranged from tearful [...]

Army considers middle-school JROTC program

WICHITA, Kan. — The U.S. Army wants middle school students.
The Wichita school district in south-central Kansas is one of a few nationwide offering middle school programs based on the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps curriculum. Top Army officials are studying its programs to see if they could be a model [...]

2 Army enlistees accused of killing female soldier

BARSTOW, CALIF. — Two men who served in the Army are accused of killing a fellow servicewoman in San Bernardino County.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Bell says 23-year-old Melvin Satcher of Barstow and 22-year-old Phillip Franke of Las Vegas were arrested Monday.
Both are accused of killing 29-year-old Sandi Duncan, whose body was found [...]

Authorities: Marine confessed to killing wife

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A Marine charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife had confessed to the killing in a 911 call, police said Tuesday.
Cpl. Cody Daniel Richardson, 22, of Carroll, N.H., was charged in the death of his 21-year-old wife, Jessy, Jacksonville police said. He was [...]

US soldiers shoot and kill Iraqi shoe thrower

American soldiers have killed an Iraqi civilian after he hurled his shoe at their military convoy in the central city of Fallujah.
Witnesses say US troops opened fire on Ahmed Latif, who was mentally disturbed, after he insulted the soldiers as they patrolled in the centre of the city.
US troops, however, claim [...]

US military pulls plug on largest prison in Iraq

The American army has decided to shut down Camp Bucca in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra as it moves to release thousands or transfer them to Iraqi custody before the year end.
All the remaining 180 detainees of the facility, located just north of the Kuwaiti border, were transferred to US [...]

Former Army official sentenced in bribery case

ATLANTA — An ex-Army official and a former military contractor have been sentenced to federal prison on charges of bribery of a public official, wire fraud and money laundering.

Richard E. Long, 63, and Mack S. Smith, 56, were sentenced Monday in connection with the scheme.
Long was a civilian manager of [...]

Army’s Shopping Mall Game Center Shut Down By Protests

(The Intelligence Daily) — The Army Experience Center, an amusement hall built in a Philadelphia area shopping mall to make killing and dying look like fun to kids, has been the focus of repeated protests and criticism.  This past weekend hundreds again protested at the AEC, and police arrested six [...]

Campbell soldier charged in fatal car crash

COVINGTON, Ky. — A Fort Campbell soldier who was behind the wheel of a car when it crashed and killed his friend is facing criminal charges.
The Kentucky Enquirer reports that Erlanger police charged 26-year-old Riley Ealy with driving under the influence, second-degree manslaughter and wanton endangerment.
Police say Ealy was on [...]

Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds

As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.

U.S. public [...]

Biologists napping while work militarized

As researchers discover more agents that alter mental states, the Chemical Weapons Convention needs modification to help ensure that the life sciences are not used for hostile purposes, says Malcolm Dando.
In October 2002, Chechen rebel fighters held more than 750 people hostage at a Nord-Ost production in a theatre in [...]

Convicted Special Forces GI on the Lam

VILSECK, Germany — A manhunt is under way for a U.S. Special Forces soldier who fled after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a German woman.
Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart — who was found guilty of multiple charges including kidnapping, forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual assault of a woman [...]

Ex-Army surgeon facing probe leaves university

ST. LOUIS — A Washington University School of Medicine surgeon and researcher has resigned amid allegations that he falsified results of a study.
The university says in a statement that Dr. Timothy Kuklo submitted a resignation letter effective Sept. 30. He will have no clinical, research or educational duties during his [...]

Worldwide Fuze Identification Guide Dec, 1997

August 18, 2009
Summary
Restricted 336 page book by the US Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) on the identification of explosive fuzes. December 1997. The book covers most arms making countries.

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Suicide soars among US soldiers

As the US government throws its weight about the globe, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children fall before Uncle Sam’s swinging scythe.
But, those at the cutting edge of the scythe are falling too, often by their own hands, in the inescapable confines of their homes or quarters in the [...]

Army Sgt. faces hearing in 1985 murders case

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military judge will hear motions in the case of an Army sergeant recalled to duty after retirement so he could be tried for a 1985 triple slaying.
Tuesday’s motion hearing for Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis will deal with a defense motion to ban two eyewitness identifications [...]

Police: Pfc. pulled trigger in cartel killing

EL PASO, Texas — An 18-year-old U.S. soldier was the triggerman in a paid hit on a Mexican drug cartel figure who was also an informant for the U.S. drug enforcement agency, police said Tuesday in announcing the arrests of the soldier and two alleged co-conspirators.
Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, who was [...]

Ex-captain pleads guilty to $39 million fuel theft plot

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federal prosecutors say a former U.S. Army captain has pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to steal $39 million worth of fuel from the Army in Iraq.
Robert Young, 46, a U.S. citizen who lived in the Philippines, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and theft of [...]

Soldier suspected of sodomizing dog

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — Army officials are investigating a claim that a Fort Wainwright soldier sodomized a dachshund that needed treatment at an animal hospital.
A Fort Wainwright spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday because the investigation remains active. The soldier’s name hasn’t been released because he hasn’t been charged.
The alleged incident [...]

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE MILITARY COUP IN HONDURAS

You can learn more about the military coup at Democracy Now!   Join the School of Americas Watch as they encourage the State Department to take action to support democracy in Honduras.

The Army denies that combat stress causes homicide

July 16, 2009 | FORT CARSON, Colo. — The harsh combat in Iraq, including potential war crimes that were witnessed by soldiers, contributed to a series of brutal murders by soldiers based at this Army post near Colorado Springs after they returned home, according to a hard-hitting Army study released [...]

From recruiting to rape

Anti-war advocates aren’t surprised by shocking abuse charges
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Prosecutors have set a $1 million bail for a U.S. Marine charged with pimping, kidnapping, and intending to rape a 14-year-old girl.
Reports indicate that Staff Sgt. Bryan Damone Cunningham, of San Pedro, California was previously honored three times for good conduct.
Military [...]

1 in 8 combat troops needs alcohol counseling

One in eight troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2008 were referred for counseling for alcohol problems after their post-deployment health assessments, according to data from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center.
Service members complete their initial health assessments within 30 days of returning home.
The authors of the [...]

2 Marines indicted in Army nurse death in NC

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Two Camp Lejeune Marines have been indicted in the killing of an Army nurse whose burned and dismembered remains were found in a shallow North Carolina grave last summer.
The Cumberland County deputy clerk’s office said Friday a grand jury indicted Cpl. John Wimunc and Cpl. Kyle Alden earlier this [...]

Clouds of Secrecy

Military Accepting Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Probe Finds

Raw Story | The US military has effectively adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning white supremacists and neo-Nazis in an effort to bolster recruiting and retention, an article published Monday says.
Numerous articles have detailed the Army’s recruiting woes in the wake of two ongoing US wars [...]

Riley soldier charged with rapes

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — A 19-year-old Fort Riley soldier is charged with several abductions that resulted in the rapes of at least two women Junction City.
Police say charges in three similar Manhattan cases are expected to be filed next week.
Junction City Police arrested Tony Tremayne Lewis at the Army post early [...]