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Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 4:15 p.m. EST on November 11, 2025, to reflect new information from official court filings and witness statements. FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Sergeant Major Daniel Paul Deen, 41, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, is scheduled to face a General Court-Martial…
For the first time, the City of Killeen, Texas, has released dash cam video from the night the man accused of killing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen took his life. The Salty Soldier obtained this footage, shedding new light on the final moments of a man whose actions forever changed the U.S. military. In the…
An updated version of this article has been published here: FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Sergeant Major Daniel Paul Deen, 41, is set to face a General Court-Martial at Fort Bragg on November 13, 2025, following a series of domestic violence convictions and prior criminal cases in North Carolina that span more than two decades. Deen’s…
A former U.S. Army intelligence sergeant from Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for attempting to deliver national defense information to the Chinese government, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, pleaded guilty in June to two felony counts — attempting to deliver…
WEST POINT, N.Y. — Cadet Cayden N. Cork, once celebrated in his Florida hometown for his academic excellence and family legacy of service, is now facing a General Court-Martial (GCM) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. According to official Army court records, Cork is charged with Article 127 (Extortion), three specifications of Article…
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — An Army colonel previously acquitted in Kansas civilian court of sexually abusing two young relatives is now facing a military court-martial for those same allegations—and additional accusations involving two more minors. Col. Scott C. Nauman, 53, is being tried before a panel of officers at Fort Leavenworth from November 3 to…
KILLEEN, TX – A Fort Hood soldier’s wife has joined her husband in the Bell County Jail more than two years after their infant daughter was found dead in a Killeen home under what investigators described as “severe malnourishment.” On September 11, 2022, Killeen police responded to a call from the Rainers’ residence, where they…
FORT HOOD, Texas — A military doctor at Fort Hood’s Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center has been suspended amid horrifying allegations that he secretly recorded and inappropriately touched female patients — many of them soldiers and military family members — during OB-GYN exams. Multiple law firms are now representing victims who say the doctor…
A newly surfaced law-enforcement disclosure has revealed that the FBI seized what it described as a “manifesto” written by an active-duty Green Beret, citing national-security concerns. The document — recovered by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department after the January 1, 2025 explosion of a rented Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas…
Editor’s Note: This article has been edited to comply with advertiser content policies.The full uncensored investigative version, including direct evidence and explicit Reddit excerpts, is available at TheSaltySoldierUncensored.com A Reddit user claiming to be an Army soldier stationed at Fort Campbell has drawn attention for posting what appear to be private and possibly non-consensual images…
