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Former Army Green Beret pleads guilty to espionage charge

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

Veteran surprised in Nashville with mortgage-free home

By CHRIS GADD and The Tennessean - Associated Press

Fallen soldier’s family receives new home in North Carolina

By BEN SESSOMS and The News & Observer - Associated Press

Israeli air defense system Iron Dome takes out rockets fired from Gaza near Sderot, Israel, Saturday, May 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ** FILE **

U.S. Army testing Israeli anti-missile system

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A marker commemorating the service of Sgt. William Carney, a former slave who served in the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment and became the first African American Medal of Honor recipient, is displayed outside the new National Museum of the United States Army on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Fort Belvoir, Va. The museum opens Wednesday, Nov. 11 after more than a decade of that panning and fundraising. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)

National museum dedicated to Army debuts on Veterans Day

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

In this file photo, former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane, speaks to activists gathered at the State Department before a march to the White House to call for regime change in Iran, Friday, June 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Pentagon personnel changes not a sign of turmoil, former top general says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller attends a Veterans Day wreath laying ceremony led by President Donald Trump at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller visits new U.S. Army museum

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

As visitors emerge from the trench-like entrance of the Nation Overseas Gallery, cast figures, lighting effects, imagery, and sounds of distant battle recreate a settingþÄîbased on a famous photograph of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Viewed atop a glass and steel bridge, splintered trees and advancing American Soldiers maneuver amidst the battle wreckage. The film shown here plunges visitors into scenes of trench warfare and relays the U.S. ArmyþÄôs contributions to the war effort. Nearby a 1917 FT-17 tank, against a backdrop of recruiting posters, augments the experience. (National Museum of the United States Army Photo, Spc. Ian Miller)

National Museum of the Army opens on Veterans Day

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Voters wait in line outside the Bucks county government building in Doylestown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Some said they received word that their mail-in ballots had problems and needed to be fixed in order to count. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)

Trump ‘army’ of poll watchers led by veteran of fraud claims

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and GARANCE BURKE - Associated Press

Voters wait in line outside the Bucks county government building in Doylestown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Some said they received word that their mail-in ballots had problems and needed to be fixed in order to count. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)

Trump ‘army’ of poll watchers led by veteran of fraud claims

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and GARANCE BURKE - Associated Press

In this June 6, 1944, photo, U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, gives the order of the day to paratroopers in England prior to boarding their planes to participate in the first assault of the Normandy invasion. (U.S. Army Signal Corps via AP)

Army recruits first to get retro WWII-style uniforms

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 31, 2010, file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Drone wars: U.S. military maneuvers to defeat enemy unmanned aircraft

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Maj. Evan Adams pitches his idea of a new mobile app to manage training areas on bases in real time on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, at Fort Campbell, Ky. Adams, who is assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, won round one of the competition. The Shark Tank like competition is aimed at sourcing new ideas from untapped areas of the Army. (U.S. Army via AP)

New program allows soldiers to innovate from the bottom up

By SARAH BLAKE MORGAN - Associated Press

A U.S. Marine assigned to Special Purpose Marine-Air Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, operates a Battelle Drone Defender V2 during counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) training at the Baghdad Embassy Compound in Iraq, Oct. 9, 2020. The C-UAS training focused on the fundamentals of detecting and deterring threats posed by UAS operations. The SPMAGTF-CR-CC is a crisis response force, prepared to deploy a variety of capabilities across the region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Artur Shvartsberg)

Drones arms race under way as rivals deploy cheap UAVs

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, recent Army basic combat training graduates have their temperatures taken as they arrive at Fort Lee, Va, on March 31, 2020, after being transported using sterilized buses from Fort Jackson, S.C. COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on military recruiting, shuttering enlistment stations around the country and forcing thousands of recruiters to woo potential soldiers online. Recruiters have had to abandon their normal visits to high schools and malls, and instead rely almost exclusively on social media to reach young people. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

Project Convergence tests new tech for new wars

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this May 24, 2017, photo, Tom Shull, CEO of the Army &amp; Air Force Exchange Service, talks to the media while inside the Exchange, at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) ** FILE **

Overseas military students to receive free school meals

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Navy midshipmen march before an NCAA college football game against Army, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) **FILE**

Army-Navy game in December moves from Philadelphia to West Point

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Ryan McCarthy, at the time nominated to be Secretary of the Army, speaks during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Army vows to spend big to right troubled housing system for troops

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Soldiers participate in live-fire gunnery qualification training at the Orchard Combat Training Center in Idaho, Feb.14, 2019. (U.S. Defense Department photo)

U.S. Army eyes next-generation vehicle to dominate the battlespace: The drone tank

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times