Steve Beynon

1 week ago | military.com | Thomas Novelly |Konstantin Toropin |Steve Beynon

As thousands of National Guardsmen and hundreds of Marines descended on Los Angeles this month on White House orders amid immigration raid protests, Marcos Leao was just trying to run some errands. The 27-year-old Army veteran, wearing sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt, thought he had spare time to grab some paperwork from the Department of Veterans Affairs. While listening to music on his headphones, he took a shortcut around the Wilshire Federal Building by brushing past some police tape.

1 week ago | military.com | Steve Beynon

The Army on Friday identified the soldier killed in an AH-64 Apache helicopter crash last week near the Kentucky-Tennessee border as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright, a pilot assigned to the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade. Wright, 40, was conducting a routine training mission alongside another pilot when their aircraft went down around 7 p.m. on June 11, according to a statement released by Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Emergency responders pronounced Wright dead at the scene.

1 week ago | military.com | Steve Beynon

For many soldiers, the Army's 250th birthday parade in Washington, D.C., on Saturday was a celebration they managed to divorce from its politically charged backdrop, including its overlap with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday and the president's deployment of troops against protesters in Los Angeles. "This was about us, not him," one senior noncommissioned officer told Military.com.

2 weeks ago | military.com | Steve Beynon

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2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Steve Beynon

The Army has quietly shuttered a short-lived Defense Department office dedicated to safeguarding civilians in conflict zones, less than two years after its founding, according to a service document reviewed by Military.com. The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which once housed roughly 30 staff, has been folded into the Army's dense web of unrelated bureaucratic policy shops. One Army official described the shift as part of a larger streamlining effort.