Independent military reporting for those who’ve served — and won’t stay silent.
FORT LEE, Va. — A senior Army noncommissioned officer was convicted at a special court-martial after admitting he failed to properly handle a sexual harassment complaint involving two junior Soldiers in a training unit and later made false statements to senior leaders. Sgt. 1st Class Jared A. Kristoff, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, U.S….
A New York Army National Guard noncommissioned officer with a large social media following is drawing scrutiny after images circulating online appear to show her posing in explicit imagery while displaying what appears to be U.S. Army identification inside her phone case. The concerns raised by the images are not centered on the imagery itself,…
SAN FRANCISCO — Activist groups are planning to gather later today outside the Israeli Consulate in downtown San Francisco to mark the second anniversary of the death of Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. Air Force member who died in 2024 after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. The demonstration…
A U.S. Air Force senior airman accused of serious misconduct involving minors went to trial this week at McConnell Air Force Base, while a separate felony insurance fraud prosecution and an active civil debt lawsuit continue to move forward in Kansas state court. Senior Airman Randall Race Thomas Moore Jr., 26, assigned to the 22nd…
When an American service member dies overseas, particularly in a country where large-scale combat operations have largely ended, the expectation is not immediate certainty — but eventual answers. In the case of Spc. Travis Jordan Pameni, even that expectation went unmet. Army records show the administrative investigation into Pameni’s death was completed in November 2024….
