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Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...
Tags: Justice System, Military Justice, Lawyers, Civil Rights, Barack Obama
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Veterans quietly manage ear pain
On his two deployments to Iraq with the 18th Airborne Corps, Spc. Jon Michael Cripps spent more time keeping the Army's computers running than he did in combat, but he can't forget what he heard. The constant roar of generators, along with the hum of...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Bombings, Tinnitus, Earache, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Martin Guitar makes custom guitar for blind veteran
Lt. Brad Snyder holds the acoustic guitar in his arms for the first time, strumming a few random chords, then moving into a sampling of Neil Young. The sounds take him back to the nights when he was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and sat around a...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Music, Paralympic Games, Tom Petty, Hospitals and Clinics
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General Allen was leader at Naval Academy
When Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen overheard a platoon of first-year midshipmen at the Naval Academy shout "kill" during training one summer day a decade ago, he ordered the word expunged from their vocabulary. The then-commandant explained that...
Tags: NATO, Annapolis, Paula Broadwell, U.S. Department of Defense, Democratic Party
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Petraeus thought he was above the law
Gen. David Petraeus' actions over the past several years show that he considers himself more of a prince than a member of the armed forces who answers to his civilian commander-in-chief ("Did Petraeus have to step down?" Nov. 13). In Afghanistan, he...Tags: Justice System, Military Equipment, David Petraeus, Central Intelligence Agency, Afghanistan
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Ambassador to Syria keeps profile low in Bolton Hill
When the violence in Syria began spinning out of control last year, the Obama administration made the unusual decision to bring its ambassador to the troubled country home.
And for Ambassador Robert Ford, coming home has long meant returning to...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, National Government, Republican Party
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Panetta tells Naval Academy graduates to look to Asia-Pacific
With Osama bin Laden dead, the war in Iraq over and the war in Afghanistan winding down, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told graduating midshipmen Tuesday to prepare themselves for "one of the key projects" of their generation: building American...Tags: NATO, Annapolis, United States Naval Academy, Singapore, Al-Qaeda
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Vets offer vets advice on startups
When Justen Garrity left the Army for the business world, his five years as an officer, experienced in combat, engineering and leadership, mattered little to prospective employers. "The deck is stacked against the military in this job market," said...
Tags: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Snow Storms, Employment Opportunities, Business, Employment
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Obama foreign policy a disaster
I salute The Sun and its writers for their most comprehensive and informative editorial, "Honest accounting needed," (Oct. 12) and for bringing the Benghazi attack and its aftermath to the attention of your thousands and thousands of readers. However,...Tags: Barack Obama, Christopher Stevens, U.S. Embassy, Libya, Al-Qaeda
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10 years after Dawson killings, uneven results in Oliver
The word of the week, "hope," was written on a whiteboard for East Baltimore students — part of an after-school program on the site where an arsonist killed Angela Dawson, her husband and five of their children a decade ago. The children who come to...
Tags: Justice System, Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Shootings, Criminal Laws, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Ehrlich is wrong on U.S. policy in the Middle East
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column ("The Obama doctrine: Passivity where leadership is needed," Oct. 14) continues to present a flawed ideological position on the Middle East when a heterodox view is in order. We entered the Middle East and North...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Iran, Islam, Wars and Interventions, Hamas
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Military can take a toll on women's health
Saddled with student loan debt, Dr. Laura Herrera joined the Army Reserve to help pay off medical school bills and perhaps get a chance to see the world. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hit shortly after she enlisted, and her military career took an...
Tags: U.S. Army, Respiratory Disease, Women's Health
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