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Suspect in Hood shootings remains in coma
Suspect in Hood shootings remains in coma
FORT HOOD, Texas — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that...
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  • Soldiers say carnage could have been worse
    FORT HOOD, Texas — Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 19:52:11 EST
  • Authorities: Lejeune pvt. killed colleague
    JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A Marine private accused of killing another Marine at Camp Lejeune, N.C., was taken into custody Friday, base officials said.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 15:45:30 EST
  • Obama makes the rounds at Walter Reed
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spent nearly two hours visiting wounded U.S. service members Friday afternoon.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 18:43:47 EST
  • Perot pledges $6.1m to Leavenworth institution
    FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot has pledged $6.1 million to a private foundation to pay for programs at the Army’s Command and...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 18:19:00 EST
  • War of words heats up over vets bill blockage
    The chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee remains hopeful that a roadblock holding up consideration of an omnibus veterans’ health care bill can be cleared early next week.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 14:26:56 EST
  • Military’s stance on burn pits assailed
    The Air Force bioenvironmental officer who was among the first to warn about the potential effects of open-air burn pits on U.S. troops deployed in the war zones said Friday that he does not believe...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 15:23:14 EST
  • Obama: Do not jump to conclusions about Hood
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the "whole nation is grieving right now" over the mass killings at Fort Hood. He urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officials...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 12:32:06 EST
  • Memorial to be held for crash victims
    SAN DIEGO — A memorial service will be held Friday for the seven Coast Guardsmen and two Marines killed when an airplane collided with a Marine helicopter off the coast of San Diego.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 13:49:20 EST
  • 82nd Airborne soldiers missing in Afghanistan
    KABUL — Two American soldiers disappeared in western Afghanistan after a routine resupply mission, and more than 25 NATO and Afghan security forces members were wounded during the search...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 14:05:02 EST
  • Air Force, Army teams to recognize Hood victims
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Air Force Academy will hold a moment of silence in memory of the Fort Hood shooting victims before Saturday’s Army-Air Force game at Falcon Stadium.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 11:55:23 EST
  • Details on Fort Hood suspect emerge
    WASHINGTON — His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Afghanistan and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 19:13:29 EST
  • Muslim group condemns Hood shootings
    WASHINGTON — The Council on American-Islamic Relations is condemning the shootings at Fort Hood, although it’s not known whether the shooter was Muslim.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 19:42:49 EST
  • Online support follows Hood shootings
    A flood of support is hitting the Army’s social media sites in the wake of the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 19:17:02 EST
  • Sources: USNA subbed mids to look more diverse
    Naval Academy leaders removed two midshipmen from a color guard that performed at the World Series last week because they were white men, and replaced them with a non-white man and a white woman so...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 13:52:24 EST
  • SF soldier in C-4 stockpile case leaves jail
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An Army Special Forces soldier who admitted to stockpiling military-grade explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell was released from jail into the custody of his wife.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 21:44:17 EST
  • Airman among 6 killed in Mexico bar shooting
    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 14:33:24 EST
  • USAA now open to honorably discharged vets
    USAA has expanded its customer base to include all honorably discharged veterans and their families, making about 35 million more people eligible for membership.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 14:07:47 EST
  • Report: Vets need drug treatment, not jail
    Treatment, not incarceration, should be the first option for veterans who commit nonviolent drug-related offenses, a group advocating alternatives to the nation’s “war on drugs”...
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 14:25:31 EST
  • American Legion ups pressure on Coburn
    The American Legion is organizing a grassroots campaign in Oklahoma to try to persuade Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to lift his hold on S 1963, an omnibus veterans bill, so it can be approved and...
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 13:39:38 EST
  • 2 soldiers die in separate incidents in Iraq
    BAGHDAD — The military says two soldiers have died in Iraq — one in combat and one of noncombat-related injuries.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 13:37:23 EST
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