NEW: 81 more women have joined a lawsuit against Army gynecologist Maj. Blaine McGraw.
“McGraw did not thrive because he was clever; he thrived because he operated within an Army culture that has repeatedly failed to protect women from sexual violence," the lawsuit says.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/p...
As the US military’s Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat has come under increased scrutiny by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle & military legal experts, the Trump administration’s explanation has shifted.
A timeline of the administration's explanation --
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
The death toll of Israel’s war in Gaza, according to this investigation, includes 266 entire nuclear families (two parents and their children) of three, 192 entire nuclear families of four, 171 of five, 121 of six, 50 of seven, 17 of eight, 10 of nine, 3 of eleven, and 1 of fourteen.
“Dear Sweet Baby Jesus,” said one former senior US official, reacting to the reporting.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...
Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault, & suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands that have been either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites amid a DOD purge of "diversity" content.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/p...
The Pentagon is scrapping its social science research portfolio, including our Minerva grant on climate change in the Sahel. "We don’t gain by not understanding other parts of the world” @leonardovillalon.bsky.social told @cnn.com. “Ignorance is not a solution” www.cnn.com/2025/03/09/p...
As the DOD and DOGE set their sights on cutting climate-related programs, officials & experts warn slashing them could put US troops and military operations at risk
“I think they’re stuck on the word ‘climate’ and not seeing the operational impacts,” one US official said
www.cnn.com/2025/03/09/p...
@halbritz.bsky.social reports: "Officials who spoke to CNN pointed to a number of programs within the Defense Department that could technically be tagged as climate-related but have real operational impacts on the military." www.cnn.com/2025/03/09/p...
Hegseth orders immediate pause on all medical procedures for transgender troops + a pause on bringing in new recruits with gender dysphoria.
"Individuals with gender dysphoria have volunteered to serve our country and will be treated with dignity and respect," he says.
“It is a shameful, vile, unprecedented way to treat public servants, whose safety is at stake following vicious, defamatory Musk statements,” said one USAID official.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
The Army Women's Museum website is temporarily offline "to ensure compliance with recent Executive Orders" as it undergoes "additional content review." Museum is still operating.
Photo 1: Homepage in Nov 2024 via Wayback Machine
2: Screenshot this morning
3: A few moments ago
As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, attorneys at DHS and DOD were still trying to determine whether flying migrants there from the US southern border was legal.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...
Afghans who worked directly for or on behalf of the US government in Afghanistan have been cut off from critical resources and face uncertainty over whether they’ll be able to travel to the US after a pair of Trump directives
w/ @halbritz.bsky.social & Priscilla Alvarez
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...
The Trump administration asked the military earlier this week to be prepared to deploy up to 10,000 active duty troops tot he border immediately, setting off a scramble inside the Pentagon.
The latest --
www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...
One active-duty soldier in the 82nd Airborne said his family in Afghanistan could be stuck after last night's executive order.
“[I]f I get deployed and killed overseas — which I would sacrifice my life to this country any time...she cannot come to my funeral."
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
Biden pardons Gen. Mark Milley in the final hours of his presidency — says public servants have been “subjected to ongoing threats and intimidation for faithfully discharging their duties.”
The pardon “should not be mistaken as an acknowledgement” of wrongdoing, Biden says.
In his final remarks today as SecDef, Lloyd Austin points to the military's commitment to the constitution — "[W]e are the United States military. We defend government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and we do not bend on matters of honor, integrity or law.”
New details on the Cybertruck explosion: Master Sgt. Livelsberger was diagnosed with depression last year but had not been assessed to be a risk of violence or suicide, two US officials tell me and @natashabertrand.bsky.social
Army records show that Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger had five Bronze Stars, including one with valor device which is awarded for valor in combat. He also received an Army Commendation Medal with Valor and multiple other achievement, commendation, and good conduct awards.
NEW: The man connected to the rental of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas yesterday is an active-duty Special Forces operations sergeant, who was on leave from Germany where he was serving with 10th SFG, according to multiple US officials.
A Navy spokesperson also confirmed that he briefly enlisted in the Navy — enlisted in August 2004 but was discharged from the delayed entry program a month later in September 2004.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man suspected of killing now at least 15 people in New Orleans, served on active duty and in the Army Reserve from 2007 to 2020 as an HR and IT specialist. He deployed once to Afghanistan in 2009, according to his record. Left service as a staff sergeant.
The banana pudding maker has logged on
“Why don’t we have a single POC who is responsible for coordination across all organizations in the government to address this?” retired NORAD/NORTHCOM cmdr Gen. Glen VanHerck said. “Instead, everybody’s pointing their fingers at each other saying it’s not our responsibility.”
A series of drone sightings over US military bases has renewed concerns that there isn’t clear government-wide policy for dealing w/ incursions inside the US
The issue “has been brewing for over a decade and we have basically failed to address it.”
www.cnn.com/2024/12/21/p...
Pentagon spox MG Pat Ryder says today that the number of US troops in Syria is actually around 2,000 — more than double the number of troops that has been disclosed. They've been there since before the fall of the Assad regime, he said; he learned the number just today.
Do you really want to know
In 2019, I covered a government shutdown through the eyes of Coast Guard families, whose paychecks were withheld.
One woman I interviewed for that story cried while speaking to me. Another said she had cried repeatedly.
Real people get caught in the middle in these moments.
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