Tag: Army
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a…
It has been a tough season for U.S. military recruiters. In June, the Navy issued and then rescinded an order requiring its recruiters to work six days a week. The Air Force lifted a long-standing…
Note: Paul Zirjacks, age 86, is a retired Army veteran who served 30 years and reached the rank of Sergeant Major. During my U.S. Army career, my late wife, Judy, and I spent many years…
DE SOTO — U.S. Army base closure personnel responsible for the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant offered Wednesday the first update in three years on costly remediation of soil, water, buildings and drainage pipes contaminated…
Shauna Berntsen was 17 in 2001. She spent that summer in basic training, just before beginning her senior year of high school. Within weeks, on Sept. 11, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the…
Jerry Dodson, who grew up in Elsmore, was selected to participate in a wreath laying ceremony earlier this month at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Dodson, a command sergeant major in the U.S. Army…
Kyle Griffeth, who served as an Army bomb tech in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011, worries about what happens next in the country now that the Taliban has taken control. He knows it’s typical for…
Leaning back in his chair with his 11-year-old dog Patches on his lap, Iolan Paul Zirjacks keeps track of the worlds events through numerous newspapers as well as a subscription to The Army Times. He…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita State Universitys aviation research program has landed a $33 million contract for the Armys high-speed missile program. The Wichita Eagle reports the three-year contract calls for the National Institute for…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An explosion ripped through a mosque inside an Afghan army base in the countrys volatile eastern Khost province as todays prayers were drawing to a close, killing 27 soldiers and wounding…
