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FILE - In this April 16, 2016 file photo, Mexico's Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda salutes soldiers at the Number 1 military camp in Mexico City. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard wrote in his Twitter account Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau had informed him that Gen. Cienfuegos has been arrested in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Arrest of former Mexican defense minister shakes military

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

This Nov. 5, 2009, file photo shows the entrance to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas, near Killeen, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Army amends AWOL status after summer of missing soldiers at Fort Hood

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2009, photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Army signs $87 million deal for latest tank killer

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, left, Army Gen. Joseph Martin, vice chief of staff, center left, Ryan McCarthy, Acting Secretary of the Army, center right, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, participate in the Dignified Return for Sgt. 1st Class Elis Barreto Ortiz, 34, from Morovis, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Ortiz was killed in action Sept. 5, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ortiz was supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Army to spend billions on barracks upgrades

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires its 120 mm smoothbore cannon during a live-fire event as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2015 in Jordan, May 9, 2015. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Devin Nichols/Released)

Tanks future on battlefields in doubt due to drones, rockets

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**

Army hits goals for recruitment despite coronavirus strains

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Army: No requests made for use of troops around election

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

U.S. Maj. Gen. James C. McConville, center, visits troops in Jalalabad, base east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

Gen. James McConville, Army chief of staff, cleared following COVID-19 quarantine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - This Aug. 2, 1944 photo, courtesy of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, shows members of the famed WWII Army unit Merrill's Marauders less than 75 yards from enemy positions, on display during a gathering of remaining members, family and history buffs, in New Orleans. The unit that spent months marching and fighting behind enemy lines in Burma has been approved to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress' highest honor. Nearly 3,000 soldiers began the unit's secret mission in Japanese occupied Burma in 1944. Barely 200 remained in the fight when their mission was completed five months later. (U.S. Army Signal Corps via AP, File)

WWII jungle fighting unit approved for congressional medal

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

File - In this Monday, July 27, 2020 file photo, Israeli medical workers operate a ventilation machine on a training mannequin during an exercise of the new COVID-19 department at Rambam Hospital in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Israel. The Israeli military opened a new coronavirus unit in a converted parking garage at the hospital in a first-of-its-kind effort by the army to assist the country's overloaded health care system, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israeli army teams up with hospital amid new COVID-19 crisis

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Thai army criticized for alleged political use of Twitter

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON - Associated Press

Cunningham inches back into public as Army confirms probe

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Lupe Guillén, left, and Gloria Guillén, Vanessa Guillén's sister and mother, speak during a news conference about the &quot;I Am Vanessa Guillén Act,&quot; in honor of the late U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén, and survivors of military sexual violence, during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

New Mexico activists to hold rally on ‘Vanessa Guillen Act’

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U.S. Army soldiers from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division arrive at COB Nolan after a foot patrol, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Army recommends soldiers ‘take naps whenever possible’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal has said President Trump is immoral and doesn't tell the truth. Mr. Trump responded by saying Gen. McChrystal is known for his "big, dumb mouth." (Associated Press/File)

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former Afghanistan commander, endorses Joe Biden

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This June 17, 2014, photo shows an entrance to Fort Sill near Lawton, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) **FILE**

Army recruits save another private’s life in boot camp

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank. (image: Wikimedia Commons)

Marine tankers transfer to Army Guard after USMC restructuring

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Family of Army soldier alleges foul play involved in death

Associated Press

President Donald Trump awards the Medal of Honor to Army Sgt. Maj. Thomas P. Payne in the East Room of the White House on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump awards Medal of Honor to Sgt. Maj. Thomas Payne

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this image from video provided by the U.S. Army, then-Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Payne is interviewed as a winner of the 2012 Best Ranger competition at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 16, 2012. Payne will receive the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military’s highest honor for valor in combat, for actions during a daring 2015 raid in Iraq that rescued about 70 hostages who were set to be executed by ISIS militants, The Associated Press has learned. Sgt. Maj. Payne will receive the honor in a White House ceremony on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Lori Egan/U.S., Army via AP)

Thomas P. Payne, Army Ranger, to be awarded Medal of Honor for hostage rescue mission

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times