A longtime Army recruiter who served at recruiting stations across Michigan and eventually became a station chief was scheduled to face trial by special court-martial at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Army’s public court docket identifies the accused as Sgt. 1st Class Michael V. Roberts, whom publicly available records identify as the station chief of the…
Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green is shown while serving as command chief at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, on Sept. 4, 2019, left, and during a chief’s induction ceremony in Tampa on Jan. 31, 2020, right. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman 1st Class Ryan C. Grossklag and Airman 1st Class Shannon Bowman) A former…
A Marine Corps intelligence warrant officer previously charged with assaulting his spouse and a child in Okinawa has been sentenced to two years in confinement after pleading guilty to domestic violence and child endangerment. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Benjamin G. Dux was sentenced Aug. 5 following a general court-martial before a military judge. Despite the…
A missing 15-year-old Pennsylvania girl was found in the basement of a home rented by a 27-year-old active-duty airman after investigators tracked his cellphone to Dover Air Force Base, according to a federal criminal complaint obtained by The Salty Soldier. The girl later told investigators that Dylan Drake Williams sexually assaulted her, recorded multiple encounters…
Buried in a 17-page federal indictment recently unsealed in New York is an alleged Russian murder plot that could have come straight out of a spy thriller. There are encrypted messages, photographs of a target’s home, a $40,000 offer to make him disappear—and a recruiter called “Viking.” Viewers of Paramount+’s The Agency may recognize the…
MOORE COUNTY, N.C. — More than a year after an Army Soldier was arrested while attending a leadership school at Fort Bragg, a Moore County grand jury has indicted him on felony charges stemming from allegations involving a 14-year-old girl. Dustin Ray Goodroe was indicted Aug. 3 on charges of first-degree kidnapping and soliciting a…
A 20-year-old Soldier’s mother says the Army knew he had attempted suicide in Germany but returned him to duty the next day without the intervention he needed. About seven months later, she says, he died by suicide in his barracks at Fort Stewart. Pfc. Canon Brooks Nalls, of Fayette, Alabama, died December 20, 2024. His…
An Army soldier stationed at Fort Campbell recently shared an account of a phone call to his platoon sergeant that raises a question beyond his battery: What does a leader’s invitation to speak up mean when a soldier challenges leadership’s own decisions? In a TikTok post shared Sept. 4, the soldier said his platoon sergeant…
Three months before Spc. Sayveon Anderson disappeared from Fort Bragg, his pregnant wife told police that he assaulted her and threatened to kill her before taking his own life, according to previously unreported court records obtained by The Salty Soldier. The records reveal a series of escalating incidents before Anderson vanished, including the alleged domestic…
An Air Force staff sergeant trusted to keep aircraft safe at Ramstein Air Base repeatedly tested positive for cocaine and stopped using the drug only after commanders restricted him to the installation, according to a sharply worded reprimand issued after his court-martial. Staff Sgt. (E-5) Jacob R. Van Pelt pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine and…
