Independent military reporting for those who’ve served — and won’t stay silent.
It sounds like a fantasy: anonymous, no-strings-attached sex offered freely to American service members, often with promises of secrecy and zero expectation of reciprocation. But what if it’s not a fantasy at all? What if it’s a trap? In an age where smartphones and social media dominate daily life, U.S. military personnel have become increasingly…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New details and photographic evidence released by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) under New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) have shed light on the controversial February 22 shooting of Airman Basic Brion Teel-Scott by fellow Air Force security forces members near Kirtland Air Force Base. The rare public release includes…
An airman assigned to Ellsworth Air Force Base who was found dead earlier this month has been publicly identified as Staff Sergeant Lonzell Bryant, 25, of Andalusia, Alabama. According to base officials, Bryant was discovered deceased at his off-base residence on Tuesday, September 2. He served as an aerospace propulsion craftsman with the 28th Maintenance…
Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz was just 25 years old when his B-24 Liberator was blasted out of the sky over Nazi-occupied France in 1943. Alone, injured, and behind enemy lines, the Bronx-born Jew spent the next six months evading capture by the Gestapo with the help of the French Resistance. Now, his harrowing story is…
In a major shake-up of the Pentagon’s drone defense efforts, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Army to dismantle its Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) and stand up a new warfighting organization: Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401). The move comes as part of the Trump administration’s wider campaign to restore…
A leaked photo, which appears to have originated from Snapchat and shows a Security Forces Airman on duty at Creech Air Force Base, is spreading across social media and raising fresh concerns about conduct, safety, and the already shaken morale within the Air Force’s defender community. The image shows a Black female Airman at a…
The Air Force has two rising names in the ranks — and coincidentally, both are named Ciara. What sets them apart isn’t just their careers in uniform, but the way they’ve each turned to social media and subscriber platforms to build personal brands. Senior Airman Ciarra Capurro: Transformation and Online Attention Senior Airman Ciarra Capurro’s…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — F.E. Warren Air Force Base is facing another tragedy, as a second airman has been killed in less than a month. Both deaths involved security forces defenders, and in both cases, a fellow airman pulled the trigger. The most recent victim, Senior Airman Joshua Aragon, 23, was shot and killed in the…
Editor’s note: The TikTok videos originally embedded in this article have since been made private. To preserve context, we have included screenshots captured while the videos were publicly available. When Sergeant Michaela Sosville, formerly Michaela Faherty, left her job as a Starbucks barista in Los Angeles to join the Air Force in 2017, she probably…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The fatal shooting of an Air Force Security Forces airman by members of his own squadron outside Kirtland Air Force Base in February remains under investigation by multiple agencies, including the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the FBI, and Albuquerque Police Department (APD). Airman Basic Brion Teel-Scott, 28, was killed…