Russia Asks US for Help with IEDs at Olympics Russian officials have asked the U.S. for help in detecting and dismantling improvised explosive devices at the Olympics.
Pentagon's New Role for JIEDDO Counter-IED Agency The Joint IED Defeat Organization will have its funding and personnel cut in a diminished role at the Defense Department.
Carter Awards DoD’s Improvised Explosive Device Agency Unit Award Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the Joint Meritorious Unit Award to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat...
Pentagon Identifies Sailor Killed Supporting Mosul Offensive The DoD has released the name of a decorated sailor killed in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Iraq.
1st Cav Soldiers Among 4 Americans Killed in Afghanistan The U.S. Defense Department identified the two soldiers killed by a suicide bomber at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Scholarship Fund to Honor Soldier Killed by IED in Iraq Friends have started a scholarship fund to honor Army 1st Lt. Weston Lee.
NATO Soldier Killed in Suicide Attack North of Kabul A NATO soldier was killed in a suicide attack a day after two U.S. troops in a NATO convoy were killed near Kandahar.
Pentagon Identifies Soldier Killed in Iraq from 10th Mountain Division Spc. Alexander W. Missildine, 20, died Oct. 1 as a result of injuries sustained when an IED detonated near his convoy.
Deadliest IED Back on Iraq Battlefield The roadside bomb that killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq last week was an explosively formed penetrator, a top U.S. general said.
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...