Another High-Profile Firing at West Point, This Time Due to Criminal Sexual Conduct Allegations A senior civilian staffer at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has been fired after being arrested on a felony charge...
Naval Academy Hit with Latest Lawsuit Opposing Race-Based Admissions as Group Targets Military Schools The same group that won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against universities has also filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Military...
Army Quietly Relieved Top Officer of West Point Garrison Following a Suspension in July The former commander of the U.S. Army Garrison at the West Point service academy, Col. Anthony Bianchi, was fired from his...
Service Academies Honor Law Allowing Cadets to Have Kids Even as Pentagon Policy Lags The military service academies are all following the spirit of a nearly one-year-old law that allows cadets and Midshipmen...
Not Just Silt: West Point's Time Capsule Actually Contained Some Historical Artifacts The 194-year-old West Point time capsule that was opened this week and originally believed to contain only silt produced a...
West Point Opens 200-Year-Old Time Capsule and Finds … Silt? West Point had been building anticipation for nearly two weeks over the planned opening of the time capsule.
Advocacy Group Targets Race Consideration in Military Academy Admissions The military academies of the Army, Navy and Air Force are bracing for a drawn-out court fight over whether they can continue...
I Was Thrown Out of the Army Under the Old Standards Because I Was Too Fit. The New Standards Are a Step Forward. I was under threat of separation for being too fat, or rather, for being too muscular, because the tape test that was in use...
West Point Suspends Garrison Commander Amid Ongoing Investigation It was unclear why Bianchi was suspended or whether an interim commander has been appointed.
Military Academies Exempted from Supreme Court Ruling Ending Affirmative Action The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, said in a footnote that this policy would not impact how...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
