Five athletes from Tufts University’s men’s lacrosse team are in the hospital with a serious and life-threatening muscular disorder after a workout with a U.S. Navy sailor who recently graduated as a Navy SEAL.
A dozen members of the men’s lacrosse team were diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis after taking part in the workout on Monday, Sept. 16, a spokesman for Tufts University confirmed with Task & Purpose. Five of those athletes were hospitalized due to the severity of their conditions; Tufts said that number could change although as of press time it remains only five.
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Eight decades after the Allies jumped into the Netherlands in a failed attempt to seize a path into Germany, hundreds of paratroopers once again descended into Arnhem. Soldiers from more than a dozen NATO countries parachuted onto Ginkel Heath, outside of the Dutch city on Saturday, Sept. 21, commemorating the same jumps done by the Allies 80 years ago during Operation Market Garden. The jumps culminated a week of memorial events for the mission, a failed attempt during World War II to secure an invasion route into Germany.
A former U.S. Army soldier who posted a video to YouTube threatening to commit a mass shooting at Fort Irwin will spend 24 months in prison. Christian Beyer, 42, was formally sentenced on Sept. 19, nearly a year after he shared his intention to sneak onto the base and murder specific soldiers.
The two-year sentence comes three months after Beyer pleaded guilty to sending threats via interstate communication.
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In the days and weeks leading up to January 6, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was moving in lockstep with the political anxieties of top Democratic leaders.
These Democrats grew anxious as over 140 House Republicans planned to contest the election results during the electoral college certification that day.
By Jake Smith | Daily Caller News Foundation
The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.
PILLAR Deployment Retreat has offered camaraderie, information, and entertainment to nearly 5,000 military spouses and significant others since their first retreat five years ago. The goal? To support spouses and significant others experiencing — or anticipating — a military separation, like deployment, TAD/TDY, or geobaching.
“Deployment is a stressful time for military families. We want to make this season of life one that is transformative and healthy,” Becky Hoy, Army spouse and Co-Host of PILLAR whose family is currently stationed in Hawaii, shared.
The U.S. Army soldier who fled into North Korea last year was dishonorably discharged from the military and sentenced to a year in confinement, following a guilty plea on Friday.
Pvt. Travis King, 24, pleaded guilty to five of the 14 counts against him on Sept. 20 at Fort Bliss, Texas. The military judge dismissed the other nine counts. He was released a free man as well. U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Rick Mathew, the military judge overseeing the court martial, agreed that King’s time spent in pre-trial confinement in Otero County jail in New Mexico counted towards his sentence.
Eric Landry, et al., Military Review
Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought.
Marine Corps Compass Points
If ever a section in a document to be signed by the Commandant needed to be scrubbed by his staff, it is this one.
Lee Ferran, BrDefense
The introduction of a private investment fund into such a long-term and infrastructure-intensive national security project is rare, but the Navy said there are…