
Chad Garland
Writer and Photographer at Freelance
Marine vet journalist tweeting on military, culture & military culture. | “Upstart" - @WilliamShatner. | ❤️, 🔁, 🔗 ≠ gov't endorsement. 😏
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Oct 18, 2024 |
chadgarland.com | Chad Garland
Six years ago, reporter Paul Szoldra broke a story about an insider attack in Syria that military news website Task and Purpose hyped as one of the things “the Pentagon denies ever happened.”Paul reported that two Marines at a remote outpost in Syria, Sgt. Cameron Halkovich and Cpl. Kane Downey, had just begun their rounds as sergeant and corporal of the guard, when one of the Syrian partner force members fired on the men, hitting Halkovich twice in the leg.
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Mar 28, 2024 |
chadgarland.com | Chad Garland
During a 2018 firefight, the leader of a team of Army Rangers on patrol in southeastern Afghanistan used his body to shield a U.S. crew in the cockpit of a medical evacuation helicopter from enemy machine gun fire. It would cost him his life. “His final display of bravery, courage, and selfless devotion to his troops is the most honorable thing I have witnessed,” said a fellow Ranger, a seasoned combat veteran, in a written account of the battle. Sgt.
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Mar 18, 2024 |
chadgarland.com | Chad Garland
Things began to unravel in the summer of 2015. By that Christmas, Sergeant First Class Johnnie Johnson would be gone, never to be heard from again. Sometime in spring 2015, Johnson told a friend that he’d listed her as a reference for a background check related to his secret security clearance. But he was stressed. When she asked him why, he hesitated. Later, he said that if the investigators asked whether he was married, she should say yes.
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Aug 22, 2023 |
chadgarland.com | Chad Garland
Phone calls—and donations—poured in last month at a nonprofit that helped the family of a slain Marine transport her remains after a since-discredited Fox News story prompted questions and outrage, show records the Marine Corps released under the Freedom of Information Act. Sgt.
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Aug 1, 2023 |
chadgarland.com | Chad Garland
A New York Army National Guard soldier and two Naval Militia Marines rushed to the aid of a 23-year-old asylum-seeker who slashed her wrist early on July 22 at the Holiday Inn Queens. The migrant woman appeared in the hotel lobby where the three members of the New York Military Forces were on duty at the front desk, the military said in a statement Tuesday. They heard someone call for help and responded immediately, said Staff Sgt. Adam Perez of the New York Army National Guard.
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