Posted By: D.N. Shropshire, MA Suicides Among Army ranks has increased significantly during the last few months, despite the extraction of some U.S. troops. 25 self inflicted deaths were reported this month alone. The Army release did not give any possible reasons for the spike, but the reality is that the troops want to come […]

U.S. Military Officials confirmed 13 people were killed and 30 wounded in the worst mass shooting at a U.S. military base in history. Authorities say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. citizen with Jordanian parents, opened fired on an unarmed crowd Thursday afternoon at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center. The center is where soldiers prepare […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: Joseph Hairston enlisted in the Army in 1940 as an 18-year-old and still remembers the cold stares and disgusted gazes of his white commanding officers. Hairston, 87, served in the 599th Field Artillery Battalion and became one of the Army’s first black commissioned officers. He deployed to Italy in 1944 and, like […]