Independent military reporting for those who’ve served — and won’t stay silent.
A senior U.S. Army noncommissioned officer is drawing scrutiny after posting celebratory — and confrontational — social media content following her promotion to Sergeant First Class (E-7), a rank typically associated with more than a decade of service. In an Instagram post published over the weekend, the soldier wrote that she “made SFC (E7) in…
A former U.S. Army officer who began military service as a male and was born male, and who later began medical transition while on active duty, appears to have taken direct aim at Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, using social media to mock his physical fitness after being separated from the Army. In a recent…
Editor’s Note: This guest article reflects the author’s reporting and analysis. It addresses a disputed historical event and draws on on-the-record interviews and publicly available sources. The Salty Soldier does not independently adjudicate competing accounts related to the Abbottabad raid. By Benjamin Reed I spoke with Rob O’Neill recently about a dispute that, more than…