The Army on Friday dropped its case against the fifth and final soldier it accused of murdering Afghan civilians during a 2010 deployment with a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade.
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord lieutenant from Wisconsin was killed in Afghanistan Wednesday while leading a foot patrol in Kandahar Province.
The U.S. Army plans to slash the number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32 in a broad restructuring of its fighting force aimed at cutting costs and reducing the service by about 80,000 soldiers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans.
The Army is nearing the end of its investigation into missing weapons accessories at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and it is releasing about 100 soldiers who have been kept under lockdown for the past six days.
NEW YORK – Even before the Army sent him to Afghanistan, supporters say, Pvt. Daniel Chen was fighting a personal war.
The Army has recorded its first combat deaths in new “double V” hull Strykers that were designed to provide better protection against improvised explosives, according to an update on the vehicle in Stars and Stripes newspaper.
It’s looking more likely that Joint Base Lewis-McChord will have thousands of soldiers from two Stryker brigades deployed in Afghanistan at the same time, though the Army has not made it official.
One of Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Stryker brigades is headed to southern Afghanistan for a yearlong deployment while hundreds of its soldiers remain behind.
Soldiers who fought alongside Spc. Brandon Barrett for a year in Afghanistan had no clue where they could find him two months after they came home to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the summer of 2010.
The Army on Friday won its 11th conviction in its investigation of war crimes involving Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers, securing a guilty verdict against a sergeant who could have halted the wrongdoing that unfolded but instead tried to cover it up.
The Army on Friday won its 11th conviction in its investigation of war crimes involving Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers, securing a guilty verdict against a sergeant who could have halted the wrongdoing that unfolded but instead tried to cover it up.
A 27-year-old staff sergeant who supervised soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians last year is expected to face a court-martial today where he could be sentenced to 17 years in prison for a mix of assault and conspiracy charges.
The past seven days of testimony in the Army’s court-martial of alleged Stryker “kill team” ringleader Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs have not been easy on the stomach.
An Army prosecutor today charged that alleged “kill team” ringleader Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs betrayed his oath to the Army, his unit and his country when he led a rogue group of soldiers in schemes to murder three Afghan civilians last year.
Few soldiers have clean hands in the Army’s case against alleged “kill team” ringleader Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs. The witnesses against the Stryker soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord make up a lineup of admitted war criminals and leaders who looked the other way as offenses unfolded on patrols in Afghanistan.
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